Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 7, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday. February 7. Consular pact debate hinges on red Aims i conc Sio in the Lombardy Section of Italy was the birth place of Pope Paul i. It is Only 40 Miles from Sotto in where Pope John Xxiii was born. By Walter Lipoma inn Washington special tons _ in its substance the consular convention with the soviet Union which is now up for ratification by the Senate is of relatively minor practical significance. All it would so it to make Trade and tourist travel Between the two countries safer and More convenient. It has no real relation to the question of espionage. But because of the opposition to it including that of the director of the Fri. The ratification of this Conven Tion has been blown up into a test of whether or not the United states can proceed to work out better relations with the soviet Union. The contest Over ratification turns on a question of great importance to the whole conduct of . Foreign policy. It is whether International communism is still essentially the same conspiracy which it was understood to be -20 years ago after the second world War. The hard opponents of the consular convention be Lieve that the soviet Union or wins restful hearing by John Heath american Folk Singer Pete a Cager. Played before a full House at the playhouse theatre during the weekend and received enthusiastic applause for his songs. His instruments included Banjo guitar and flute. He retained audience enthusiasm throughout the two hour con Cert. Or. Seeger walked off stage to loud applause and shouts of More he played an extra number. Or. Seeger is known to millions of North americans for songs like Little boxes where have All the Flowers gone. If i had a Hammer and we shall overcome. He has publicly advocated american withdrawal from Vietnam and. At the concert he expressed his views about this in a song entitled the big Muddy. The setting is Louisiana in i 1942 and a platoon of american troops Are wading through a swamp on manoeuvres. But it soon became Clear As he Sang the number it referred to Vietnam. The song received a big applause and Many laughs from the audience largely University students. But. Despite the anti War theme of Many of his songs or. Seeker denies he is a pacifist. He said As much in another song entitled. If you love your Uncle Sam bring them for most of the evening or. Seeger dealt with songs not connected with Vietnam songs composed in nazi concentration Camps and one written by a latin american revolutionary one Hundred years ago. I i began his performance j playing Light hearted Canadian Folk songs dealing with such subjects As a worker in Northern Ontario fighting off the Black flies and another about a girl married to an old Man. Or. Seeger. Best known As a controversial Folk Singer has termed controversy relative. For example he. Says a mini Ster could hold a Beautiful Church service which by itself in t controversial unless held in a different Church. The trouble with a lot of Folk music is that producers Are still scared to present anything rough crude or improvised and often this is the real stuff of Folk music. Hootenanny failed because everything had to be pretty refined and Incontro he said. Today is no different than it was in the time of Lenin or Stalin. The hard proponents of the escalated War in Vietnam believe that the real adversary is the inter National communism of the Post War Era. Two testify last week the Senate foreign relations committee heard testimony on these questions from two distinguished diplomats and scholars. The first was. George Kennan who is Gen pral y regarded As the Lead ing american authority on soviet communism. The second witness was Edwin Reischauer. Until recently ambassador to Japan who Lias known the far East All 1iis life. Or. Kennan told the sen ate committee that the 20 year old picture of communism was no longer a True picture. Or. R Sehauer told the committee that the current official Conception of . Relations with Asia is mistaken both threat of communist China and As to the Power and influence of the United states. If messes. Kennan and Reischauer Are right then a successful foreign policy cannot be formed in the . Until there has been a re education of the Amer ican people starting with government officials. Many of us would be helped in our thinking about the problems of soviet american said or. Kennan. If we could free ourselves from the abnormal sensitivities and reflexes to which the extreme tensions of earlier decades have led and teach ourselves to think about Russia As simply another great world Power with its own interests and concerns often necessarily in conflict with our own but not tragically so _ a Power different in Many respects but perhaps no longer in essential ones from what Russia would have been had there been no communist revolution in that country 50 years classic doctrine m r r of Shauer s pcs Homay was deeply at variance with the current offic Ial Conception of . Role in Asia. He to d the committee that we should seek to minimize our military involvement and military commitments in in saying this he was adhering to the classic american doctrine of no land War on the asian continent which was breached by president Kennedy and completely abandoned by president John son and state Secretary Rusk. As against the former Secretary John Foster Dulles and Secretary Rusk or. Reischauer said we should not try to induce most asian countries to align themselves formally with he said we should not sponsor political social or economic change in asian countries though we should be responsive to requests from them for Aid we run serious and unwarranted dangers when we take the initiative in sponsoring important internal changes in asian lands or when our influence becomes so preponderant that we assume responsibility for the exis tence or nature of a re these arc weighty utter ances which cannot easily be dismissed. They should not be ignored and every Effort must be made to acquaint the american people with them. For it would be impossible to name any two living americans who can speak with greater or even with com parable authority about the problems confronting the . With the soviet Union and with the countries of Asia. Copyright hs7 Ridley College the head master of Ridley College or. Ontario expects to be in Winnipeg on 14 15 March 1967 at that time pm would in meeting parents who Are interested in the possibility of their son s attending Ridley. Such parents Are to writ at a. T. E. V. B. Pilgrim . Head matter Ridley College St. Catharines Ontario 1 open tonight 1im or a tier income tax Wii my we try m Oom Fulte yer i Mem who savw4os smart North Winnipeg 1010 main 1st. Amu i 25m Portacio i last Kildonan 921 min Dimon St. Ioni Fack 220 St. Mary s Road citral Winn Pic m Shirbrook St. Pm. Weekdays . To . Sat. To no appoint mint Nici Hart .1. C. Cummings who was. Elected president of hip association for retarded children in greater Winnipeg. K e. Mccaskill is past presi Dent mrs. C. J. Chester and k. K. Porter Are vice presidents Lois Fry is Secretary and Dabalus g. Scott treasurer. Report on Ronning denied Ottawa affairs minister Martin skirted a direct reply when he was asked in the commons monday whether North Vietnam has extended peace feelers to the i United states through Canada i or. Martin told opposition s Leader Diefenbaker that Ottawa has consulted during the last few Days with the . And oth a governments. I jut Canadian efforts could be successful Only if they remained confidential. Or. Martin also denied a re port that retired Diplomat Chester Ronning May have to be dropped As a special envoy to North Vietnam because of his outspoken criticism of . Actions. I or. Martin said or. Ronning had established a Channel to Hanoi last March and june. It was still open and we Are pre pared to use it when satisfied there is some slightest reason for it to be used Canada will be in continuous Contact the North Vietnam Ese government or. Martin concluded. Protest. Clip this Bikini and join us for a Bright and livelier world. We think so too. 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