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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 29, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free february 29, 1964 Congo Unity wearing thin by Tom Stacey t to Goldville the Congo special the sunday a new threat to the delicate edifice of. Congo Unity has come to Light. Armed resistance to Central government authority is being organized by another sex Lumumba is minister of presumed communist affiliation. Is is Anicet Kashimura minister of information in the late Patrice Lumumba govern ment. With his armed Jeun Esse he is apparently intend ing the Mastery of Kiva and thus control Over the Congo s major artery of communication with its Eastern neighbors. Like Pierre Murlele or. Lum Umba s one time minister of Fine arts and education whose tribal and political subjects still control if the word is applied negatively a piece the size of Scotland in Southwest Ern Congo or. Kashimura is a vigorous 35 and effectively trained. Blank period his Only known scamper be Hind the Iron curtain was a Quick one to East Berlin and Prague in Early 1960 but a Blank period in his life history Between late 1961 when his hectic first attempt to wrest control of his native Kiva province ended in failure and his temporary imprisonment and mid-1963 when he popped up again in the Congo was at least partly occupied in Egypt and Algeria Fountainhead of today s Best guerrillas. Like or. Murlele and this is Kashimura has known links with the con go s Shadow a far leftist Cabal headed by Christophe Ibenye Adoulia s former Interior minister which lurks in Brazzaville a nine Penny ferry ride across the River from Here. Observers Here naturally suggest that the coincidence of the two Jeunesse revolts a thousand Miles apart in popu Lous productive and strategic regions is not a Chance one. . Aden base costly insurance by David Holden London special the guard Ian the remaining British toehold in the persian Gulf and Southern Arbia Are like two ends of a pantomime horse you can t have one without the other but when you put them together they still look pretty queer. If it were not for the military base in so the usual argument runs there would be no Security for the Oil sheikh Doms of the Gulf and. Conversely if it were not for the nil in the Gulf there would he Little need now to keep the Aden base. Or. To put it another Way. As a senior British official in the Gulf did for me not Long the Cost of the Aden base is the insurance Premium for our interest in Gulf Oil and in that Light it does t seem in perhaps not. There Are no official figures for the Cost of the Aden base but the defence establishment there is believed to pump into the Economy of the Colony something like s3 million a year. Conservative tally the total value of Oil produced in the territories around the persian Gulf is conservatively estimated at s3.4 billion a year of which the British protected sheikh Doms including Kuwait contribute about one third. For the next decade Accord ing to current estimates the of full oilfields old and new will need to double their present production to keep Pace with the world s rising Oil con sumption. These Are matters that in British government conserva Tive or labor could dismiss lightly yet As nationalist pres sure on the Aden base develops apace and the Cost of maintaining that quasi colonial toehold rises the demand grows for new arrangements in protect British interests in the Gulf. To their credit Many British officials have tried to Antici Pate such a demand by urging new political structures upon the Petty rulers of the Gulf but they have met with few successes. Since their first significant breakthrough two and a half years ago when Kuwait re placed her old British protectorate treaty with a simple treaty of Mutual defence and a declaration of full Independence British efforts to modernize the politics of the Gulf have been to All appear ances at a standstill. In the rest of the sheikh Doms the nineteenth Century treaties intended Only to defend the Freedom of the sea and the route to India now entangle Britain in an unhappy web of responsibility without Power obliging her to support a Bat Tery of More or less archaic regimes without the authority to insist on any changes in their internal affairs. The seven rulers of the crucial coast sheikh Doms main Tain their objections to the federation the British have tried to urge on them in the inter ests of common sense and Mutual survival and the most fortunate of them. Sheikh Shaubut of Abu Dahabi who is now in the process of becom ing Oil Rich at least to the expected tune of millions a year or More by 1966, is understandably anxious to control his own affairs More than Ever. In an Ideal world perhaps Kuwait by now might have shown the rest of the Gulf the Way out of this nineteenth Century Cul de Sac. There in his two and a half years of Independence the ruler has bought off his jealous neighbors by creating a fund to finance development schemes in All Arab countries with kuwaiti Money. At Home ton Kuwait s shrewd old ruler sheikh Abdullah bin Sabah. Has bought off potential discontent not Only with a bigger and better Wel fare state than anyone else i the annual expenditure on education for example is about per but also with the rudiments of representative government. The Way out perhaps in the Long run. This is the Way out. Yet for All its Money and enlightenment even Kuwait has not yet brought it self to abandon its British Security umbrella. The defence treaty remains under which British troops were called in in protect Kuwait from Gen. Kassem in 1961. And neither sheikh Abdullah nor the British has any illusions just now about the chances of replacing this guarantee with any effective agreement with the Arab states. So for the present. Britain s pantomime horse remains in tact the sheikh Doms in the Gulf and the base in Aden feebler and less convincing at both ends As the years go by hut acceptable in the absence of anything better. One Day inevitably it will come to pieces As pantomime horses always do. And it would be pleasant if. Somehow Britain could anticipate that Day and prepare for a Grace Ful exit. But in the nature of things people and history in the persian Gulf it won t be easy. Copyright by arrange ment with tic guardian Manchester r a n in troop withdrawal May spell end to Central authority with Cyrille Adoulia s Soi Disant army thus stretched the major Challenge to laboriously constructed Congo Unity is once More generally being recognized As Katanga. A recent on the spot assess ment in Elizabethville satisfies me that the familiar centrifugal yearnings Are As alive today As Ever. The recently installed minis ters and people alike in the Southern Katanga provinces of Lua Laba and East Katanga and even some disinterested specialists say Many of the inhabitants of North Katanga look Back upon the prosperous Days of secession with a Sharp and often expectant nostalgia. Why first the Onrush of poverty a National condition but More painful by far to the once spoiled Katan Gese and secondly the awful behaviour of the Central government sol Diery which for the past year has comported itself like an army of occupation whose duty and pleasure has been to beat and Rob the local Katan Gese population. Ablest sex minister a Short while ago Evariste Kimba Ablest of old Kat Anga s sex ministers launched a new party of opposition. Meanwhile various african a Vangese notables have been exhorting the or so former gendarmes of sex president Moise Tshombe who Are not training in Angola at Teixeira Rie Sousa to refrain from their spasmodic banditry and return Home where patience will re Ward them in due time. As for or. Tshombe himself in his self exile an Aura o deification surrounds his name. His own ultimate Hopes Are perhaps As obscure to himself As to us All his political in Terest however persists. A few things grow clearer daily. One is that for the in military Force in Katanga currently and in the rest of the Cong o to quit the scene by the end of june will not be reversed unless order collapses or there is open Defiance of the Central government before then. It is understood that in Secretary general u Thant is re solved upon Complete and Swift disengagement even in Rwan Katan Gese figures seem aware of the need for the charismatic or. Tshombe before attempting to alter the status quo. Another is. The More general acceptance that or. Tshombe May prove t6 be the Only figure Able to exert his will upon the exasperated people of Katanga in any direction. It is perhaps with this in mind that Justin Bomboro a Power Ful centralist and Leader of the Central government s ministerial group that selected or. Adoulia and maintains him in Power preserves tenuous links with or. Tshombe in his Span ish Retreat and intended to pay him a visit shortly before special from the sunday times a where his representatives stubborn obscurantism through out the recent massacres would otherwise be inexplicable. Moreover despite the Devo Ted service of some of its Mem Bers the in reputation Here is being dogged by persistent Black Markelee ing and on evidence i have inspected Diamond smuggling by some of ils More cynical even As 1 entered the Post office to Send this message congolese youths surrounded me offering packages of a thou Sand . Cigarettes supplied to the in staff and sold by them. Another Point to emerge is that the still influential african Christmas until dissuaded by or. Adoulia. The Pertina Cious or. Tshombe himself it is reported sees the futility of any single handed attempt at re establishing Katanga s Independence and pos Sibly with or. Kimba s new party As a vehicle May be considering a gaullist re entry on the stage at the Centre As the one Man who can Rescue a decaying Congo. Decay it appears to by Here rapidly there despite a in and belgian Aid Force of some in every depart ment of Public service. The fail ure is of skill and discipline the tragedy being that the Lack Anicet Kashimura vigorous and Well trained of one the other and they Are Seldom present to Gether. Government projects Are con stantly foundering on a failure of follow through. Many private enterprises unprotected by effective Law suffer substantial loss through thieving employees in the Case of one tin mine an official told me of up to 20 per cent of output. But the hardest deterrent to the concerted and sustained assistance from overseas without which the Congo must return to the Bush is the Security of foreigners. Only today comes the news that a belgian govern ment employed Public prosecutor named Turenne has been thrown into jail by the police for objecting because two other european prisoners the one he was prosecuting on a Man Slaughter charge the other an uncharged witness were forced to drink their own urine. Copyright 1964 the sunday times London Melinda Mccracken s utter from London sir Alec gives beatles a boost London special can the beatles save sir Alec Douglas Home he seems to think in. The night before figures were re leased showing that Britain s exports trailed badly behind her imports for january sir Alec appeared on television to say that Britain s economic position had never been stronger. His answer to the balance of payments problem was this if any country is in deficit to us i Only have to say that the beatles Are with earnings abroad Al ready in the hundreds of thousands of dollars the beat Les Are Britain s biggest Export. In fact sir Alec Calls them his secret he believes they will prevent a balance of payments crisis from developing in the next few months. A crisis would Force Chan cellar of the exchequer Reginald Maudling to apply the Stop of the notorious tory Stop and go economic policy. Prosperity is always Fol Lowed by a crisis according to this policy but if a crisis is avoided the British Economy will continue to Boom right up to elec Tion time now expected to be in Early summer. Political forecasters say that uninterrupted Prosperity is sir Alec s Only Hope for re elec Tion. But if he is saved no one has predicted his next problem How to Knight a beatle. A a a but sir Alec already has things to solve. There Are two problems in my he said recently. The Politi Cal ones Are insoluble and the economic ones Are i compre he also has difficulty read ing his speeches. In one of his latest speeches it was noted that the number be came overtake be came take he said "10 Days ago1 when the Calendar clearly showed 14. And suggested that Morocco was a member of the common wealth. He was commended for his improvement from the time before. Yet sir Alec is surprisingly successful in spite of his slip . The audience warms to his amateurish Ness his nervousness and his incomprehension of economics. Sir Alec knows How to arouse old feelings of the greatness of the British pm pah in his audience How to exploit lingering prejudice against France. Remarked one commentator he seems to pronounce even the word french1 with great a a breakthrough has been made in British Stamps. For the first time an other head will appear beside that of the Queen. In memory of Shakespeare s 400th birthday a stamp will be issued bearing his portrait on one Side the Queen s on the other and play scenes in the Middle. No person is allowed to honoured on England s Stamps Only a thing and the Queen. So Shakespeare s port Rait officially honors die 400 year festival Celebration. Nevertheless it is the first time someone else has Man aged to get his head in. A if you Haven t found a of disposing of leftover Christmas pudding Here s a suggestion. A heavyweight wrestler was Gettine the belter of his oppo nent in Malvenia when some thing came flying out of the darkness surrounding the ring and knocked him cold. It was a Christmas pudding lobbed by some unidentified fan. Fresh Christmas pud dings Are heavy and soft this one was stale and hard As a Rock. A doctor revived the unconscious wrestler and the fight promoter shocked toy the Inci Dent announced that All pud Ding carrying customers would be barred from admittance in future. Queen courting danger in visit to Quebec Montreal special there is growing concern Here about the scheduled visit of Queen Elizabeth to Quebec City in october. No one in authority has made a Public admission of apprehension yet but several have conceded privately they re Wor ried the visit May have to be cancelled because of renewed revolutionary activity in the province. Scotland Yard men will be Here next month to learn what plans have been made to guard the Queen and one of the things they intend to ascertain before they give their approval for the trip is whether her safety can be guaranteed. Prof. Raymond be Beau one of Quebec s leading separatists says it can t. He has expressed genuine fear that the Queen would be courting Dan Ger. This week Marcel Chaput former Leader of Quebec s separatist Republican party fold n Toronto audience that the Queen s Fife would be in danger if she visited Quebec. But prime minister Pearson assured the House of commons next Day that plans for her visit would not be affected by any irresponsible state however there Are growing fears that Quebec extremists Are planning an assault on the Queen when she visits the the Canadian press quotes a Law enforcement source who asked not to be identified As saying there in t much room for doubt that these Guys have such a plot in their members of the Armee de by Bruce Taylor liberation do Quebec the so called fighting Wing of the front de liberation do Quebec showed their feelings this week by taking time out to deface several pictures of the Queen while they were looting a Shaw in Gan que., armory of arms and ammunition. It was the third such looting in less than a month and it added considerably to the now substantial Arsenal of the re emerging Fly which is dedicated to the establishment of Quebec As an Independent re Public by violent revolution. Fly Arsenal that Arsenal now consists of at least 93 belgian in Semi automatic rifles the modern nato infantry two score machine guns a dozen or More sidearms rounds of ammunition four Field mortars three anti tank bazookas a Large Quantity of Wallde talkie radio equip ment and 15 Canadian army uniforms. The army has attempted to play Down the value of the Sto Len weapons by saying some of them Are without Breech blocks and firing pins. But More than half the fans and several of the machine guns Are in first class working order. The in was the Type of gun the Santa Glaus bandits used to slay two sub Urban Montreal policemen in a single bust of fire a year ago Hist Christmas. No one really expects the Armee de liberation to go swooping into the predominantly Anglo Saxon West end of Montreal with guns and bazookas blazing but no one Here really thinks the Youthful re Bels intend to hang them on their Walls and forget about them either. There is real anxiety Here. There is Good reason for it. Most of us recall How we laughed off the threats and Sta tue toppling by the Fly when it began operations last Spring. Even the first few time bombs planted by the terrorists were dismissed with a shrug. It was Only when one Man was killed and another crippled for life that the Fly was taken seriously. But we breathed More easily again when the leaders of the organization were rounded up by the police and sent to Pri son. Shortly after i went to the French islands of St. Pierre arid Miquelon to find Richard Bizier a 19-year-old member of the Fly who had jumped bail while awaiting trial. He later returned to Montreal and was Given six months for placing a bomb at an Craf building. He is free now Don t be misled by the arrests of the Fly. He told me. The Fly is not dead. It will Rise again stronger than aimed to kill he May have been right. The new activities of the group appear even better organized than last year. And there s some thing a lot More frightening about the image of Young men armed with modern Semi Auto Matic rifles and machine guns a time bomb May or May not Hurt someone a gun is aimed to kill. Quebec dailies take Roblin to task following is a selection of editorials on current topics translated from the French language press of Canada. Appearing weekly in the. Free press it is aimed at carrying part of the country to the other a step farther than is usual in news and situational stories. A similar selection of editorials from the English language press is being provided for French language papers. 9 u o t i 0 i i n Back door assimilation Quebec May he doubted that the recent proposals of Premier Roblin s government in Manitoba constitute a step toward solution of the problem of education for Cath Olics in that province. 11 must certainly be admitted that the Roblin project remedies cer Tain flagrant injustices such As for example the refusal to Al in pupils to go to Catholic schools in Public school Board buses or the refusal to allow schools to use the textbooks used in the Public schools. But the Roblin proposal does not tackle the Core of the prob Lem which is the double taxation of Catholic parents and tin refusal of the authorities to permit a free Choice of the kind of leaching they want for their children. Free Dom of Choice implies free Edu cation for All c Wildren whether they attend Ca Holic schools or secular Public schools. The Roblin government is sensitive to the opinion of Uip majority and it seems that in Manitoba As in other provinces. English speaking canadians of the protestant Faith Are not yet ready to admit that. Catholics have the same rights As they in the Field of education. In Manitoba where an important percentage of catholics Are French canadians this opposition to separate schools is accentuated by the fact that equal rights for French canadians Are opposed. Every step taken in this direction is considered a Concession by the English speaking element. That is Why we ask whether or. Roblin s proposals Are not basically a More or less plan designed to assimilate All French canadians by bringing them Little by Little. Into the English speaking Secu Lar Public schools through Hack door. Be Devoir an Opportunity missed Montreal la Devoir while in Saskatchewan and Alberta the g n v i r n meats show in creased understanding of the of separate schools the school Shua Tion in Manitoba is hardening dangerously. In Manitoba a brutal intolerant secularism has refused the beginning of the Cen Tury to recognize Catholic schools. Or. Roblin had a unique Opportunity to break this monolithic spirit to show that he intended to introduce into his province a genuine plural ism of the kind to which his neighbors have Long subscribed. Instead of rising to this level of political intelligence he re affirms principles that remain unacceptable. His plea in favor of the separation of Church and state will convince no one. Everybody is in favor of this principle hut there arc various ways of applying it and the Manitoba Way is one Catholic opinion does not accept. Duff Roblin s mistake would not however justify excesses that Catholic spokesmen could their commit. The present ecumenical Cli mate has taught us that Deli Cate questions concerning the insertion of the religious Factor in temporal realities must be handled by catholics with firm Ness and clarity certainly but also with understanding Calm moderation and realism. However it is almost a War cry that or. Laurent Desjardins has sounded. The member for St. Boniface accused or. Rob Lin of insulting catholics. He threatened to organize a March on the provincial legislature. Manitoba catholics ought not to throw themselves blindly Inlo such a strategy. While standing firm on Basic principles they ought to give sympathetic study to he practical implications of sir. Roblin s plan and serious consideration to the possible advantages nol Only for them selves but for the cause of civic Harmony. Queen Elizabeth Fly target the great majority of French canadians Here is opposed to separatism. But the daring robberies by the Young terrorists Are gaining them an increasing admiration something on the order of modern Robin hoods. Last Spring s horrifying events Are still too fresh in the minds of Anglo saxons for similar thoughts. It is not enough to dismiss these robberies of the Armor ies As the work of unthinking the Montreal Star said in an editorial last week. They May indeed be Young but they also appear to be highly organized and in Possession of sufficient Money with which to buy trucks in which to carry off their spoils. It is therefore no time for complacency. So far Quebec has seemed to take the View that because the armoires Are Federal the whole business is a Federal affair and no concern of the province. But if Only be cause of the Adverse publicity Quebec is now getting in the other Canadian provinces there is ample warrant for a renewed denunciation by the Quebec authorities and the greatest possible activity by the actor Lapress Quebec army jagged with self serve motto Montreal la Prusse the Canadian army practises in Quebec As everywhere else in the country a Para commercial policy borrowed from the super markets self service. You want arms come and take them. We have in Stock everything you need automatic and Semi Auto Matic rifles machine guns bazookas mortars and the am munition for these various play things As Well. The order does not even have to be passed on to Ottawa. Our stores Are open All night. Since purchases Are free at our place you have Only to get in after picking our locks or kicking in a door or two which is simplest of matters. Only the transportation is at your expense. There is no need to fear that the army will abruptly change this method. It is sticking to self service. The proof last year when ruffians ventured to explode some bombs in its establishments it was thought that it would put an end to the system hut not at All. Once apparently by mistake there was a night watchman on the Job. He was killed. The lesson was Learned henceforth there were no night watchmen it military establishments. Thus the customers can select in peace what they want to take. For the last three weeks Busi Ness has been particularly heavy. The defence minister announced that he was taking Security measures in sensitive that is to say Quebec and the Eastern fringe of on Tario. Does he by Chance think the arms thieves Are unaware of the existence of the automobile and what if some Ordinary ban dits Toronto gangsters for example also ventured to look for bargains at the expense of the state it would hardly be sur prising after All the publicity accorded the army s self service system ;