Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free printed published sunday to inning for press company lit Nitea. Our Victor s1fton president publisher Grant Dexter editor k. S. Vice president we. In Jed general manner Winnipeg saturday june 28, 1952 Protection in his speeches in parliament on Trade As in his addresses Cau on the same subject throughout the country. Drew fused to identify his policy As a system of Protection. Ton in this regard will be Well understood at least Canada. His refusal to use the word Protection should deceive no one. His policy amounts to Protection and to nothing else. It simply is the most recent form of the familiar tory policy announced first by sir John a. Macdonald developed in full rigor by or. Meighen and applied with disastrous results by or. Bennett. It is the policy not the name that counts. Or. Drew indicated the scope of such a policy on june o when he told the House of commons can Only repeat that no matter How Friendly our relationship with the United states May be we should not disregard their Success in following a policy of rational Adf interest. We should not forget that the reason for the immense Success of Industrial product Ion an states has been that the government of that country has at All Umes decided that the first concern of the of the United states was to create employment for the sheers of the United states. The reason they wer. Able to absorb such immense immigration into the United states Over the past 75 years was the fact that they decided that they were concerned first of All with product on in their own ass the Bonds of Friendship Between our two countries believe in the same policy and we think that we should use our resources to create employment not Only Lor the canadians of today but also for those millions of Pote Nual Cana who can come Here if we fully employ the resources w should know that the Prosperity of the Cerne r country. Certainly no one in the United Sta is also o United states does not depend upon High tariffs r Good by an elaborate system of compensation. The genesis of the Schuman plan was by no Means a purely economic calculation. Instead it was conceived As an economic Means of curing the Long rivalry Between France and Ger Many and substituting the com Mon interest which is also the goal of the european army plan. To succeed however the Coal steel Community Wil l have to measure up to severe economic tests will have to produce dividends in terms of human Wel fare. It will Start off with the encouragement of the United states and with very practical Dollar Aid but in the Long run much will depend upon Dom of the various agencies concerned with its administration chiefly the High authority and e Council of ministers. One of the primary difficulties will he to ensure that cartels and protectionism driven out by the front door do not return surreptitiously through the Back win Dows. Again very considerable Powers Are being vested in the High authority and care will have to be taken lest essentially economic problems Are subordinated to bureaucratic politics. Al so to be considered is the rela Tion of the european Community to the rest of the world with the obvious Clanger that protectionist policies May reappear in Ranada and the privy Council Supranational but no less insidious forms. It is encouraging to note that such risks have been Cau Ferie by m. F. He debates in the House phrase i hate was Given of commons would leap Forward with a new sense of vitality if Cabinet ministers and members of parliament would read this new Book with discerning eyes and an under standing heart. It is called work ing with Roosevelt by Samuel i. Rosenman for 17 years Roose velt s most trusted speech writer. It will be considered Here As a Model for the writing of a persuasive speech. The purpose of All responsible speech it should be remembered is not merely to Charm or enlighten or inspire t is to persuade. The audience must want to do what the speaker suggests and for the speaker s reasons. That is the ultimate test. Helped with speeches Roosevelt had a number of people who helped him with his speeches. There were occasional contributions from or. Justice Frankfurter and Dorothy Thomp son. The most important assist to imitate it. There can be no ing it is to compare fairly recognized by thoughtful the Nolan Case doubt that or. Drew knows How mislead Canada and the United states in this Way. That we live on states the Domestic its different spirit which has brought the plan to its present Jitae will ensure its practical Success now that it approaches reality. Era the report that a Cobalt bomb will be delivered to Winnipeg next november for cancer treatment is another reminder of the Bene fits in store for Mankind from atomic Energy once the threat of world War has been removed. The Cobalt bomb rendered radio Active by the atomic pile at Chalk River will place at the disposal of Winnipeg s doctors the equivalent of a 3 million Volt a Ray machine. This is Only one of the uses and probably not the most important to which medical science putting this new source of in confusion which Dar this Issue than the line of reasoning Ergy. To some diagnosis he Tel Wigent guess or Drew s and on ill r fro Lowdus intelligence in John Morley s phrase seems subterranean tunnels with the gleam of an Equi reme at one end and the Mist of a vague conclusion other he has tried to commend his policy of Protection an analogy with the United states which t he admitted to be a mistaken comparison. Neither his method of advocating them has the reason to Lessen its Well found he has to move in vocal premise at one at the co canadians by an himself has later in his policies nor in Canadian Public been Given any ing programme for Canada. Korea Given the present mood of a considerable Section of the socialist opposition in Britain it is not surprising that political repercussions have followed the air at tacks on the Yak. River Power plants. Though the. Churchill government loyally supports the policy followed in Korea or. Eden was plainly embarrassed by the fact that the Washington administration unintentionally As it now appears had failed to inform London in Advance of the decision to undertake such action the Basic Unity which exists on far Eastern Pouch it is unfortunate that this difficulty should have Arisen to disturb the course of British United states relationships. Out of the Exchange of views in Lon Don however it May Well be that positive results will develop. In this connection it has been re ported that prime minister Chur chill is seeking the appointment to the United nations korean command of a High ranking Bri Tish officer who would participate at this time. In View of appears to have worked very Well. The British representative. Who had no command function but acted purely in a Liaison capacity was lieutenant general sir Charles Gairdner. He was a distinguished officer who had led the 6th armoured division in the desert fighting against Rommel and is today governor of West Australia. He was Able to arrange for a smoother flow of in formation to the satisfaction of an exacting or. Churchill. Since general Macarthur is generally considered a difficult commander to work with the Success of this Experiment at so crucial a time May Well incline the British prime minister to resort to it again in the Hope of avoiding such unfortunate misunderstand Ings As have developed Between London and Washington in the past week. Ley Case will be widely discussed reme court act abolishing appeals to the privy Council. In the debates on these amendments among lawyers and laymen. The members of the government reasons Why it has become a celebrated Case Are easily stated. On March 17, 1947, the Canadian government acting through the wheat Board raised the Price of Barley and Oats. This act was validated on april 3, 1947, by order in Council pc. 1292 which in based upon the National emergency Powers act of 1945. The Federal government demanded that some holders of bar Ley and Oats in a particular or designated area of the country roughly the head of the lakes the three Prairie provinces and a part of British Columbia should deliver their holdings of Oats and of Justice had roundly de the privy Council As a co of last resort for this country. However rather than deprive Liti Gants of rights they then posses sed the legislation provided that All cases which had begun before the enactment of the 1949 Amend ment could still be carried on a peal to the privy Council. W _ 41- extant medical Barley to the wheat Board the such As iodine the scientist has opened up a window in the human body through which the diagnostician can observe its functioning. Thyroid trouble for example which would otherwise escape detection is revealed by radio Active iodine. It is not Only in Medicine that the new giant is being harnessed for peaceful purposes. On june 16 in Sarnia or. Carl Nickle ., told newspaper reporters that North America s first atomic Power Plant is now under construction for a chemical company in Michigan. And on june 24, speaking in the House of com Mons or. C. D. Howe said that Canada is approaching the stage where results can be obtained in the use of atomic Power. Or. Howe also predicted that when the new uranium Ore deposits in Northern Saskatchewan Are brought into production this country will become the world s second largest source of radio Active isotopes. The Federal government s Consoli dated Revenue fund. Or. Nolan a Chicago Grain merchant who owned bushels of Barley in storage at the head of the lakes refused to comply with this order and a Law suit followed. Chief Justice Williams of the Queen s Bench first tried the Case. He gave judg ment for Nolan on the specific ground that the National Emer gency Powers act did not give the government the Power to appropriate or take Possession of private , he declared order in Council 1292 to be invalid. Government s Poi cers this question of the govern notably prime minister St. Laur ent and or. Garson the minister the Federal government Fin ally won this Case but at the Price of having demonstrated to the country its own Lack of Confidence in our new supreme court no shrewder blow could have been struck against an institution which or. Garson Page 73 Han equipped for High purpose considering All that members of the Federal government then said about the unsuitability of the privy Council of the need to abolish appeals and to Foster by every possible Means Reliance and Confidence in the supreme court of All Liis what followed was most unexpected. The Federal govern ment itself refused to accept the judgment of its own supreme court. The time was february 16, 1951. As a result of the 1949 Sta tute abolishing appeals to London the supreme court in Canada had been enlarged in numbers and equipped for its High purpose. It was in every Way the court which the government believed to be the right and proper one to make final decisions in All can Adian Law suits. Yet the Federal government itself took advantage of the loophole left in the 1949 statute and appealed in the Nolan Case from its own supreme court to the privy Council. Had this occurred before appeals to the privy Council were abolished no one would h a v e thought twice about it. Had it of Sard second session 1949 had re Urt feared to in these words do we wish to provide our citizens with the prime ele ment in self government of our Dominion that the Law should be one and the same for All its citizens if so Are. We prepared to attain this result in the Only Way pos sible by authorizing As we seek to do in this Bill now before us the establishment of a court with final and exclusive appellate jurisdiction Well sir i submit that there can Only be one answer to these questions and that is an affirmative Glrst of ants were Pfoser Uman Raymond ment s Power to appropriate pro alter these Perty under this act became the Central Issue or the Crux of the Case. But As in All great lawsuits Many other phases of the statute Schoman plan with ratification by Italy the last of six signatories the treaty embodying the Schuman plan is now a political fact. It remains for the Powers concerned France West Germany Italy and the Low countries to name Oil the planning and policy level he Supranational High author British government Council the and keep the British govern men informed. There arc reasons for believing that this particular re port May be somewhat exaggerated. A much More Likely outcome is suggested by past practice m the Pacific theatre. During the Sec Ond world War similar difficulties arose while general Douglas Macarthur was in command. The British working chiefs of staff Washington Felt through the Ity. The ministerial Council the common Assembly and the court of Justice the four institutions which Are to preside Over has intensified atomic research and the emphasis must continue to be on the destructive potential of atomic Energy. It is in spite of this emphasis that some of the atom s peaceful possibilities have already been brought so close to realization and they give us at least a glimpse of the new age which lies in store for a peaceful world. From the Golden books thus the Glydeth by Robert Browning thus the Mayne Glydeth where my love Abic Lelh sleep s no softer it proceeds on through lawns on through Meads argued. Thus chief Justice Wil iams found that the National emergency Powers act was a de act. As he read it the emphasis was on continuance and discontinuance of existing controls. There is compelling Force he said in the argument that t was not the intention of Par lament to authorize the impose Ion of new controls or entirely new measures unless those new measures looked to the Discon nuance of the formed As to the far Eastern course of events. It might have been said then As Earl Alexan Der remarked the other Clay that the people in England have been awfully ignorant of what is Hap Senlin Over or. Churchill corrected this situation during the last War by arranging that a High ranking British officer should be attached to general Macarthur s staff As the prime minister s personal representative. Though the arrangement Vas not widely known at the time it the european Coal steel common on and on whate or befall Ity with these preliminary poll meandering and musical Seal hurdles out of the Way the though the Tiggard pastur we St europeans will be fairly not on its shaven ledge launched on an Experiment aught but weeds and waving of the utmost significance for grasses human welfare and peace. To View the River As it passes. Save Here and there a scam essentially the Schuman plan Patch seeks to create a Large free Trad primroses too faint to catch a weary Bee and scarce it pushes its gentle Way through Strang Ling rushes where the Glossy Kingfisher flutters when noon heats Nare near glad the shelving Banks to shun red and steaming in the Sun the shrew mouse with Pale Throat Burrows and the speckled Stoat where the Quick sandpipers flit in and out the Marl and grit that seems to Breed them Brown As they. Naught disturbs its quiet Way against economic frontiers cartels restrictive agreements tariffs double prices and High Cost production made possible solely by government subsidies. Such a situation obviously cannot be created Over night witness the great difficulties already encountered in the creation of the Benelux customs Union. For example Many of the belgian Coal mines Are High Cost producers which could not survive on the competitive european Market Over a period of years these Are to be closed Down with the losses to the belgian Economy made Moley Robert Sherwood Archi Bald Macleish Harry Hopkins Thomas Corcoran Ben Cohen Stanley High Donald Richberg some of Roosevelt s most famous phrases were suggested by this group or by others. Mole coined the phrase about the for gotten Rosenman suggested the new Ernest Lind Ley thought up bold persistent r o o s e v e 1 wrote the immortal sentence ii his first inaugural address the Only thing we have to Fea is fear this probably was an Echo of Thoreau s nothing is so much to be feared As fear he was Reading Thoreau then Stanley High put economic royalists into the language. Remembers t h sentence this generation o americans has a rendezvous will the credit for it be longed to Corcoran. The memorable warning to nazi subpar shoot at sight Cam from Myron Taylor. The idea o placing the aggressor nations i. Quarantine was inspired by Harold Ickes. The Arsenal of democracy was coined by Jea Monner. The unforgettable o Roosevelt by William bullitt got it from president Wil on. The world is too said Roosevelt to provide adequate iving room for both Hitler and i mention this writes Rosenman because Chur Hiu in talking to us later Sake whoever wrote that sentence i d Ike to take with me to England neither of us said anything at he time but it was Bob Sher you will make a vast mistake however if you conclude that Roosevelt was the servant of his Peech writers. All the evidence proves that the speeches in the ultimate sense were Roosevelt s and else s. They bore the print of his mind the fire of conviction the imagery of his daily speech. Sherwood who be an to work with Roosevelt Early n the War was convinced that he president wrote All his Spee Ches himself because of their identical style. Roosevelt knew he final draft almost by heart. Even then like almost every Ora Tor from Chatham to Churchill in was nervous and excited be fore every major speech. He was not a record reciting other peo ple s words the thunderbolts of is speech vere forged in his own mind and hurled with his own hand. That is Why they hit the Mark. A contrast. What by contrast happens in Ottawa a senior civil servant Able conscientious creative quite properly writes a memorandum to assist his minister. Then the minister in almost every Case gets up in the House and reads this statement even though it has never been constructed As a speech. The speech in Short has never really passed through his own mind. So it quickly Falls out of every one else s mind. These echoes of other people s platitudes must suffer the for tune of sinking to immediate and total oblivion. What a Joy it would be and what a new Day for parliament if prime minister St. Laurent were to ask All his Cabinet ministers to Ponder this Book before they next ventured on a speech. Republican parallel with 1912 . Political conventions t t he Federal government appealed from chief Justice Williams judgment to the Mani Toba court of Appeal which unanimously supported the Wil Liams decision. All the Appeal agreed that order in Council . 1292 was invalid that the National emergency Powers act did not give the fed eral government Power to appropriate or to take Possession of property. Again the Federal government appealed this time to the sup reme court of Canada and again the lower courts were up held. On the crucial Point the supreme court by five judges to two decided that order in Council . 1292, because it sought to appropriate or to take Possession of property exceeded the Powers conferred on the government by the statute upon which it was based and therefore was invalid. Now came the most surprising development in the Nolan Case. In 1949, parliament on the motion of the Federal government enacted an amendment to the sup appeals were abolished in 1949 but before the supreme court was enlarged and reorganized and made into precisely the kind of court which the Federal government believed in every Way adequate As a court of last re sort there would have been sur prise but also understanding. But to carry this Appeal against the enlarged and reorganized sup reme court must be regarded As a most extraordinary act. On May 20, last the privy Council decided that All three Canadian courts had been wrong in their judgments on the Nolan ase wrong in their views about the National emergency Powers act and order in Council . 1292. Judgment was Given in favor of he Federal government. O e United states system of _ political conventions now approaching the usual quadrennial Climax May appear strange to foreigners. While the direct election of the president which the founders never intended be comes in practice the Choice of two candidates by a Small majority of some 600 professional politicians nevertheless the re sults Are generally satisfactory. The convention system for All its clumsiness its circus like exterior and its deals in the smoke filled bedrooms produced Lin Coln Wilson and the two Roose belts. Not often does it produce a Harding or a Coolidge. The two great conventions immediately ahead differ from those of recent times in their Complete uncertainty. Hardly since the first world War has the convention season opened in such doubt and in the Case of the re publican party in such bitterness. On the democratic Side the forthcoming convention will be the first since 1932 in which the results were not known in and Vance. Once nominated in 1932, Franklin Roose velt was automatically renominated three times afterwards and his successor. Presi Dent Truman had Little opposition in the convention of 194s. Today however having lost its two unchallenged new Deal leaders the democratic party is desperately looking for a Succes Sor and so far has found none generally acceptable. Messes. Stevenson Kefauver Harriman and the others Are All admirable and experienced politicians but none has proved that he has the stature of Roosevelt or Truman. None will enter the convention assured of nomination. None can be sure of carrying the election if nominated. Dangers encountered in what is commonly supposed to be a Republican year after the democratic regime of nearly two decades the opposition party obviously has encountered Dan Gers which could not have been foreseen a few months ago. Two outstanding candidates general Eisenhower and senator Taft have conducted a pre election Campaign of such Force and ran Cor that they May Well split the party fatally. The republicans do not Lack presidential Timber. The real question is whether they Lack the Power to re unify them selves after the present schism t pensions for by c. A. B. Ottawa in the parliamentary discussions of the Bill providing pensions for A which has now been Given third Reading in the House some interesting Points were brought out. In Brief the Bill provides that each member shall contribute six per cent of his session Al indemnity about which the government will match. The full pension of about per year becomes payable after contributions for 17 sessions. But there Are 89 .s out of the 26 present membership who could qualify under that Rule by paying up Back contributions As soon As the legislation takes effect and thus be in line immediately for a pension this Means that by paying the parallel Between this year s Republican Conven Tion and that of 1912 is interest ing. In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt re ent wed politics after an a Kangaroo such charges Are not a Happy beginning of a Republican year. As a generally democratic news paper of great Power now sup porting general Eisenhower the new York times observes that the Republican party May defeat itself at the polls if the Public s convinced that its convention Lias been sewed up by senator Taft in Advance. Steamroller says the times will alienate Many Taft republicans and will drive the Eisenhower republicans in droves away from the ballot boxes. And obviously the nominee of a rigged Republican convention would attract neither the independents nor Tho democrats who must be attracted if the next president of the United states is to be a member of the Republican under the Best of conditions the Republican party faces a formidable task in winning the election even when the democratic government is old in office and has suffered serious reverses of late. There Are several million More regular democratic than Republican voters in the nation. To win a Republican candidate must be Able to Cut deeply into ome a member with 17 Back sessions to his credit could hereafter draw a pension Lor life. Birthdays William Ivens Winnipeg born Barford England june 28, 187s. William r. Matheson Winnipeg born k i 1 d o Nan Man., Jurie 28, 1876. J. S. Reid Melita. Man. Born Eganville ont., june 28, 1862. Allen is Rael Stockton Man. Born Waterloo county ont., june 28 1875 w. D. Halliday Lac Dubonnet Man. Born Ren Frew county ont., june As 1874. Today s the lord said unto Cain where is Abel thy brother and he said i know not am i my brother s sence of four years to Challenge his successor and protege presi-1 Dent William Howard Taft. The president controlled the Machin Ery of the convention and Defeated Roosevelt who then launched his own Bull Moose party winning four million votes to Taft s three and a half Mil lion. This split wrecked the re publican party in the ensuing election and brought Wilson to the White House. Today the son of president Taft controls the convention machinery has used that control with skill and expects it to de liver the nomination to him. His challenger general Eisenhower is at a grave disadvantage As an Amateur in his Lack of experience and organization. He believes that the Taft forces Are rigging the convention again him especially in the famous Texas delegation where two sets of delegates been chosen and one or the other must be seated by the National commit tee or on Appeal by the Conven Tion itself. General Eisenhower Campaign manager Senato Lodge accuses the Taft Wing o the democratic vote and to Cap Ture most of the Independent ote. Split question in the View of general Eisen Ower s supporters senator Taft Annot Hope to succeed even Vith a United Republican party behind him. If the party is ser Ousby split by the rejection of Jeneral Eisenhower at the con mention and if in addition the convention appears to have been rigged by the professional Politi ians senator Taft As the times ays would face almost certain defeat. Apart from his own prestige general Eisenhower s last minute strength will lie in the Conven Tion s realization of this danger. With him the party can be Al most certain of winning. With senator Taft it risks another four years of opposition. There is no suggestion that general Eisenhower if he fails in the convention will run independently As Theodore Roosevelt did in 1912 but the inner split in the party now publicly proclaimed could easily produce the same re in the election. Therein lies ;