Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 8, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg Friday july 8, 1966 the rusting curtain this week s Warsaw pact meeting1 in Bucharest took place in a drastically changed european atmosphere. It is an atmosphere that has permeated both sides of the Iron curtain a curtain which outside of the East German Border has been rapidly rusting and is now full of holes a mood that seems Little inclined to accept the rigid posturing demanded by Moscow from its allies. The Stark Black and White colouring of european positions has gone out of fashion and having accorded full honors to Gen de Gaulle even to the extent of showing him the secret Baik Anur space base Moscow cannot now insist that the Eastern. Woe is seriously threatened and. Should move closer together under a strict soviet Tutelage. Although some lip service May still be paid to the West German bogey most of the East european countries have entered into profitable relationship with West Germany a relationship they Are anxious to expand rather than contract. Germany s Trade with Poland is booming Czechoslovakia and Hungary Are crammed with German tourists and there has been much talk in Bonn of full diplomatic relations with Romania despite the Hallstein doctrine now largely considered obsolete. Having tasted some Mea sure of Freedom the East european communist regimes Are Noi very responsive to Moscow s suggestions that the Viet Nam War presents a direct threat to Europe and that More Money is needed for defence. The disarray in nato is thus fully mirrored in the Warsaw pact organization. The disintegration of blocs May be slow and May extend Over a generation but it is obvious that the process has begun. What its results will be cannot As yet be fathomed it is a development fraught with both Hope and danger on the one hand it offers the West a Chance of better relations with Eastern Europe. On the other hand it May seriously impair the cohesion and with it the Chance of survival of a Liberal democratic West. Meanwhile the soviet government despite its prefer ence for a rigid policy has made a significant Concession to its East european allies in agreeing to the drafting of printed and published dully sunday by Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Cariton Stet Winnipeg Manitoba. John Silton president Shane Mac Kat. Executive editor h. S. May we. Publisher uti vice pro Dent associate Western Peter Mclintock leak at the top background to bombings by Richard Purser Washington the bombing of Oil depots adjacent to the capital and major North Viet Nam created a National and inter National furore. But it was not i june is when president John son held a snap saturday press conference in his office a ploy designed to restrict these events to the inner Circle of the White House press or. Sharp and the Banks Ottawa or. Sharp s Bank Bill is a marked improvement Over the Compro Mise mooted earlier and it is by Western a year is that conditions Are i ing Reform. But the Bill which no doubt the Best that the min ister could wring caucus still troubled by the woeful forebodings of or. Wal a not abnormal and Public on thursday from change might cause evening is a very Large and us Ter Gordon. For the Long two proposals for a Warsaw pact nato european Security Toju probably 6o very Well conference. According to reports from these As a remedy for immediate proposals Are to be made Public shortly they would differ j troubles it suffers thanks to from the proposals of a similar conference broached earlier j the caucus rebels from a cd in the Spring by Andrei Gromyko the soviet foreign rious Lack of logic. Minister in that this time the conference would include All members of nato including the United states. Or. Gro Myko s original was that of a Security conference restricted to european Powers Only. If such a conference were to take place the East continue magistrate Isaac Rice is not the least newsworthy Lawman in the West he appears to Blind Eye from his Good one. Is it perhaps True that Magis trate Rice is having hearing his left is it his right ear he can have a Talent for attracting determine which it is quite not Only to Nisi Easey by deciding it is always but to his less the one on the Side the higher ups Are sitting on. Mind Youv we Haven t said a word. Attention successes successful ventures. The worst that can be said about that is trite but True a Man who never made a mistake never tried to make anything. Now it appears magistrate Rice s experiments with the victims of the human Condi Tion Are at an end. It is not Only a pity it is a Public arid for a lot of people who might have been Given a new Chance h personal loss. The Story which appeared in this paper monday july 4, of a 20-year old with a record who. Was put on his feet by the magistrate s individual methods will not be repeated. Magistrate Rice says he has been told by those higher up that he must not dabble in rehabilitation his province it seems is the imposition of Justice. Many German regime would he silting at the table As a Fulli things the removal of the Arti member of the Warsaw pact and this is something interest rates i West German government May find hard to Swallow. There is however a Strong movement within nato spearheaded that would favor the acceptance of any such Warsaw pact proposals. There Are also Many influential West germans who believe that it would be detrimental to Bonn s image abroad and particularly to the image of West Germany As a peace Loving country that. The Bonn govern ment is trying to Foster in Eastern Europe if such a conference were to founder upon West German objections. The presence of East Germany at the conference table May by far be outweighed by the advantages that such a conference would offer to Bonn in its efforts to improve its relations with Eastern Europe. It is not improbable that because of these advantages and because of the centrifugal tendencies within the Eastern bloc which under the present european mood such a conference would Foster Moscow might pull Back at the last moment a european Security conference could Well meet the same Fate As the ill starred exchanges Between West German social democrats and East German communists cancelled at the last moment by the East German regime. However if and when the proposal for a conference is made it should be accepted by the West with Good Grace. Europe is astir and it is in Western interest to break the now obsolete shibboleths and to seek understanding where this is possible. Complex measure which will bring about sweeping changes in our banking and financial system. The government has bad two Broad objectives. The first is to make the banking institutions More competitive and efficient. To this end the measure strikes at interlocking directorates which inhibit Competition Between Banks and near Banks. It prohibits inter Bank agreements on interest rates encourages formation of new by the institution ant in the Competition must ten per cent the architect s final fee. In a general Competition however Only the Cash prizes have to be awarded with first Arize going to the of he actual commission. Some of the directors of the Art gallery appear to have iwo objections to such a Competition. First it is feared that a Young unknown architect with an inadequate supervisory staff might win. Secondly there is a fear that the gallery would not have sufficient control Over final construction costs. The Normal procedure for conducting architectural com petitions overcomes both these problems. Competition rules usually require that a competitor who wins must associate himself with a local firm which meets the standards required by the selection jury. In addition the rules usually state the maximum sum that the competing architect is allowed to design for. There need be no fear that a limitation on Cost would Dis courage interest among competent architects. This Type of building with its Many artistic potentials is almost a dream assignment for a. Professional architect. A general Competition tends by its very nature to bring out makes such an agreement liable to of this Section however does not apply among other agree ments to one requested or approved by the it seems obvious that a min ister who Ilid not share or. Sharp s views on the subject of Competition could make the entire Section a nullity and without the least trouble. Banks not sharing the minis Ter s views would have the strongest incentive for apply ing pressure on the minister. It seems a dubious arrange ment and one which was most certainly not inspired by the combines investigation act. The bombing of installations Oil or otherwise around the key sentence of his statement was we must continue to raise the Cost 6t aggression at its source i.e., in North Viet its meaning was instantly grasped in View of the recent heightening of the to bomb or not to bomb debate among j o n lists administration contacts. The Only question remaining was when bombing would occur in the Hanoi Haiphong area and on precisely what targets. Articles to this effect immediately began to appear in the press. The president s words Well May foretell a Long deferred assault upon Petroleum storage facilities that ground and air military experts Long have said one major paper. Editorially on june 20. It then becomes curious Why the administration is in a snit Over one particular a Story by Wall Street journal diplomatic correspondent Philip Geyelin distributed Ori the Dow Jones news service wire on june 24, which said that a decision had been made to bomb the Hanoi Haiphong Petroleum facilities within the Hanoi and Haiphong has been next several a subject of continuous debate Lor Over a year. The debate has been carried on publicly by politicians and in the press and privately within the administration Between military advisers and political leaders. The administration has pleaded reasons of political strategy the need to avoid the appearance of escalation in order to prove America s peaceful intentions and to avoid confrontation with rus Sia or China. The military has pleaded the needs of War strategy and political opponents have pleaded the Virtues of american dependency on Superior american air and sea Power rather than on land Power where War in heavily populated far away Asia was concerned. The administration made its decision by the end of the first half of june. The decision a j essentially military but made with the full knowledge that its implications would be political that it Yould mean in the world s Eye a switch to a policy of military Victory from a policy of negotiated peace regardless of How much the administration protested otherwise. This decision was clearly transmitted to the press on the president was furious regarding this As a warning to North Viet Nam which would endanger american lives Dur ing the attack. He succed the Fri onto or. Geyelin to find what government official half leaked information to him. Fri director j. Edgar Hoover and attorney general Nicho Las Katzenbach visited the White House in this connection on june 25, and military officials made angry remarks in private about the press. But there were no special defence preparations made by North Viet Nam As a result of the Story. It had Only stated in rather More firm and specific terms what was already known in general terms. The Fri need not look very far for the Only leak that counted. It came from presi Dent Johnson on june 18 and was distributed As a printed transcript. Today s scripture draw near me with their Mouth and with their lips do Honor me but have removed 46eir heart far from Isaiah metro s retiring chairman the Best efforts of the proves who must meet the Challenge of other creative minds and at the same time solve p r a c t i c a i problems within a fixed budget com Peting architects will usually spend a longer period of time on the preliminary develop ment of. Such a design than they would normally in their everyday office practice. The classical Case of the Toronto City Hall Competition produced one of the most vital and creative buildings in Canada. This building has some mistakes of judgment but compare it with Winnipeg s City building which while it makes no enormous practical blunders has All the poetry of a typically dressed up office building. The Art. Gallery and the citizens of Winnipeg should accept nothing less than an outstanding work of architecture for their new museum of Art. Stivery once in a while that a a most fortunate Combina Tion of circumstances the right Man in the right place at the right time occurs in Public life. When it does astonishing things happen. The nearly impossible seems Sud Denly to become and barriers seem to lose their occlusive Ness and the Public interest flourishes such a congenial set of circumstances came into being in july 1960, when Premier Duff Roblin appointed r. H. G. Bonnycastle As chairman of the then still non existent metro Council. Metro was still nothing More than a Large volume of words added to the by Simmoni Manitoba statutes words remembered words from Sestina Ajtal Orie by Ezra Pound hell Grant soon we hear again the swords and the shrill weighs of destries in Battle rejoicing spiked breast to spiked breast opposing better one hour s Stour than a year s peace with fat boards bands wine and frail music Bah there s no wine like the blood s Crimson embodying sometimes clumsily often inadequately the metro act s authors Hope Ful blueprint for a better greater Winnipeg Community. What sort of a Man could successfully bring this new and slightly dazzling concept of local government into being who had the qualities needed to set this unknown new vehicle firmly on the rails and set it running straight and True when or. Bonnycastle was offered and accepted that first and most critical appointment Many of the would be canny municipal men about greater Winnipeg Shook their Heads in doubt. The new metro was bound to face the most United determined Anc experienced opposition Ever seen in the Manitoba Muni Cipal Arena. What was needed said t h e s e pc n o w i n g individuals was somebody who re a 11 y knew his political onions a pro at the game a past master of the gambits and angles a sort of Steve Juba with Superb administrative ability thrown in. After All the new chairman and the new corporation would Likely be facing the combined critical talents of 19 mayors and Reeves. Dick Bonnycastle was not and is not a political animal. But the doubters turned out to be wrong. For today six years almost to the Day after or. Roblin first handed him a copy of 1he metro act to study metro is a flourishing thriving amazingly efficient my useful entity. In six years with or. Bonnycastle s help metro has been translated from an idealized concept in to planners minds to a crisply functioning govern mental form which is regularly studied and admired by ocal government p 1 a n n e r s Erom All Over the continent. The Story of metro s growth its gradual take Over f Intel mule pal services and its evolution into its position today is Well known. What is much less Well known is the character of the Man who so significantly influenced its growth and by what methods he succeeded not Only in giving metro an administratively sound foundation but in turning the initial flood tide of criticism into Public acceptance. The answer to this question frustrates those of metro s critics who Are still tenacious in their anti metro stance and it will surely be debated again on or. Bonnycastle s let Ira ment next week. But at least a part of the answer surely Hes in or Bonnycastle s want of exactly those qualities of Politica sagacity which the Early Prog said metro would imperatively need. He knew nothing about the techniques of political in fighting. He Stol does t. And in the past six year that his quite probably been i greatest political advantage. He rarely lost his temper rarely retaliated even in the Ace of the most villainous by fair attacks and he offered , particularly in the first several years of metro s operation. But since be refused to be drawn into Battu the incipient quarrel died for. Want of nourishment. It takes two to make a fight and he would a t fight. Or. Bonnycastle s restraint during the Days when metro was suffering its most difficult times at the lands of hostile municipal politicians frequently amazed my puzzled the elected members of metro Council. Jut those metro staff members who knew him Best claim that restraint1 is a proper characterization of its silence i the face o attack. It was rather they say a turning away from sort of Public behaviour he simply did not understand. He did t know How to Deal with political duplicity or with blatant self interest in Public officials or with the rantings and Posti rings. Of politicians which to his mind served to Public purpose. So he did Deal with them. He had been assigned an enormously difficult and tremendously important task. So he turned his whole mind Anc the full Force of his formidable abilities to that. Ther a work to be done and h did it. He believed wholeheartedly that it was Geod an worthwhile work and Tiu. In of the metro concept would by Manifest and the critical storm would blow itself of he was right it was of course this Sam attitude that poses wer meaningless and performance that exulted that won for him he respect of metro s own employees. He worked hard voted to understanding Down to the finest details the operation or Scie tial function of each department and by example demanded the same dedication from is staff. For Many staff members the most popular Eward for service Well done and the suggestion will undoubtedly court or. Bonny Astle s derision was a glimpse of his exceedingly dry it devastatingly funny wit. It would probably startle Many of the people who have had Asual dealings with him to earn that. Employees who worked closely with him considered or. Bonnycastle a Man who was. Fun to work Good staff relations in metro s upper Echelon which n the Early Days at least seemed to happen almost without Effort were of Crit ical importance to an organization that was feeling its Way in new territory. So was the administrative skill which or. Bonnycastle applied to his work. They were to metro sound internal establishment at least As important As the effectiveness of is non resistance technique was in the corporation s external affairs. It has been greater Good first Winnipeg s extremely Fortune that metro s chairman should have filled his Multi faceted role so Well his performance will tie a most difficult one to follow and the Man that metro Council selects to succeed him is not to be envied. Or. Bonnycastle Kimseu has every on his retirement to feel a deep sense of satisfaction. He was give fun a very difficult Job to do. He has done it very wed ;