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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published Dally except sunday by the Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Canton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. Authorized As second class mat Tor by. The Post of face department Ottawa and Lor payment of postage in Cash. John Sifton shake Mackay president executive editor r. S. Malone .1 publisher and vice president associate Western Peter Mclintock Winnipeg Friday february 28, 1964 second Section pages 9 22 How much Confidence having failed to defeat the pea Sori government in a series of non Confidence votes the opposition parties should let parliament get on with its business. Few canadians will wish to see the nation s affairs bogged Down in parliamentary guerrilla warfare. Few except or. Diefenbaker desire an Early election. That being so the government deserves the Opportunity to proceed promptly with its session Al program. The government would be unwise however to discount the significance of these votes. Almost the entire opposition was prepared to declare its Lack of Confidence even at. The risk of precipitating the immediate dissolution which not Many members really wish to face. The important fact emerging from Ottawa this week is that the government s hold on parliament is still weak and evidently has not been strengthened since the collapse of last Summers budget. Confidence has been voted by a Nar Row margin but it can be withdrawn without notice if the second budget is no More satisfactory than the first. That warning must surely make the government real ize that a larger test lies immediately ahead and will appear on budget Day. How should the government approach its test broadly speaking it has Only two options. It can try to Curry favor with the opposition by spending recklessly and postponing any serious attempt to put the nation s finance in order. Or it can take the hard and honest course of economizing reducing the rate of deficit and risking defeat in parliament on a sound policy. If it chooses the first option probably it can survive for a time anyway at the Cost of worse budgetary disarray a further loss of Public Confidence outside parliament and another blow to the nation s credit throughout the world. If it decides instead to introduce a courageous budget and thus to implement its own promises it will Force the opposition to Stop play acting and take a definite stand on the vital issues now before the nation. Principles will replace manoeuvres. And if in this showdown the government is compelled to take its Case to the people they will know at last who is trying to Salvage their finances who is ready to sink them. Or. Pearson has often said that he would conduct the government As if it controlled a majority in parliament. So in some areas he has but All these areas so far have been marginal. The Central Issue of finance where All other issues Are finally focused has been mismanaged and Eva ded the problem worsened by delay. While there is no use crying now Over spilt budgetary milk or. Pearson will earn and undoubtedly will receive a True vote of Confidence in the nation with or without an election Only if he dispels the misgivings raised by some of his colleagues Only if he makes Good his pledge and governs strongly. On budget Day the people will know his intentions and judge him accordingly. Meanwhile a technical Victory in parliament Means no More than that the govern ment has been Given a second Chance to Frame a Basic policy. Exporting jobs the Cabinet at Ottawa has j approved a recommendation of the National Energy Board that Ontario Hydro be allowed to Export surplus Power to Minnesota in increasing quantities and for a longer period than has previously been permitted. The Cabinet s decision is of particular interest to the fort Frances International Falls area for the Power to be exported is sold to the Ontario Minnesota pulp and paper company which has paper Mills in both towns. But it is of general interest to All canadians for this particular Case embodies All the apparent benefits and the real have always at tended the Issue of Power exports. It is Only recently As a result of the Columbia River treaty negotiations that Ca Nada has reversed its traditional policy that Hydro Power should not be sent out of the country on the ground that once Power starts flowing across the Border it cannot be recovered. There have of course been exceptions to this policy. But in the past licences for Power exports to the uni Ted states have been on a year to year basis. In the Deci Sion just approved by the Ca Binet exports Are approved not for a year at a time but up to on a rising scale each year. In seeking to sell Power across the line Ontario Hydro used All the Standard arguments. It has undertaken an impressive expansion program which will be finished in j.970. It will Over the next few years generate More Power than it can sell through its Normal channels. With a sur plus on hand it makes sense to sell if the customer is across the International Boundary that should make no difference. Hydro succeeded in persuading the Energy Board that there would be enough Power to meet the Export demand and the Domestic requirements of the future. The american pulp and paper company could t agree More for this gives it the cheap Power it needs to oper ate and expand. But the communities of fort Frances and Kenora and the Union repro presenting the Canadian employees of the company were less with Good Rea son. The biggest businesses in fort Frances and Kenora Are the local Mills both Are owned by the Ontario Minnesota company. Much raw and Semi processed lumber from Ca Nada goes across the Border to to finished in the company s Mill in International Falls. This Means to people on the Canadian Side More jobs and larger payrolls in the . Plant across the line and this is achieved they suspect at the expense of the Canadian Mills. A larger Supply of cheap Canadian Power for International Falls will aggravate this situation they fear. The Amer ican Mill will grow at the expense of the Mills on the Ca Nadian Side. In other words As Well As exporting Power Ca Nada will be exporting jobs Money and Prosperity. Even if the Energy Board is convinced that there is lots of Power for everyone who can say How Long this situation will last there is a tendency for Power importers require ments to keep on growing. And if International Falls becomes almost entirely dependent on Ontario Power what happens when Ontario needs that Power for itself All glib talk to the contrary Power exports Are rarely recoverable and if 20 years from now the . Mill is operating on Ontario Power Ontario Hydro will not dare withdraw it. It May be argued that per Mission to Export Power is within the government s new policy. But surely it is one thing to plan on the Export and Sale of Power when a new development is being built where everything is starting from and quite an other thing to Export Power in growing quantities when there is a Chance that this Power May be needed at Home some Day and when the Export in effect loses jobs for canadians no one begrudge More jobs to the United states. But it is not the responsibility of a Ca Nadian Hydro company and a Canadian Energy Board to boost american Prosperity at the expense of Canadian workers. Remembered words from of boldness by Francis Bacon Mahomet made the people believe that he would Call a Hill to him. The people assembled. Mahomet called the Lull to come to him again and again and when the Hill stood still he was never a Whit abashed but said if the Hill come to Mahomet Mahomet will go to the speak one Way vote another conservative War of nerves Ottawa an outsider observing the proceedings which led up to the govern ment s two easy victories in the House of commons on thursday night might have been pardoned a sense of utter bewilderment. Very Little of what was said had much relation to the conservative amendment and Cre Dit Ste sub amendment theoretically under discussion and there was a curious discrepancy Between some of the arguments advanced and the subsequent votes of the speak ers. Great latitude is of course traditionally permitted in the debate on the address in order that members May be free to ventilate the grievances of their constituents. This Means in practice that a member does not have to address himself to a particular amendment Al though he is expected to stand and be counted when the Divi Sion Bells ring. But an amendment is in effect a collective grievance put Forward by a particular party a proposition of such importance to its sponsors one would assume that party members should be prepared to fight for it tooth and Nail. The conservative Amend ment calling for an Extension of family allowances to Chil Dren 16 to 18 years of age who still attend school was moved by Maurice Western by or. Ricard a former minis Ter. Apart from observing that he had been a school trustee and knew the problems of fathers or. Ricard studiously ignored his own motion. Not much was added by three succeeding conservative speakers who dwelt on Mari time needs the grievances of Quebec and the shortcomings of the pension plan. But the credit stes mean while had moved their sub amendment deploring the government s failure to increase family allowances As living costs advanced. This said or. Monteith was frivolous and it would also defeat the Pur pose of the conservative amendment for reasons which to explain. On the other. Conservative proposition was in it would Confer immense social and economic benefits upon this country and the argument for it was or. Monteith offered no Esti mate of its Cost to the trea sury which would obviously be Large. How could this self evident argument be squared with that advanced Only a few hours before by or. Balcer who is regarded by Quebec conservatives As Deputy Leader said or. Balcer is this not the time for the emphasis to be switched in favor of provincial spending and for the relative curtail ment of Federal and should this curtailment not be exercised in particular in regard to any new Large spending projects in the Federal or. Balcer voted for the conservative amendment. So did the nip members with the exception of two who Are resolutely resolved to stand against any proposition How Ever sacred to the party which might by upsetting the govern ment bring on another election. But or. Winch who is not in this position upset or. Monteith the conservatives had failed to implement their proposal during their six years in office. Or. Thompson and his so Cial credit band who have sometimes seen in or. King s introduction of family allow ances a partial implementation of social credit voted against Extension. One can have too much of a Good thing or a bad thing like dissolution. The Liberal Case was simple. As the conservatives said the in a disturbed society the army often emerges As the one organized source of Power. This was True of ancient Rome and it. Has been particularly evident in present Day Africa where the old col onial regimes have collapsed and new or More often the old tribal forces Are groping to grasp the elusive pattern of the future social order. The Congo was the first example of an undisciplined army sweeping away a care fully prepared but wholly artificial Constitution. It required an International intervention largely financed by the West albeit through the United nations to restore to the Congo some semblance of order. Now the fragile congolese regime is once again on the verge of collapse. However the military unrest did not Stop in the Congo. In february last year the non commissioned officers of the Togoland army Togoland being a former French Afri can Colony seized Power in a bloody coup in which presi Dent Sylvanus olympic was shot dead by the soldiers in legitimate self defence while seeking Refuge in the. United states embassy. Six months later came the turn of the former French Congo and its easy going presi Dent abbe Fulbert Youle. Once again the army this time Allied with the Trade unions overthrew the govern ment. Abbe youve telephoned president de Gaulle at his Home in Colombey Les Deus Eulises asking that the French troops present in the Congo should ensure the continuation of the Youle regime in office. The troops at first had helped to guard the presidential Palace but were with drawn when the revolt grew. Gen. Gaulle rejected the abbe s plea stating that since the Congo was an Independent state the French govern ment was under an obligation to abstain and did in fact abstain from anything which might have constituted interference in its Domestic of Africa s coups president Youle a former cleric who although suspended from his priestly office for entering in Defiance of an ecclesiastical order had continued to Wear the Poutane and Call himself abbe was arrested and the army named its senior officer a Captain its new commander. The revolutionary regime thanked the French government for Refus ing to interfere and reaffirmed congolese Friendship for France and for All Freedom Loving in no time Brazzaville the French Congo capital became a hotbed of communist both chinese and soviet oriented intrigue where plots hatched to subvert the neighbouring former belgian Congo whose capital Leopold Ville is across the River from Brazzaville. Last november it was an other French african Colony Dahomey where the army seized Power under the Leader ship of col. Christophe Soglo commander of the 800-Strong Dahomey Force. The army took Power after thousands of Trade unionists demonstrated in. The streets and set several buildings on fire. But the undercurrents of the unrest were largely tribal. The southerners in and Cotonou the latter the commercial Capi Tal of the country disliked the Rule of the Northern president Hubert Maga and indeed warriors from Northern tribes armed with bows and arrows arrived to protect their presi Dent. Once Gen. De Gaulle refused to intervene. Then came the revolt in Zanzibar where the British re fused to intervene and the mutinies in Tanganyika and Uganda put Down by British forces at the request of the Independent East african governments. Although the events in former British East Africa received far More attention than the mutinies in former French Africa they were ail of a piece the native army either disrupted the civil government As it did former belgian Congo and attempted to. Do in Tanganyika and Uganda or else seized Power at the Behest of the opposition As happened in the former French Congo Togoland Dahomey and1 Gabon. In Gabon however the Pic Ture was changed. Originally the setting was very similar to that of the other with an authoritarian regime preparing a single list election it was to take place on feb. With the opposition silenced and with tribal rival Ries at their Peak. The coun try Independent since 1960, was ruled by Leon m a a close Friend of president Felix Hou Houet Rougny of the Ivory coast a Ope time president of the French Senate. Although or. M a spent Long years in exile he was banned from Gabon from 1933 to 1946 he is a firm Friend of the French. His country is Small its popu lation estimated at about 000, less than that of metro Politan Winnipeg and most of its area of Square Miles is covered by rain for est. However it is a Rich Little country. It exports Wood its manganese mines Are of world importance its Iron Ore de posits Are arh Png the richest and there is Oil. Both France and the United states have Strong economic interests in Gabon also spelled Gaburri and and it May Well have been due to these interests that or. M a was restored to Power by the French forces and the coup of the 400 Strong Gabon army led by a lieu tenant was crushed. The instability of Africa with its proliferation of nations and National armies promises Many More similar coups. Since the action of individual Western Powers re fleets upon the position of the West As a whole Oliie Atlantic allies should reach a joint Accord As to when to intervene in such affairs and when to consider african coups strictly Domestic matters. Neither Brit Ain nor France nor any other Western nation for that mat Ter can longer to isolation. Extension of family Allowan Ces was part of the Liberal program but it was a program for a four year parliament. The liberals were committed to a system of priorities first the Canada pension plan secondly Loans to students then the pro vision of scholarships thirdly the Extension of family allow ances and finally when the Economy could stand it a medi Cal care program. When the divisions came the liberals had no trouble. Nor was any expected because the conservative War of nerves by its harrowing effects on the Small parties tends to help the government. There Are also indications that or. Diefenbaker s Zeal for this a thursday was a Day in j. Which the legislature s deliberations ranged far and wide from Power toboggans now replacing the dog sled in the North to the Rice Fields of China and from errors in the time Magazine reporting on hog Slaughter in Russia to payments for examinations in Manitoba s High schools. It was a Fertile Day for Many imaginations and a productive Day for Many speakers. Of this welter of ideas and profusion of should single speeches out two out standing contributions one for each Side the speech of Gil Das Mol Gat the Liberal Leader in which he replied to Premier Roblin s budget speech and the so minute piece de resistance produced by George Hutton the minis Ter of agriculture. Or. Hutton completed his shall we Call it resume at five minutes to 10, on which accomplishment he was justly complimented by the member for Lakeside who speaking from Long experience told him that after 10 . The Atten Tion of the House is Apt to wander. And indeed hardly did or. Campbell observations when finish his one could discern a member of the front Bench peacefully asleep. It had been a tiring Day. Or. Mol Gat s speech was Well prepared Well documented and although it largely dealt with figures it was delivered with a verve that gripped the House. Or. Mol Gat pointed out that under the Roblin govern mint Manitoba now has the dubious distinction of having the biggest per capita debt of any province in Canada. Every one of us Man woman and babe in arms owes As against Alberta s and sort of _ thing exceeds that of Here one could notice j. M. Froese the Lone social credit some of his followers who Are in no hurry to depart from Ottawa and who. See Little pro fit in synthetic issues. Today s scripture behold the whirlwind of the Lori goeth Forth with fury a continuing whirlwind it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. Jere Miah 30 23. Member visibly beaming. In terms of physical farm production charged the Leader of the opposition Manitoba has increased its volume by 10 per cent while the Canadian ave rage is a 23 per cent increase. Under the dome by f. S. Manor about one half of the National average increase. Or. Mol Gat then proposed a motion of non Confidence in the government., t. P. Hillhouse for the liberals and e. R. Schreyer for the nip debated again whether two government Bills concerning Public utilities meant that the government was divesting itself of ministerial responsibility. Or. Schreyer argued that matters of Crown corporations Are not issues for the and that it is not proper to pester Cabinet ministers with questions concerning Crown corporations. Details of these should be kept out of the House and dealt with in committee. However matters of general policy and of capital Supply should re main the responsibility of the Cabinet answerable to the legislature. This is a constitutional theory which undoubtedly will still be hotly debated in the House. It would require a plow share beaten into a pen and a special supplement to this Page i to do full Justice to or. Hutton s performance. As or. Campbell remarked in the sub sequent debate the minister like the member for Lakeside is Apt to ramble a Little when speaking of a subject As dear to his heart As is agriculture. Or. Hutton did indeed ramble yet never for a moment did he bore his audience. The House was full the members attention rapt and there were Many Good Humoured interjections. Or. Hutton defended the concept of a family farm even though its form May have changed and a family farm May no longer be a Homestead but a very Large undertaking. He spoke of . Farm production methods and said enough was wasted in Manitoba to make another Man Rich. He told the House that . Farmers Are tempted to invest in land Here because they consider Mani Toba a land of Opportunity. And he claimed that More Manitoban depended directly and indirectly on agriculture than Ever before in the history of the province. Hog population has dropped j the ensuing debate was of we heard a great Deal about hogs on this thursday. As to Industrial production Mani Toba stood last year at Only 12 Points above that of 1949, an equally High calibre and proved that whatever Statis tics May say the heart of the legislature is still on the open Prairie. Pearl White rides again you remember Mobutu or this column under the Al above pseudonym is writ ten by a panel of experts on marriage the Canadian Iden Tity the Church Universal Box ing cookery Black magic mental health military affairs Public sanitation eng Lish and associated literature hypnosis foreign affairs and an endless list of important matters. Today military and foreign affairs Are dealt with by two of the panel a paragraph each alternately. Should other matters creep in even to the extent of a sentence or a phrase they represent the work of our expert in that Field. The Absentee columnists Union insists upon this demarcation to ensure full employment for. Our entire panel whether we Are writing or riot. So you remember Mobutu he is one of those african sol Diers who was a lieutenant this morning and this evening is a general of the grand army. You May recall that he arrested Lumumba the Lively former and late Leader of the Congo government. Nobody knew that general Mobutu had been under arrest and condemned to death until the news reached us that he had executed six congolese soldiers for Mutiny. It appears that the Day the congolese arrested and expelled two soviet diplomats some congolese soldiers decided to remove the civilian and military leaders of their country. They do not seem to have had any plans beyond that. This was incompetence or foresight according to your View of Congo affairs. It is interesting however that the present congolese rebels say when we kill the will help the congolese leaders evidently believed that the attempt the civilian and military leadership was hot Home brewed. There is about the attempt a. Flavor that could induce Graham Greene to add the re ports to his collection of clip pings and eventually to his by Shaun Herron collection of novels about Africa. First take 60 soldiers and sic them on the leaders. Divide them up to. Go and with appropriate army chits find the leaders and arrest them. When arrested bring the bound and gagged dignitaries to Livingstone Falls. This proved to be remark ably easy to do in the Case of general Mobutu the com Mander of the army and Vic Tor Nen Daka chief of these purity police. They were taken into custody and spirited to Livingstone Falls according to plan. It was the duty of their Cap tors to throw them into the rapids below the Falls and that would be the end of that. When the soviet diplomats were arrested they were taken to a military Camp for questioning. Mobutu and Nen Daka that evening went along to the Camp to see How things were going. They were seized by a group of soldiers beaten and taken in jeeps to the Falls. Meanwhile Back at the ranch groups of soldiers went out to find and arrest presi Dent Joseph Kas Mvubu and Justin Bomboro who used to be foreign minister and is now minister of Justice. The search for or. Bomboro has a special flavor that be Longs to the Roy Rogers Western without miss Evans but with perhaps a flotilla of cow town ladies. Judge for yourselves. The search party threw roadblocks around the approaches to or. Bomboro s House but he was not no judgment on or. Bom Boko s private life is intended naturally but the soldiers next to sup posed it most probable he would be found. They started a search of the bars and nightclubs. This is a Tough assignment. To be near All that Beer and All those other temptations is hard on the Resolution and it slows Down a search. The searchers sipped the available pleasures from club to club before deciding to search the Homes of or. Bomboro s friends. One such Friend a merch ant and evidently a shrewd Man could not give them or. Bomboro but since they were All spent up he gave them some More Money. They re turned to the scenes of their previous pleasures and decided that or. Bomboro could wait. At Livingstone Falls the general s captors had an after thought. Why not keep Mobutu alive Long enough to beat out of him the full Story of the murder of former Premier Patrice Lumumba so every body piled into the jeeps again and they drove Back to bar Racks. It was a bit like one of those parties where they say let s break in on old Charley while they were working on the general who was tied in a chair like Nen Daka or the Good ones in the second Fea Ture a Captain arrived from. Another Camp to Check the identity of the officer who had signed the orders to arrest which had been so freely flashed about by the search parties. He found that the signing officer was a sergeant who having heard of the nature of the visitor s enquiry was no longer available. He found also Mobutu and Nen Daka tied in their chairs somewhat worse for Wear. Mobutu presumably with dignity said it is treason to tie me up like and the Captain not being treasonable released him and his Friend. They shot the six soldiers who took the general to Liv Falls. There is no record that they shot the Fellows who were looking for or. Bomboro in the night clubs. Maybe they Haven t come Back yet More Liberty there for All the world s children and the Palm wine drunkards ;