Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 9, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday february 9, 1965 Rule holds True in Viet Nam on Canada and defence a voice from the ranks by Warner Troyer Nicosia Cyprus dear Warner one of the Fellows in our outfit Here gets his Home town paper the saturday edition every week and the Fel lows really enjoy finding out from your column what National defence is All about. Actually he asked his family to Send him a Banjo which he thought would be very popular in the bars Here. But he is glad to get the newspapers instead one of the Fellows used to take a guitar into a bar we go to for a Coke sometimes and a Young lady broke it Over his head last i thought you might be interested in How some of us sympathize with the problems you have been describing and a few you be a Bunch of us were washing our socks and dainties at the Village Well yesterday and someone remarked about the Navy. Seems some of the naval officers Are mad about not having the White Ensign to Fly anymore. One of the corporals he s a bit cynical said they had nothing to com Plain about As Long As or. Hellyer let them keep on wearing a Hankie up their left sleeve. Then another fellow he s from Ottawa got a letter from his father who is in the civil service. The letter said a Bunch of senior air Force officers in Ottawa were telling their friends they were All going to build flagpoles in their front Yards. Then they Are All going to Fly the Craf Ensign the Blue one in front of their houses he said. The Corporal said maybe the Craf Guys should build naval Type Flag poles so they would be Able to use the Yard arms after things Don t work out too Well for them. The funny thing is that the army officers Don t seem to do any complaining. The Corporal says that s because the army is afraid or. Hellyer might take our second world War tanks away from us if we did. He says we be got no place to go but up so we re pretty smart to let the air Force and Navy officers do All the griping. One interesting idea one of the Fellows had was about a few of the officers from Ottawa who Don t like integration. He says Why Don t they go to work for somebody who has a system they like better it s kind of difficult to do a Good Job he says when you have to keep interrupting your complaints to keep up with things in the office. We be been wondering a bit about integrated uniforms. There was a Story in an american newspaper not Long ago that the . Marines and the . Navy Are standardizing some of their stuff. And the marines Are mad cause they have to use a Navy Belt buckle instead of their old ones _ which were very Good for opening Beer bottles and some times the skin of someone with whom you maybe Dis agreed a Little. Most of the Fellows would be willing to use the old Marine buckles if they Are going cheap now. We never seem to find a bottle opener when we want one and we drink a lot of cokes in this hot climate Over Here. I think there was something else i wanted to suggest. Of yeah. The Corporal says it was very Clever of indo Nesia to pull out of the United nations. That Way or. Sukarno won t have to make any contribution toward the peace keeping forces that Malaysia says it s going to ask for if or. Sukarno keeps Landing people with guns along Malaysia s coast. The Corporal says or. Sukarno could conquer Malaysia a lot faster if he sent a couple of Hundred girls from Bali into the country. But then maybe he wants to keep them at Home. Anyway. If we have to go to Malaysia do you think the in might get a few maps and things first that s been a bit of a problem some of the other times you know. Those Fellows in new York Don t seem to plan ahead very much. And it would be very embarrassing to land at Jakarta or maybe Shanghai by mistake. One of the Guys who reads a tit says he Hopes or. Hellyer does decide to buy the f-4, i think it s called the phantom for the air Force. He says if we had the Phan Tom we d have to use american Supply bases and spare parts and things if we wanted to use it anywhere outside Canada. That s a great idea he says cause that Means All the Small countries would think the americans were subsidizing us and that would mean we would t be acceptable i Africa or Asia to help keep the peace. He thinks that s a great idea cause he d rather stay Home and ski anyhow. Hope you did t mind me using your first name. The lieutenant reads All your columns and he says he thinks you Are plenty Young enough to be called by your first name. Sincerely private Smith. Split saps party strength . Can t afford to talk peace by Chalmers Roberts Ift Ashington special w tons on his re turn to Washington from Geneva in 1954 after Viet Nam had been divided into two states one communist and one free the late Gen. Walter Bedell Smith made this com ment it will be Well to remember that diplomacy Lias rarely been Able to gain at the conference table what cannot be gained or held on the Gen. Bedell Smith who then was undersecretary of state spoke in the Wake of the French debacle at Dien Bien Phu a defeat which had forced France to the Geneva conference table. The current of communist Viet Nam in its drive to take Over the once free South Ern half of the nation is to Force the United states to withdraw As did the French. In increasing its military pressure on the ., the communist Viet Cong con trolled by the Hanoi regime in North Viet Nam last sat urday struck at an american installation at Plesku in South Viet Nam in a sort of Small scale Dien Bien Phu Effort. A series of such at has quite clearly be come the Viet Cong plan. The ., not France besieged As it was in 1954. President Johnson ordered air retaliation and it has taken place in two Seg ments on sunday and Mon Day. A key question now is whether considering Gen. Bedell Smith s Rule such . Action and More of the same is Likely if there Are further Viet Cong attacks of the same order of magnitude can improve the american South vietnamese posture at any possible future Confer ence table. As of today the very word negotiation is a forbidden one for american officials. This is especially so after the president shot Down at his press conference last thursday rumours from Paris that some sort of secret negotiations were getting under Way. But that does not mean the . Will never agree to negotiations even though its Public posture now is that the Only solution for Viet Nam is for the North to cease its aggression and with draw its direction and Man Power from the South. About As far As the . Greeting the new year chinese style by John k1rkwood Hong Kong special Christmas As we All know comes but once a year. So where does new year s eve come twice Here of course where Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding meets West with a vengeance. With Christmas and toe traditional new year holidays Over the newly arrived foreign Devil in Hong Kong May think he can relax from the party rounds for a while at least Long enough to Start putting a few half hearted resolutions into effect. But what s this looming up on the horizon another Celebration Al Why of course chinese new year the loudest wildest most raucous and frenzied festivities of them All which make the foreign paper hat and noisemaker brigade seem Pale by com Parison. Of course not being chinese we Don t have to join in. We could stay Home with a pair of earplugs and sulk. But Why be a party proper when after All the usually staid chinese have no qualms putting lampshades on their beads and dancing in the streets to help see the foreign devils new year in the chinese new year varies according to the Moon. Last year for instance feb. 14 ushered in the year of the dragon which was considered an exceptionally Lucky year during which everyone would be very Lucky and become extremely Rich. Why was i left out i and at Midnight on feb. 1 the year of the Snake was born. No one i be talked to Here seems to of quite sure of what Snake year has in store for us but somehow it does t sound too promising although i suppose it s Leo Ryan s Paris letter de Gaulle rival in trouble special the it 57-year-old David who has set himself the Over whelming task of slaying the Goliath general de Gaulle in France s presidential elections this de Cember is danger of being wiped out before the fight. Mayor Gaston def Ferre of Marseilles much to the glee of the gaullist was put in deep trouble by an angry split inside his own socialist party recently. For the m i d a a r c h municipal elections or. De Pferre had made an Alliance with the City s conserva Tives the moderates and the independents based on the political Philps Phy that any Means justifies the end namely keeping the Gaul lists out of Marseilles City Hall where he has reigned for 12 years. A group of dissidents led by a Deputy Daniel Matal on and the vice president of the local general Council Marius Massias accused the outgoing mayor of Deal ing with reactionaries in Stead of forming a popular Type front democratic Union As was achieved in the Paris Region. They then concluded v an Alliance with the communists in opposition to the cries treason reacting furiously or. Def Ferre accused them of treason and read them out of the party. The situation is clean it is either the communists and their hostages he., said. La his stand he received the full backing of the socialist party executive committee in Paris. The split followed months of dissatisfaction by some socialists Over or. Def Ferre s refusal to give ground to the communists in an attempt to present a presidential candidate to represent All the left. Closer to Home the dissidents apparently regarded As an Rethema the pronounce ments of or. Def Ferre a Bourgeois on Lay education. Three rival lists Are now slated to fight out the Marseilles municipal elec Tion or. Def Ferre s socialist followers Allied with conservatives the rebel socialists Allied with the communists and the for colds and Grippe rest in bed 3. Take aspirin to reduce fever and relieve pain aspirin will make you feel better fast headaches colds aspirin is Mark of Bay company limited Aurora Ontario pro gaullist Union for the new Republic. A fourth group represent ing French refugees from Algeria May also enter to further confuse the con test. In the 1959 elections the def ferrites polled votes the communists 000, and the Centre and right Wing groups big victim or. Def Ferre is being singled out As the possible first big victim of a new electoral Law ostensibly de signed to simplify French politics and to polarize opinion. Under the new Law proportional representation was abolished in 159 larger cities in France and political parties were obliged to form alliances prior first round of elections instead of Between the first Aid second rounds now the party list Winn ing in election takes All in the District under the two stage system an absolute majority is required for election in the first round or a simple plurality in the if or. Def Ferre Loire municipal election chances of remaining a presidential candidate Are almost nil. When the Campaign began in Earnest a few week ago the word went out from gaullist Headquarters that or. Def Ferre was. The Man to it would appear that the communists have nipped the gaullist War cry in the Bud. Better than the year of the rat or the Rabbit anyway there s one thing you can always count on a chinese new year to stand for and that s Money and plenty of it. Barber shops and Beauty Parlours increase prices at least a week ahead of time. Food shoots up in Price and Shoeshine boys double their prices Don t argue or they la pick your pocket into the bargain everywhere you go hands Are eagerly outstretched for Comshaw and tip see household servants d e Mand and get three Days off plus double pay and this year one of the ferries plying Between Hong Kong and Macao doubled its fares to allow the Pas sengers rather than the company to pay the Crew its new year Bonus. And of course almost All shops restaurants and offices shut Down for three Days bringing the thriving Economy of the Little Colony grinding to a halt for a Well earned breather. Actually chinese new year also Means debt pay ing time. Days before the holidays Long lines form at the Banks As customers draw out Money with which to Clear their obligations so they can Start the new year with no debts. It s also a time for the children by tradition every child receives gifts of Crisp new Bills or shiny new coins in Little red envelopes called Lai see or Lucky Money. Of course it s a time for new clothes and As the chinese walk around bowing and exchanging the traditional new year greeting of Gung Hei fat the streets Are loud with the squeak squeak of shiny new shoes. Never so the saying goes Start put the new year in last year s and of course it s a time for fun and festivities. Nightclubs Are jammed the streets and Cross Harbor ferries Are thronged with merry makers and Bouse parties rage until the wee Small hours As the usually abstemious c h i n e con sume gallon after gallon of Brandy and whisky. The streets become raging battlefields loud with the ceaseless Roar of exploding firecrackers and filled with smoke traffic becomes hopelessly s n a r d As whooping and hollering lion and dragon dancers Snake backwards and forwards through the vehicles. All in All it s fun. Unless that is you happen to be a dog in which Case you might end up on someone s dinner table. Has the matter of was the Adial Stevenson latter to these purity Council president at the United nations on sunday evening. Letter on behalf of administration or. Stevenson said our objective is a peaceful Settle ment. This would require both the self restraint of the regime to the North and the presence of effective inter National peace keeping machinery to make sure Liat. Promises this is vague enough to allow of Many possibilities. But none will have much meaning if negotiations Are conducted while the hit by diplomatic posture Oft the . And the South vietnamese is As weak As it is today. 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