Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 9, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion of Quality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published Dally Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 Cartton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. Authorized As second Dass matter by the Post office department. Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. Shane Mackay John Sifton r. S. Malone publisher and vice president executive editor associate Western. Peter Mclintock Winnipeg monday september 9, 1963 wave of the future if As present reports have it or. Pearson intends to or the United nations a Learger and More flexible Canan Force for duty with the in anywhere in the world will have the support of Many canadians. For this is an a in which Canada has made and can make in future Ery substantial contribution to world peace without the Mystic political overtones that sometimes attend other sects of this country s military policies. The prime minister will not of course be breaking new found if he puts Forward this suggestion when he attends in general Assembly later this month. Or. Pearson s largely responsible for the establishment of the in a Regency Force in Egypt at the time of the Suez orce in which canadians continue to play an important e. Canadians have also served with the in in other Ace keeping operations including the Congo and More gently in Yemen. For some years this country has main Ned a battalion of soldiers for in duty Ori a stand by Sis and certain personnel in various units particularly Ose of the administrative corps have been held in Readi iss for in duties. Or. Pearson s proposal would be an of the contribution Canada is already making id this corresponds fairly closely with a statement made fore the commons defence committee earlier this year the external affairs minister or. Martin when he said the new phase on which we May be embarking shortly by offer new opportunities for developing the inter nation peace keeping machinery envisaged in the charter. The Eblem for a country like Canada will be to decide How sch of our limited military resources to put into the torrent forces which will have to be maintained for a in time to come and How much to devote to developing Ter National machinery for the preservation of peace con ious that such machinery probably represents the wave of this statement was reported at the time to be line with defence department thinking on the possible to abolishment of a Tri service Multi purpose conventional military Force that could be used in a number of roles Par ulary on behalf of the in. It May thus be that Canada s future defence policy will Ace less emphasis on this country s contribution to the est s deterrent forces and More on our contribution to a Ter National peace Force. But while International peace Ping machinery May be As or. Martin put it the wave the future that wave is far from cresting yet. What or. Sarson May suggest is another step towards the ultimate in Active of a world peace Force but the goal is in present far Distant. As or. Martin warned the Evo Tion of permanent in peace keeping machinery is still ome years any proposal that or. Pearson makes May therefore a disappointment to those who would like to see a per Anent in Force set up immediately. But the idea that is country and others maintain a larger part of their res on a stand by basis for in duties is a practical step wards an International peace Force and is As much As n be hoped for in the present realities of International fairs. This has been recognized by president Kennedy id two years ago proposed that As a towards the United nations All member nations Ould earmark special peace keeping units within their med forces to be quickly available when the organization eded them member nations would also provide in and me for the support of such units in the Field. This is also in keeping with the views of the late in Creary general or. Dag Hammarskjold who believed rely that the in must base its planning for peace keep g operations on the principle that the actual kind of Force i be used in any emergency must depend on the nature of lat emergency. In his words in each new conflict Situa on in which the United nations might be called upon to Terpene with military personnel the nature of the actual required and its Para military aspects would determined by the particular needs of the situation and uld not therefore be anticipated in Advance. A nuclear United nations Force of the Type generally envisaged would without great practical or. Hammarskjold s opinion was that the in should set up a permanent peace Force but should make a a cements to get military forces from member countries Lickly to meet a specific situation As it arose. The Situa on today is not such is to change this recommendation until such time As substantial Progress has been made wards International disarmament the most effective con i Button in members can make to International peace is follow along the lines that or. Pearson is said to favor. Me Day this concentration of military strength from munitions Loose knit As it May be at first could become the Jse of a truly effective International peace Force. A Mobius strip appears to have two sides Bur in fact has Only one lessons from the British tories or Churchill s puzzling Mission 0 to Tawa Churchill i. Gordon a wandering by Maurice West pm conservative scholar is now in Britain on a Mission which has caused a Good Deal of puzzled speculation in the National capital. The former minister apparently intends to study at first hand the methods and organizational technique of the British conservative party. There seems to be general agreement that or. Churchill a strategist who achieved sur prising Success in 1957 and 1958, is the right Man for this Mission if the Mission has much to offer. One can also understand or. Churchill s in tense interest in a British conservative party which has enjoyed since the first world War a political domination comparable to that of the liberals in this country. No doubt or. Churchill will be courteously received at the conservative Central office which is staffed by extremely Well mannered and competent people. But his Welcome May be somewhat less warm than that which or. Dougla can count up on at transport House. In the first place the British conservatives have been sufficiently shrewd to avoid anything resembling sex elusive links with conserva Tive parties in other countries. In the second or. Churchill was a leading minister in a Canadian government which failed to endear itself to or. Macmillan and his associates. The British May of course be disposed to let bygones be bygones. In any event or. Churchill will probably have Little difficulty in pursuing his political studies. By what pro Cess of reasoning however has he persuaded himself that the secret to Canadian Success is now in custody of the Brit ish conservatives this is a Puzzle and it would be a Puzzle even if the world had never heard of Christine Keeler and her curious Assort ment of friends. One would not expect political methods and techniques worked out for a tight Little Island and uni tary kingdom to yield Satis factory results when trans planted to a sprawling Cana Dian federation in which prob lems difficult enough in them selves have been rendered even less tractable by the resurgence of the old struggle Between the founding races. In any Case or Churchill s Confidence in British conservative methods May come at the moment As a distinct sur prise to the British conserva Tives themselves. The Post War Success of or. Macmillan s party May owe something to the Peculiar talents of British organizers but they probably owe a great Deal More to the experiences of British Public. It has Long been accepted that the party can win an elec Tion Only if it appeals Success fully to a Large segment of Middle class voters. Adult education the evening Institute of the University of Manitoba at need by 738 people last inter is launching its Twenty nth year of service this month. In addition in Assoc a on with other groups in the immunity the University isferding courses of special in rest to people in business id Industry. Of special in rest in the latter category courses on Industrial rela on sponsored jointly by be University and organized ibor along the lines recommended by the Tritschler re in 1961. At the same time the win Peg school division has its set for another season adult education both Adamic and practical in tools strategically situated rough out the City. The work be by the school division in jilt education is now on As Tensive a scale Ashi any hey in Canada. Last year Over 1400 people registered for courses indicating they answer a genuine need. I the courses offered by the Phool division and the uni Rosity Are of course com Hemen tary. Even when Deal leg with the same subjects Pey do not duplicate one an her but represent More and is advanced stages of in action. Winnipeg is Fortu ate in having these avenues education open to its citizens Over of whom May be counted on to take advantage of them in the academic year .1963-64. Costly air shows accidents involving Craf stunt pilots flying in tight Low level formation at air shows have now Cost four lives one a civilian in three years yet the air Force apparently plans to continue offering these performances to exhibitions and Rural fairs across the country. Surely the time has come to Call a halt to such needless sacrifice of human lives. Nei ther the dwindling audiences in centres where the shows Are still permitted nor the Craf itself benefits sufficiently to justify the risks not to mention the considerable train ing and replacement costs. The conventional air Force excuse for the shows is that they involve no manoeuvres which Are not a Normal part of Pilot training. This As any civil or military Pilot is nonsense. Aerobatics of the kind carried on by the Golden Hawks can be equal ease and at far greater safety at High altitudes. By end of the 1940s it could no longer do this be cause too Many people were fed up with the restrictions irritations and of socialist Rule. They were attracted to a rival party which among other things promised to build houses faster than labor could build them and did in fact make Good this claim. More remarkable is the conservative recovery after Suez when the return of a labor government was for some time widely expected. But the primary condition of this re covery was the replacement of sir Anthony Eden by or. Mac Millan who did much to res Tore Confidence by his own unruffled Demeanour and Good sense. There have been demands for a change in Canadian conservative leadership but no one can accuse or. Churchill of promoting them. He is considered no doubt correctly to be or. Diefenbaker s right hand Man. It would appear from Vari Ous stories in conservative newspapers that or. Church ill has been impressed by the ability of the British party to maintain its ties with the electorate in the Long intervals Between elections. The British conservatives seem much less confident that they have found the key to Success. Last february the Profumo scandal had yet to burst on the nation. The death of or. Gaitskell had however cast a dark Shadow Over labor prospects. Even so this correspondent found a mood of pessimism among eminent British the period when lord Hail Sham and the group about Bim were struggling to adapt British conservatism to the radically new conditions of the Post War welfare state. This May perhaps explain or Churchill s conviction that the answers to his problems Are to be found in Britain. But the flight to the Liber als during the past year or two seems to have been inspired largely by the conservative failure to go on Gen ideas that carried sir Winston Back and later after Suez restored an almost shattered party. In the circumstances or. Churchill s Odyssey is not easily explained. But this is Strong Industrial. Pressure Japan to Export munitions by Stuart Griffin conservatives. The govern not to con Derry it. One can Tokyo japanese govern ment officials and socialist opposition leaders alike May Hope for talk for work for political military Neutral ism each in their own ways in the continuing East West ideological struggle. But big industrialists manufacturing arms and ammunition Are anything but Neutral. They seek both openly and aggressively to Supply munitions in the free world nations and even some non aligned countries partial to the Western bloc. Tetsuya Senga Secretary general of the defence production committee of Japan s pow Erful federation of economic says if Japan which the free world unhesitatingly Calls both its asian workshop and far East Bast Ion cannot sell arms and am munition Sci foreign nations especially Friendly ones then someone else will surely step Forward and fill the the federation s position is that any Export military sup plies included is desirable especially where Friendly states Are concerned. Japan has every Legal right to. Improve its economic position to assure the kind of political stability that the West finds attractive in a turbulent far East. To improve this position we must increase our ironically Japan s army must constitutionally be called the ground self defence just As the Navy must be known As the maritime self defence Force and the air self defence though of course industrialists would like to see these euphemistic designations altered. One probably not business elements tank weapons howitzers anti aircraft weapons military Heli copters reconnaissance planes rifles machine mortars and ammunition. So far As is known no actual contract has been inked no shipment made but As one High government official phrases it if s Only after All a matter of leaders of the ruling conservative regime the Liberal democratic party Are pushing covertly for these exports All when they wish to refer to this sensitive matter at All As part of the Overall pledge by Premier Hayato Ikeda to double the National income by 1970. The left screams about naked japanese Sabre rattling. Barefaced militarism and reaction arism. Big Busi Ness and its Lea Ders have been overheard to mutter darkly about the spec tre of trafficking As merchants of the left finds partially responsive chords from a eneral Public. Ment was gravely troubled by problems of persistent unemployment closely resembling our own. Its Trade policy was in ruins. Waning popularity was reflected in a Long list of by election reverses. Middle class voters were turning to the liberals in sufficient num Bers ensure labor victories. Or else staying sullenly at with the same result. It is not easy to believe that matters have been improved by miss Keeler s contribution to Island politics. The More general View is that British conservative Stock has sunk to a Post War Low. This makes the timing of or. Churchill s visit mysterious if its purposes Are indeed those reported by the news papers. But study is often Reward ing and or. Churchill May be More prescient than his critics realize. There Are other matters than organization to be investigated in Britain. The Canadian conservative party seemed about two years ago to have run Down its fund of political ideas. At the recent session it seemed Content to exploit not very successfully the More glaring mistakes of a. New administration without offering anything very new or impressive of its own. It is generally agreed that the British conservatives were remarkably Fertile of ideas i Hope for some improvement in a House led by Well trav Elled parliamentarians. With or. Diefenbaker invigorated by his travels on the continent or. Douglas re instructed by his sojourn in Sweden or. Churchill Back from his Post graduate studies in Britain and ministers reporting in from capitals As far removed As Kuala Bumpur there ought to be a saltier Tang to parliamentary debates when the House resumes next month. But no even the known to support the socialist party would do other than Wink at such a breach of neutrality As Selling munitions to nations like nationalist China the Republic of Korea thai land the Philippines and South Viet Nam and else where to Nigeria Egypt the Congo and Rhodesia. Since 1962, Many foreign nations representatives have made inquiries some bold and some Clandestine As to Japan s ability to Supply tanks anti but Japan As a whole whether it likes it or not is be coming More deeply commit Ted to the West politically As its ties strengthen economically. Nationalist China and the Republic of Korea have to Date displayed the most interest in japanese munitions. Taipei has sounded to Kyo out on possible sales of anti tank missiles and if a Deal materializes sales would constitute the first direct Export of a strictly military weapon by Japan since the Pacific War s end. Sales in the korean War were indirect . They were made to the United nations command. The japanese know that munitions Selling is profitable. And since Japan despite its Constitution its bans on armies navies and air forces now feels free to manufacture its own warships aircraft tanks and even Short Range non nuclear tipped rockets and missiles for its own use Why can it not make these for foreign clients too or. Louis Macneice death of a poet merger uncertainty the latest report of the director of research and investigation under the combines act contains some interesting references to the very difficult problem of company mergers. This has caused much concern since it was revealed some time ago that it is practically impossible to obtain convictions in present circumstances. In the View of the restrict Trade practices commis Sion the courts in the Western sugar and Canadian brew eries cases established a much stricter test of Public Detri ment than that taken earlier by the supreme court of can Ada. Specifically the judges insisted that the prosecution must prove that the merger had led to the virtual elimination of Competition almost to monopoly. It was also held that detriment must be shown to flow specifically from the merger itself and hot from any collateral agreements or acts of those involved. In this situation the commis Sion feels that its hands Are tied unless contrary decision can be obtained from the sup reme court. The alternative presumably would be to re controlled Fly pasts and i write the merger sections so slow Speed formation flying Are an acceptable part of any air Force Day show but Low level aerobatics Are unnecessary and should be discontinued before any More lives Are lost. That the indent of the Law May be . But the commissioners Are riot concerned alone with this problem of the uncertainty of the present Law. Behind that is a very much larger question. Does the act tend to frustrate economically Desir Able groupings of Industrial units have the mergers the Post War period tended to strengthen or to weaken the Economy the pro merger View is supported by some economists. On the other hand the com Mission has been led by its own experiences to the opinion that Public detriment does re sult from mergers even Al though they May not in pres ent circumstances transgress the provisions of the Law. Since 1952 the commission has had Power to Institute re search inquiries in the Field of monopolistic situations and practices. Such a inquiry re lating to mergers is now in Progress. It appears from the director s report that the study is Broad in scope. The intention is to examine the factors which have Given Rise to mergers in Canada in the Post War period and to attempt an objective assessment of their measurable consequences for the Economy. This should be of great value and will no doubt Bear fruit when parliament next tackles the complicated and Ever changing problem of combines mergers and restraints of Trade. Pan american games on april 22 last in Sao Paulo Brazil Winnipeg was granted the right to stage the fifth pan american games scheduled for. 1967. On june 20 the City finance committee recommended that be advanced to the As yet in formed pan american games corporation to help it initiate its work. On june 29 mayor Juba ran a newspaper advertisement challenging any Citi Zens who criticized the projected Cost of. The games to make their criticisms known. Of july 13 the mayor announced that the invitation to stage the games had been officially accepted and that the required Bond had been put up by the City and was in the mail since then of the subject of the games there has been an almost silence. If any arrangements have been made they have not been made Public. Any decisions reached have been reached in camera and without fanfare. Yet it will soon be five months since the invitations to stage the games was extended to Winnipeg it is Al Mofit two months since the invitation was accepted and the City s Bondi an announcement of. Some be made by mayor Juba soon. Ashington to the childish spirit of mod Ern pessimism said g. K Chesterton every defeat is the end of the world every scudding Cloud is the Twilight of the gods we saw that whimpering spirit at work in the years of disappointment and negation after the first world War. Then a bolder and angrier note was heard in poetry As the world drifted futilely into an old depression and a new War. The Hamlet grinning Skull of t. S. Eliot was the Emblem of the age and w. H. Auden was its later Prophet. With Auden stood a group of poets and friends that included Stephen spender and Cecil Day Lewis and Louis Macneice. Of this group Edmund Wil son once wrote with that anti British Bias that is his one major defect As a critic that the combination of communism with homosexuality of. An England sub urbanized and americanized in the peculiarly dreary English Way with an English University culture As Rich As the richest fruit cake is something quite new in literature which it took some courage and Genius to yet even Wilson had to admit that they had been Able to say so Well something that had not yet been said at for the richly allusive a Deo the influence of Freud was even stronger than the insights of Marx. With a shaggy sincerity but with Only intermittent inspiration spender protested against the squalor and agony of the age while he assuaged his com plaint by brooding on the intricate mysteries of the Crea Tive spirit. Daiy Lewis has a Genius for the sudden incan descent phrase As Nicholas Blake he can also write de 15y Max Freedman make up his mind about him. He called him a serious Ogden and yet in another mood he could rank him next to Auden in his poetic gifts and Praise him As the master of a Lyric Macneice himself has pro tested against the common View which regards the Auden group As Mere poets of social protest deeply rooted in the miseries of the thirties. He Points out that 15 of the 33 poems which spender published in 1933 were not social or political at All. At least half of Auden s look stranger of 1936 is Remote from politics. The sequence of 29 poems in Day Lewis s from feathers to Iron is a tale of love with its Central theme the birth of a child. Even while these poets were the Rie roes of the Young rebels in England and before Auden made his Home in America they never allowed their Mas Tery of new forms of expression to betray them into a con tempt for the High lineage of English speech. It is no per verse fancy to see in them a touch of Shelley crossed with Pope. Yective stories thrillers and and his. Mystery classical scholarship has Given a Sheen of distinction to his translations of Virgil. Louis Macneice who has just died looked like a poet and occasionally wrote like one., Edmund Wilson could not yet one must remember the worship of mediocrity which disgraced England before the War to appreciate the Liberat ing Power of their laughter and the Scourge of their Sav age satire. This was the age of which Archibald Macleish could say that fascism is capitalism s revenge upon it self an old and dying King eaten by the children his own crimes what was Clear to the poets was obscure to the politicians. These Little men in great places were eager to Parley with evil and for a temporary and fugitive safety they were ready to place England s proud name on a sacrament of Folly. Against this stupid Drift to disaster the voice of Louis Macneice like that of tha other Young poets rang out in mocking or indignant com plaint. They lacked the Anthem notes of Milton or words Worth but they were the Best England had and they spoke to the world for eng Laria when the timid blunders of Chamberlain shut out the soar ing inspiration of Churchill to minister to a nation s bruised spirit when the Lead ers Are false to their Trust is no Small achievement. Their part in these campaigns for Freedom and compassion will be remembered with Honor and will form a Gallant Chap Ter in the history of poetry. It. Will not be obscured even by the daring verbal f Eli cities of their later experiments and interrupted triumphs. Like every honorable poet Macneice worried about the destiny of the English Langu age in a world Given Over to mean ambitions and squalid values. He had a contempt for the votaries of new literary movements and behold they go with what docile arrogance with what lowered but polished sights roped to Gether Alert for falling slates they scale their suburban from this censure he exempted a few poets such As w. S. Graham Laurie Lee Norman Mccaig and w. R. Rodgers. Always he dreaded the Echo and listened for the living voice. So one poet is gone. What does it matter the world will rub along in its old brutal Way. But one Radiant voice is silent one creative mind has vanished and for that loss a few will not be too proud to Grieve. Today s scripture follow p each with All men and holiness without which no Man shall see the lord. Hebrews birthdays mrs. Beatrice Melbourne Winnipeg Beach Man. Born London England september 9, mrs. Mary b. Verock Elly Winnipeg Man. Bora Mitchell ont., september 1877 ;