Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday. February 13, 1965 a Johnson facing ionizing decision by Walter Lippmann Washington special tons the reaction of the red chinese to the . Air strikes is very interesting. The peking people s daily is As one might expect very angry we Are waiting for you in Battle Larray if you insist in imposing the War on us heavy rebuffs Are in store for there is Little doubt about what the peking chinese have in mind they Are thinking first of an american inva Sion on the ground into North Viet Nam and they Are say ing that if this occurs they will intervene on the ground and give us a heavy re the important thing about this reaction is that it re Veals How much the chinese Are land animals. It reveals a preoccupation with the Only kind of War they Are Cap Able of fighting effectively a War on the ground. There is no direct reaction to what actually happened an air strike from carriers at sea. There is no reaction to this because China does not have the air Force or the Navy capable of reacting. But we must not assume from this that the red Chin Ese regard themselves As in capable of fighting Back. We must assume on the contrary that the chinese Mili tary leaders who have to be taken seriously Are consider ing How they can use the military instrument which they possess land Power to answer the United states. We must therefore reckon with the possibility that chinese infantry might enter North Viet Nam perhaps also Laos and Thailand and even Korea. This is Likely to be the answer if the War is escalated to the Point where North Viet Nam is being devastated. The chinese proved in the korean War that their in Fantry cannot be stopped even by prolonged and continuous bombing. In the end the korean War had to be fought on the ground until it was settled by negotiations. Running out it is Plain that time is running out for the policy which the president worked out when he inherited the vietnamese commitment. The policy was not to go North As the. done and not to. Withdraw but to stand Pat and Hope that the communists would grow tired of the War. It was a policy to postpone and avoid the necessity of making a decision of choosing Between widening the War and confronting China on the one band and on the other hand reviving the negotiations which were never completed after the French defeat in 1954. The Choice is a horrid one. A War with China would be an incalculable risk. In a negotiated settlement which would be followed by our withdrawal from the main land Southeast Asia might slip within the chinese sphere of influence unless the soviet Union Japan India and the United states were Able to exert a Conte rail ing influence. Must decide the policy of avoiding a decision had a popular consensus behind it and it was useful in that it insulated the election from becoming a Harum scrum Brawl about Viet but desirable As the policy of consensus is for dealing with great Domestic issues such As civil rights labor and capital the welfare state for pressing prob lems in the realm of great Power politics there must be a decision and Choice. The Choice which has to be decided is Between full scale War and a negotiated truce. I say full scale War because if the Choice is to seek a military solution the country must be prepared for the worst. President Johnson must not make the mistake of president Truman who let himself be persuaded by Gen. Douglas Macarthur that the chinese would not be Able to fight if we widened the War to their Frontier on the Yalu River. The military policy of hold ing on in Nam supplemented with retaliatory strikes needs to be accompanied by a full scale peace offensive. The . Ought not to be afraid to say and should not hesitate to say that it is seeking a negotiated settlement in Southeast Asia. The peace offensive should be an Appeal Tov the rus sians the japanese the indians the British the French and the chinese to bring diplomacy to Bear upon the War like condition in East Asia. The administration has always shrunk from talking about a negotiated peace because it has feared that it would demoralize what is left of the fighting spirit in South Viet Nam. It has also been afraid of being criticized Here at Home can t win but As a matter of fact the Only rational objective of the policy the . Is follow ing is to induce North Viet Nam and its chinese Mentor to look to a negotiated Settle ment. Nobody in his right mind can imagine that this War can be that is to say ended by the unconditional surrender of the communists. The administration has been willing to say privately that the Rea son it continues the War in South Viet Nam is in order to put itself in a better bar gaining position for a negotiation. The retaliatory air strikes should help some. But the president s great predecessors Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt never thought that they could have a military solution without at the same time a Diplo Matic offensive. Despite safety efforts deaths on roads continue Turkey s army has last word by Ray Sinclair one Hundred and eighty grind ing shattering crashes. Twisted Metal. Whimpering. Silence. One Hundred and eighty torn lifeless Manitoban. By dec. 31 this year the worst fears of police Highway depart ment officials and thinking Citi Zens will probably be realized As the province chalks ii another year of dreadful carnage on the roads. 1964 saw an All time record in traffic fatalities. One Hundred and ninety one Manitoban died painfully and violently. In August a 1949 Model car slammed head on into a truck on Highway 8, near Gimli. Five teen agers died in what ramp Corporal e. J. Cults described As the worst Accident i have seen in 14% years on the dec. 13, a car moving at 15 . Struck a parked car As the Driver took her eyes off the Road for a second to Point out Christmas lights to her 23-month old son. The child choked on food forced from his stomach to his Windpipe. He died i what Coroner or. Athol Gordon called a pathetic and tragic Why Why do people die on the Road too Many of us simply feel an Accident won t and can t Hap pen to said Peter Dzygala assistant director of Highway safety in the provincial highways department. Driving is a full time occur said Winnipeg traffic mine shutdown blocked Brisbane govern ment restraining order thursday prevented a Complete shutdown of the mount Isa Copper mine Australia s largest. The order was issued a Litty More than four hours before the strike bound mine was to hav been closed completely by the mount Isa mine co. Following Long dispute Between manage ment and a rebel Trade faction the Surprise order obtained by a Queensland state Concilia Tion commissioner restraint the company from closing the mine before feb. 18. Closure would have thrown out of work 700 employees of contracting con addition to a ready out in a strike which a paralysed the main mine for six weeks. Mount Isa is Australia s Larf est producer of Copper and Leac More than 50 per cent of if shares Are owned by the Amer ican smelting and refining be the strike has Cost Australi australian 000 in overseas trading a ances through a slump in met exports apart from australian lost weekly by the company. The dispute which Bega Over wages now involves on one Industrial Issue re employ ment of the Leader of a Brea away Union group Pat Macki by Jeremy Arnold Ankara special owns this is election year in Turkey but since the revolution of May 1960, and the introduction of the 961 Constitution it has been ear that no party will Rule Turkey without the army s approval. All indicators Point to in opposition Justice party s raining the election. Its chances f receiving the army s Blessing o not however look Good. The Justice party is recognize d As the heir to the Democrat c party of the late prime minister Menderes indeed it is o this fact that they owe their electoral support. But however much nostalgia the electorate May show for the Menderes regime the fact remains that in army acted in 1960 to end he years of Democrat Rule. To in officers behind the 1960 coup he return of a Justice party government would be Back to quare one with a vengeance. In these circumstances the ustice party has been Busy adoring its image to the army s taste. On nov. 28 its annual convention elected Sleyman Demirel a respected moderate to the party Leader hip and at the same time put number of Well known liberals m the party executive. Subsequently or. Demirel agreed at a meeting of All Turkey s major Larty. Leaders to revoke the parliamentary privilege of four ustice party deputies who had Jeen accused by the chief of the general staff Gen. Sunay of insulting the army at a party rally. Finally or. Demirel has been trying to negotiate a place for he Justice party in a coalition with Ismet Inonu s governing Republican people s party to Rule the country until the elections next october. As a Jartner in a governing coalition in Hopes to convince the army that the Justice party in capable of providing moderate and responsible government. Another matter whether the army will be Ieve him is another matter the delegates to the Justice party convention Are thought to Lave been chosen in the main by or. Yilgic or. Demirel opponent for the party Leader ship and it is believed in some quarters that or. Yilgic manoeuvred or. Demirel into the leadership knowing that he would be More acceptable to the army while at the same time or. Yilgic retained control o the party machine. If the army shares this belief they a unlikely to endorse a Justin party Victory at the polls. Unfortunately another Milit Ary coup if it comes off a not prove As politically disinter ested As the last one. the younger officers believe the the 1960 revolution failed precisely because it lacked an doctrinal purpose. This conviction coincides wit a broadening current of socialist thinking among the intelligent Sia. The Paradox of Turkis socialism lies in the fact that it considerable Success among the intellectuals has not Bee matched by any similar pro Gress among the working classes. The left Wing workers party has been a negligible Force at the polls while Popula support has rallied again to the right Wing Justice party. Fru rated in their attempts i achieve their Aims Constitution ally turkish socialists a beginning to think of othe methods. The army Alread infiltrated with socialist idea seems in its present mood a Ideal vehicle inspector Neil Clarke. If we could get rid of the attitude that accidents happen to everyone else we would be a Long Way Forward in solving the intense publicity campaigns re carried out like Don t drink and the Canadian Highway safety Council in Ottawa organizes a National safety week each year in the first week of december. Once the worst month for Acci dents december has been re placed by August. An average week for Acci dents in Rural Manitoba is 100. During Safe driving week last december there were 66, including one fatality. During that week there is close concentration of police on the province s roads. What about the rest of the year in Winnipeg inspector. Clarke said everything is done that can be Phil Haffner manager of the greater Winnipeg safety coun cil said i would like to see stricter Law enforcement. They re so limited in staff. With More men and vehicles they could do a better Job. That would be a greater part of the nobody has a solution. Nobody can pinpoint any one Over whelming cause. Drinking inexperience of Confidence s e 1 f i s h n e s Sim patience said. In Spector Clarke. These Are just some reasons for traffic Acci each year More than accidents Are reported in Mani Toba. Of the fatalities motor vehicle Branch figures show 25 to 30 per cent involve drinking. Ability to drive decreases with the increase in blood alcohol. Risk of Accident increases three fold with .05 per cent 4 Beers in an hour. Risk is 20 7vi Beers in an hour times greater at .14 per cent the impaired Driver is by far the most hazardous. He is totally says or. Dzygala of the Highway safety department. Or. Haffner said Many a drinking Driver in spite of hav ing had three or four belts is still a cautious Driver. People Are always going to drink and drive. The difference is that some will get smashed and create a real Hazard. Others cabbies clipped Sao Paulo Brazil Reut have installed a Barber s shop at their head quarters and Are rounding up untidy taxi Drivers for compulsory shaves and haircuts. It is All part of a plan to improve the City s taxi service Fol lowing thousands of complaints by passengers of overcharging dirty vehicles and reckless driving. Trade Union leaders protested to police Headquarters but superintendent Gabriel Dos Santos refused to see them. I shall not talk to Union leaders As Long As they fail to collaborate in my Campaign against bad he said will Call in for three or four drinks before Home. These Are not sometimes or. Dzygala said the drinking Driver involved in an Accident is but More often than not he s the responsible party no increase or. Dzygala said department figures show no great increase in Christmas new year Acci dents involving drink. What of the warning Speed the faster you travel the less your chances of said or. Dzygala. But you can travel at a relatively High Speed depending on your capability and conditions such As traffic the Road and visibility. If All Drivers could be relied upon7 to use common sense there would be no need for Speed the speeding car More than anything else must be a sound car. While some engineers say privately that certain makes Are decidedly safer than others few will commit themselves. It was observed that one favored 1965 american car has so m e dashboard instruments moved from in front of the Driver to the Middle. Its Tail lights can not be seen from the Side approaches. We have fought to have things left where they Are when they be been accepted As safety fac said or. Haffner. Changes Are just for seat belts both or. Dzygala and or. Half Ner Are emphatic on the Benefit of seat belts which keep you where you re safest inside the but or. Dzygala added i Dpn t know if is going to save a person in any serious the consensus is that the teen age Driver should have his place on the Road at the present mini mum a be of 16. Or. Haffner would like to see Driver training As an extra curricular High school reaction is much better than yours or he said. But they tend to show off or Are improperly Insp. Clarke said increasing the minimum age would be of no Benefit but if my children were going to drive i would recommend they attend a driving there Are other hazards on the Road. Or. Dzygala s own dog dashed into the path of a car recently and a rear end collision of two cars was the result. There is a Lack of Law concerning certification of Auto mechanics. The youth or Man working on your vital brakes steering or transmission is not necessarily skilled. There Are no figures to show the outcome of faulty repair work. There is the front passenger seat suicide seat to the Pas Senger during any serious Acci Dent. But mainly there is the Driver. The most important person on the Road when it comes to cutting Down the casualty rate. Insurance companies in Mani Toba in 1963 paid out in outright claims. A lot of Money. But is it Worth 180 lives the International implications f a left Wing government in Ankara could be frightening. In in first instance such a gov rement would probably Content self with playing a gaullist Ole in nato. Once started however a shift to the left Ould Well break into a Gallop. Turkish socialists see Ataturk s statist policies whereby the state plays a major role within an accepted capitalist framework As an ineffective doctrinal Compromise. They would probably insist n a fully socialized Economy and this would include a major program of land Reform. More dictatorial the need to import foodstuffs in which Turkey is now virtual self sufficient would add to in country s chronic balance of payments problems and in the Ace of popular unrest could ush the government into an increasingly dictatorial position he socialism of the younger intellectuals is already closer to the socialism of Egeria s Ben Bella than to that f West Germany s Willy Brandt. The Prospect of a Ben cellist regime in Ankara must e a Nightmare to nato and Cento strategists. It is commonplace to think of Turkey with its historical Back ground of enmity to Russia As secure bulwark against communist penetration of the Middle East. But in fact Ata urk himself had a warm flirtation with Russia in the Early thirties. The windows of he soviet consulate in Istanbul Oday carry an impressive Pho graphic display of smiling Well fed peasants in the Turkmenistan soviet Republic. Middle Eastern intrigue has a habit of springing Nasty sur Prises. Ethnic press re elects Lezack Leo j. Lezack publisher of the jewish Post was re elected president of the Canada press club by acclamation at the club s annual meeting in the ukrainian cultural and educational Centre 935 main Street. Members of the club Are for the most part publishers and editors of ethnic newspapers in greater Winnipeg. Other officers Lre elected included John h. Symick Man aging editor of the ukrainian voice first vice president h. F. Klassen editor of the mennonite review second vice president Michael Harris Winnipeg free press reporter treasurer and mrs. M. H. Hykawy Secretary. Or. Lezack s annual report said 1964 was a successful year and that club membership had reached an All time High. Or. Lezack said the executive had completed briefs for the club and the Canada ethnic press federation for submission this fall to the Royal commis Sion on bilingualism and by cultural ism. The report noted the club s guests last year had included Canada s immigration minister. And John p. Sigvaldson Cana Dian ambassador to Norway and Iceland. An honorary member ship in the club had been presented to Premier Bjarni Benedikt Sori of Iceland. After thursday s meeting club members were taken on a tour of the museum of ukrainian cultural and the educational Centre in the ukrainian nation federation building. 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