Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba I f. Liberty of Equality Oulu rights Winnipeg free press Vav Tow l f pc i re an is report f Ftp ppr in in a Linht caned Jarc Leash of to Haie a bitter Terrerr l or he for supposed i ? he f a Romiti behalf in off democratic g Vern Vii. H ii old tract it Fon he Hanri s to f fir a. Off n s or d Shirri admit r the err monday t a claimed tha. He Hough in ref them rep resent papers Virv Friendly to the government had misquoted him lie had Admi Tel the acc Virmary of he quotations Tom the report. Thip is silly. Everyone thai. it possibly could the govern men would bluntly deny that the quotations Are accurate. Since it does Root. U air accuracy can he regarded it beyond serious question. Sooner or later Conel Urive proof she to nth Wil come the government. Will look sillier than Ever for having refused of admit i now. This is of that there is Only one possible explanation burying the or Heads in the Sand. They Are in a Complete panic. Tupy May Well he. But the reasons for panic Are entirely o their for ration. They have been caught out in As scurvy a in Isira trick a Ever used to deceive an electorate. The Only sensible Way to govern for ministers who up no experts ant not supposed to he to Cret the advice of a variety of experts and then make up their minds. The annual estimate of the economic Outlook prepared by economists in the department of Trade and Commerce is one such piece of advice. In deciding their economic policies and especially the budget. Ministers have the Benefit of this report and also of the opinions of a variety of other economists. It is he Job of the Cabinet with the help of a few senior officials to evaluate these opinions and come to their own conclusions As to what should he done that no doubt is How or. Fleming operated in preparing this year s budget and How his predecessors have operated for years. Since Only one decision can eventually emerge it is absolutely essential that i he various opinions expressed by the advisers beforehand should be confidential. Exactly the same sort of process on All he Lime inside any business firm or other organisation. Opinions Are taken and discussed they could no be Frank opinion if hey were All Jjo inc to he paraded either before or after. What becomes Public is simply the final decision. That is the Only sensible Way to make thoughtful decisions after proper study. I vis i january the prime minister deliberately disrupted this proper procedure of government. He produced some care fully selected quotations from Iii Trade and Commerce assessment of the pc Horny in 1957. Treated them As the Yospe Irish and accused his predecessors of deceiving t no Canadian Public because they did Iii publish the economists opinions before ifo7 election. This was never anything bin a trick. The opinions had never been intended to be published. Or. Diefenbaker showed that he understood this As Well As anyone when after the election he refused to publish the economists opinions about this year. By then he had achieved his purpose. Tie had drawn a red herring across criticism of his government s failure to Deal with unemployment. He had gone across the country waving the report which lie claimed his predecessors had hidden because it predicted unemployment before the conservatives came into office. It did to in fact predict what we Sot but. That is by the Way. The emotion of or. Diefenbaker s charge was in the alleged hiding of the report the liberals in 1957 had kept the truth from the people. The quotations from she report make it perfectly Clear i hat again this year the Trade and Commerce economists took a gloomier View of the economic Outlook than the Novern Anont accepted. Rut the government did not Tell the people it will not admit what advice it was driven. In other words Ibe government this year has done precisely and exactly a Hal it excoriated the liberals for doing in .1957. It is right now. Rut in a Cine Rita a now or. Diefenbaker is that he knows that indeed he knew All along thai the liberals were right in. 1937. In at racking them Over the hidden report he was not making a valid criticism but playing a trick a trick on the Canadian people a trick to blur responsibility for unemployment and pet votes which would not have come to him if he had not trumped up in entirely false Issue. That is what with the leaking of the report the government has been caught red handed in. It. Is funny. Rut four years away from the next election the comedy is bitter Sweet. N a lame ton Many streety in greater i n the names were already in Winnipeg have the same name. Use. This situation Jias Arisen be i All is Roqu Ipri is a of fuse the area is Marie up Little co operation Between the. Municipalities. Surely that is not too much to ask for in k number of municipalities each of which is its own Mas Ter. The similarity in Street names is confusing. It leads to misdirected mail Narf de liveries. It causes much Incon i Venice co to visitors. J attempts have been made in the past to bring some order out of the chaos but they have All foundered on the Rock i of municipal Independence. If j the municipalities were joined together in a metropolitan t area the situation would not arise. As it is. The sensible Way around the problem is for a municipality when it is Nain i ing or renaming streets to sub i Mit a list of the proposed j names to the metropolitan j Plain Init commission. T h e i commission could then let the municipal Council know if any Lif Fht of the would ensue benefits that f w 1v Vij ithe Walter Mitchell Case accusations without proof or. Mar Naillan it seems a curious Way of climbing up Ottawa the Cas of Ter Mitchell is becoming a great Issue in the House of. Commons. Or in this has a Cabnet minister speaking in the House of com Mons he is beyond the t reach of re Iau. The right to i declare a private citizen against whom no criminal charge has been Laid to be guilty of a criminal of Fence the Cabinet minister is Hon. Douglas Harkness. The citizen is Walter Mit Cheil of Montreal for 16 years a seasonal employee of the department of agriculture. Not Only did or. Harkness declare or. Mitchell to be guilty. He fired him Vii out Grant ing him a. Hearing. And now when the Case is before parliament or. Backed by the conservative majority refuses to produce any of the documents or affidavits on which he acted the Case has stirred the House of commons deeply. Al ready there have been four discussions including one red hot debate on july 31. More will follow. On july 23, or. Harkness told the House of commons that or. Mitchell had been filed for political partisanship. His Job was that of a checker and Fum Gator at the port of Montreal. By Grant Dexter a. Hark res Sain he had received complaints that or. Mitchell As a Liberal parti san. He would not say from whom Thev had come. And he did no hat the agreed Pience of or dismissing a person for partisanship except on the writ ten complaint of a member of parliament had been Honor a number apparently made such a com plaint. To strengthen his Case or. Harkness went on to say that on november 27, 1957, or. Mitchell had been found to be in Possession of contraband liquor and a Lew Cartons of american cigarettes which he had. Obtained during his employment on ships. Or. Hark Ness added this of course is conduct which we cannot countenance and As a result i or dered his challenged Aslo accuracy or. Harkness i said "1 guarantee the facts Are later on this Day. Or. Mark Ness was asked if the depart ment had Laid any Public charges against or. Mitchell. Or. Harkness replied no it j was decided not to Institute a prosecution in this particular i when asked Why. He i went on one reason was that we did not want publicity j we did not want publicity 1 Shin to the fact that an in pc actor of the department had been engaged in these prac Tioff i or. Said that he. I had affidavits to prove his assertions. But on Luly 30. When or. Chevrier. The Liberal Mem i Ber for Laurier moved for the production of All papers of 1 Fida vits etc., or. Harkness to the astonishment of the opposition refused to produce them. The opposition forced a vote but the liberals and Kcf i were overwhelmed by the Groat j conservative majority. Or. I Diefenbaker not in the capital and therefore took no part in the proceedings. On july 31, the debate was renewed. I it now became evident that the National Revenue depart ment last november had i searched or. Mitchell s a part i Mem for liquor and cigarettes. The department had decided there was no criminal ease and i had informed or. Mitchell that no charge would be Laid against him. The department of National Revenue had not regarded the incident As being of sufficient importance to notify or. Harkness or the department for which or. Mit Chell worked. N a or Dulles revealed Ion Washington at his press conference last thursday afternoon. Or. Dul Les spent nearly All his time answering questions about a Summit conference1 with rus Sia. He. Was not asked to explain or justify the president s decision which sent american troops to Lebanon. Be i this was or. Dulles s first press conference since the Fate Ful decision was taken. Some of the reporters in the room had been privileged to at tend a private session with or. Dulles his anxieties and his Hopes had been hinted cautiously 1.0 them and this know ledge blunted their criticism of the Lebanon adventure. But the Public record on a major act of policy was ban in of any precise and emphatic statement. Fortunately this omission Carl now be corrected for a Senate committee did the work of the reporters. When or. Dulles appeared on july is before the sen Alp appropriations committee he had to answer Many questions about the landings in Lebanon. Ii is the policy of this committee j to release a censored version j of the testimony after a. Decent i interval has passed. The Corn i ments of or. Dulles will re Ward vigilant analysis. At one Point senator Dirk sen asked is the Summit conference out is that a fair Assumption for the foreseeable future i should say the pro posed Summit or. Dulles replied i see. Little Prospect of such a conference in the foreseeable future in Light of current develop 1 j this answer helps to explain j the surly reluctance and Nasty i debating tone which disfigured the president s letters to mos i cow. From the beginning of j the correspondence or. Dulles j was afraid d that the Road to the Summit would turn out to be a pilgrimage of shame and humiliation. By . He took every hesitant step with reluctance and profound d i q u. I e he would never have moved at All if he had not been stirred by the indignant impatience of the allies and by the necessity of presenting an honorable image of America before the forum of world opinion. In such a mood when anxiety whispered constantly in his ear and the voice of Hope was Sil ent or. Dulles could speak neither with Wisdom dior with courage. The result is. Visible j in the Small sarcasm and faltering vision of or. Eisenhower s notes to or. Khrushchev it can be seen As Well in or. Dulles s strange judgment of i the debate in great Britain i and of the criticism heard in j . When senator j Stennis pointed out that there had been a very Large minority vote in the British parliament against intervention in Jordan or. Dulles dismissed this fact As totally without importance by. Remarking that the vote j in England was the purely nor j Mal he added that i British Public life lacked the i tradition of bipartisanship j which guided the actions of Congress in foreign affairs. It was quite common now j he explained for the. Oppose i party to Divide. Parliament j on a question of Confidence j even when the issues affected peace or War. Poor blundering curious of her to believe that the democratic process of vigorous debate had i the right to operate when the country was challenged by really urgent problems. Or. Dulles has certainly managed things much better i Here for he has reduced the complaints Over Lebanon to i Small fretful dimensions and 1 contrived to slip into full part i . Troops versus indirect aggression it by info to s not a an old fashion cd w disturbed what t termed serious misconceptions of or. Dues s press conference last thursday the l i s e n h o wet administration took measures Over the week end to reassure american opinion that it was not seeking to impose narrow limits on the Summit meeting at the secur i Council the criticism of or Dulles Lias been two fold. Outside til if country he has been censured for appointing himself the Umpire and arbiter of the rules of procedure governing the Security Council and of the rights and wishes of smaller coun tries in the United he has been of limit i the american Case while Leav ing Russia free to present the Hio Adest charges or tulips has not made the a hightest reheat from his stale s a i the Piess conference but they have been put in a new and less disturbing con text by a spokesman for the administration who was auth b Pic rent Disen Hower and or. Dulles to make this explanation american policy. This improvement applies however Only to the Domestic head in the i tied states on thursday i Dulles spoke of the Drift to car in Heicht m Russia s use of act he has this my tunes without num. Net by he has it Vei Given a definition of offences against to Taliej j embraces in fact he trans feed this prob Eti to rhe Sec my Council for he hoped the United nations would regard tha Challenge of indirect aggression As More import land than and other problem now facing the Middle East. Once this foundation of Sec u u v was Laid it would be possible to build comprehensive and policies for the political and economic advancement of the Arab world. That was the policy which or. Dulles intended to outline Urc Ortt Nalej he placed so much emphasis on the foundation of Security that the tru Cuip of policy to be built on it became invisible to most i poor Sci s it emerges from the Exposi Tion gun the spokesman Foi the f Isenhower administration that or. Dulles is even More alarmed by the danger s it indirect aug cission Ilian he himself to and Mil at his press conf i a Jap he now sees indeed aggie Sion spreading in a web sub version from algebra to Park Sian unless it is Quick Slop Ped in the Middle East. The United states Ana gently jives Mui a Tea ii Imp Oil Ance to indirect aggression than docs the brutish mint or to speak Mote Preci Ely it hid beater conf Rient. Than London that it will of possible to this Dan set under control he isolating it from other Bibb Lens in the a Lidolt and Guing it in in tiny attention or. Knows that if lie pinkos an against indirect aggie Siori 111 will try to defend Ruwin conduct by engaging m a counter charge against american Imperial in the Middle once this note of imperialism is struck or. Eisenhower will have to Teply with a detailed indictment of policy in the satellite Stales of Ein i u Ope the spokesman Fot the Lis Benhower administration con ceded that such a discussion the Wiit us Staje Foi a discus Sion either of a direct aggie Sion 01 of a lasting settlement of the problems m the Middle Easl who then is Milisen Howei to Lake these the answer is ominous the Piet Dent and or Dulles have in ached conclusion that i must be the plainest and most emphatic Wai Miff that the pm led Stales will use Force if necks said 1o i event the intimidation Anil sub vision of Friendly Stales by the use of political agents and assays is when questioned the spokes Man saw no i no Educ thancy of Agi Cement with Russia on these Points but he thought it would be a Foi if or Khrushchev know Poison All that the was deeply committed to a polic of to distance to uralic a my buies of indirect Aggro Sion and would not shrink from the use of Force in an Oiher Ernet Gerv the slip do Niaj to men is now studying a plan for die Cantue of the Middle 4 Piorum of economic Aid is also under Lesiow ii May be necessary to hold a Summit conf Ince to examine these More constructive measures once the immediate in Jodl to peace Ai Tsig from a direct aggression has been brought under control. The United states now favors a Summit meeting in Gen Eva around August 15, but it will be ready to meet in new York on August 12 if that Date is finally selected. One advantage of a meeting in Geneva is that or. Eisenhower could not stay outside the country Loo Long this fact in itself would tend to limit the Freedom with which or. Khrushchev could indulge himself m his Crit i. Isms of american policy the spokes min the pm Ted slates was thinking of Toad guarantees both Foi the Middle East considered As a regional unit and for the specific countries it it when he As asked if this Guaran tee would Appl to Israel Ako he met ply answered hat is 3 acl was one of the Lou nines in the Middle last he did in Dicato Howe Sci that the Pio posed guarantees would Luke to be much Strong i Han the declaration of sup Poi i Foi existing Fiou lets Given in 1950 Britain Fiance and 1hc unused states after reflecting on this position some Lep Niteis Felt that the spokesman had in fact weakened the impression j left by i Dulles without add ing am hink constructs e i to it i Dulles however is press edit scism he consented thu Oil to have this gloss placed on his remarks in the Hope that in would Sci Icv and j or Tiff american opinion be had his policies. with the. Dilapidated Baghdad pact without exciting More than a surprised Grimace of admiration at his dexterity. As for world opinion or. Dulles saw it As a tangled web of confusion. The neutrals of course were critical but then i hey had never been on Ameri Ca s Side. Other countries were afraid of any Challenge to rus Sia. Still others prefer Iriri a policy of Retreat and conces Sion. Or. Dulles praised him self for refusing to follow Chamberlain s policy at Mun Ich we could have had a. Munich Here right and we would have been very popu is it really so simple three statements by or. Dulles him self helped to explain the world s concern. Take this one for a beginning we Are fac ing up to very serious trouble. It is impossible to know where it is going to is it unreasonable for other nations to question the Wisdom of Ameri can policy when or. Dulles confesses that he does not know where the action in Leb anon will Lead at a later Point or. Dulles said in reply to a question by senator know land that Many countries feel that the fact we stood firm Here in Lebanon May bring a general War nearer. Thai in my opinion is the. Explanation Why Many Are shrinking away from this act Ion which has taken is the desire to avoid anything which May bring a general War nearer such a bad reason for criticism 1 the information about what had happened Given to the House of commons by liberals not by rhe government. Or. Harkness had obtained the facts from the National Revenue department in May and had dismissed or. Mitchell in june. Liberal members produced two letters from senior officials of the department of agriculture in Montreal dated after Hie dismissal testifying to or. Mitchell s Good work and dependability. On All four occasions when the Mitchell Case has been be fore the House of commons or. Harkness has failed to show the slightest comprehension of what he has done. He declared a citizen against whom no charge had been to be guilty of a criminal of Fence. He made this Declara Tion in the Sanctuary of the House of commons. After years of service he deprived an employee of his Job without granting him a hearing. And finally he refused to produce any of the documents on which he had acted. Finally t n reply t o senator Young or. Dulles said we Are in a better Posi Tion to face up to if now. Sen Ator than we will be perhaps a few years from now. When these missile perhaps begin to dominate the in View of his attitude to world opinion or. Dulles has Only himself to blame if peo ple in other countries take this statement to mean that the i Macri Stales was at least As anxious to strengthen its Posi Tion in the Middle East As it was to protect Small nations from indirect aggression by Passia. In All his testimony there was one sentence in particular that rang with urgent conviction. We have never accepted the said or. Dulles nor would we Ever that we cannot Send forces to a coun 1ij at the invitation of its government without the con sent of the United of course he is it Phil. But he forgets thai Moscow is listen ing. Cannot Moscow invoke exactly the same principle to Send her troops to other Conn sues including the troubled Middle East or. Harkness apparently does not understand that a. Private citizen cannot he convicted of a crime in the mind of a minister of the Crown but Only in a court of Law where he has the right to de fend himself. It is notable that or. Diefenbaker. The Champion of human rights left the House of commons. He was not sufficiently interested to bother to listen to the debate. He May have done so on his private radio. Bur his sword slept in his hated the voice was silent. Another distinguished Absen tee was or. Nowlan whose department of National Revenue presumably possesses the facts with respect to i. Mitchell and the Possession of Contra band goods. Or. Now Ian like his Leader was not sufficiently concerned about Justice to help it Forward in this Case. Remembered words from sunday mor Tift by Wallace Stevens Why should she Aive her Bounty to the. Dead what is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams shall she not find ii comforts the Sun in pungent fruit and Bright Green wings or else any Balm or Beauty of the. rib things to be cherished like the thought of. Heaven today s scripture behold the whirlwind of the Popcih Forth with fury a continuing whirlwind it shall fall with pain upon the head of the ;