Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 17, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published Dally except sunday by the Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. Shane Mackay executive editor John Sifton president r. S. Malone publisher and vice Fres Dent associate Western Peter my unlock Winnipeg free press Winnipeg monday july 17, 1967 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights the old gospel no sensible voter expects a political party on taking office to implement exactly the promises made in opposition. Often it does precisely the opposite As has happened in Britain under a labor government. Too much should not be read therefore into the latest platform of the new demo cratic party which on careful examination shows no real change in ideology Only in window dressing. Besides the Prospect of a socialist government in Canada appears pretty Remote. The platform is a useful document All the same because it should Force the Canadian people to consider where they Are going in the nation s Basic business. At first sight the nip seemed at its recent convention to be executing a strategic Retreat if not from its original doctrines at least from the theory that the nationalization of Industry will solve All social problems. Since nationalization has become a discredited and almost dirty word throughout the Western world it was carefully avoided by the platform writers. In its place they inserted a rotund and Flocculent declaration which can and will be interpreted flexibly to meet the wishes of diverse voting groups. An nip government it says would increase the democratic control of Canada s economic Independence by Means of increased government participation in appropriate phases of Industrial and commercial life and by establish ment of a properly designed economic and social planning organization to supersede the present inadequate economic specifically the government would establish a fund from Public revenues or More Likely by the creation of printing press Money and invest this capital in Indus try to the Public sector of the Economy As a Means of increasing Canadian stripped of political verbiage this Means nationalization. A government owning any fraction of an Industry will certainly insist on running it. The title deeds even if most of them Are held by private investors will Means Little or nothing. The state partner must be the dominant partner with the whole apparatus of state policy behind it. Max Saltsman my who introduced these plans to the convention left no Doum of their actual intent. The government might expropriate All or any major industries outright it might own Only a minority of their Stock or none but it would Issue directives to All of them through the reformed and Regnant economic Council. What if they disobeyed the directives discussing the subsidiaries of foreign companies that allegedly refuse to ship goods to certain communist countries or. Saltsman gave an admirably candid answer the Canadian govern ment can say. You will ship you will obey the Laws of Canada or you will leave this country and we will take Over your company this naked threat of expropriation might Well alarm foreign investors if they expected the nip to after expo what by Stan Mcdowell Quei of Xebec City the theme the annual party con Gress of Quebec s Provin Cial liberals this fall is to be Quebec after it does t Tell much about the Congress. Since the gather ing is being held in Quebec after expo All the theme really says is Here and but it does Tell a lot about the uncertainty hanging Over Quebec this summer. The question on most minds is after expo and nobody politicians especially wants to do any heavy betting on what the answer will be. The subjects of concern Are the classic ones for Quebec another thing to experience it As Many Are experiencing it More forcibly than Ever be fore. Some have been More con Vinced than Ever that they want to run their own purely French country. Letters to the editors of Montreal news papers have been complaining that English language has been Given too Large a place at expo. But others How Many there is no Way of knowing Are increasingly persuaded that if Quebec is to be open to the world outside this open Ness must include the people living just beyond the Borders As Well As those across the economics i Atlantic. As for Canada and nationalism. Nationalism has been in a state of suspension since Spring. During the expo honeymoon most separatists have been relatively quiet. They say that expo is Demon Strating Quebec s capabilities to the world building up Goodwill and respect that an Independent Quebec would need. The Opportunity is too Good to spoil they believe. Expo has for the time being swept poli tical and economic problems under the car pet in Quebec but when the exhibition closes in the fall they will creep out again. No matter How the rather abstract arguments of the fact that this View has nationalism emerge from the Cash or Post dated cheques spy drama in Whitehall j prevailed at least up to now suggests that the Cool tacticians have so far had the upper hand Over the angry radicals who looked Forward to expo As a Chance to show the world How French Cana Ondon As. Respecting any self i thriller fan i by Tim Treynor knows London is where spy j ing came into Flower. It was j Here against the backdrop of _ the Crenell ated Maze of gov-1 express an implacable Ern ment buildings known As Tlle labor Eoveno Whitehall that the mystique of the glamorous so Crit agent i pm acc by the Canadian born lord Beaverbrook. The author of the original Story was the paper s outstanding defence correspondent Chap Man Larryl Pincher. Scrutiny by officialdom. The minister voiced fears that the source of this Story was t he j Radcliffe judgment would erode the a notice system to the detriment of Security. To the Shock of maps he claimed the express Story had been ment Long used As a Mouth developed and fir a flourished. There was to e behind it than raw imagination too. Whose mind does not respond to names Vassall heeler i Rioe Davies and Ward All characters from i cent british1 history they in a real Milieu not basically different damaging in that it could harm Security activities currently in Progress. It was not possible to Tell whether lives had been endangered but in parliament next Day i the possibility could not be take office and might quickly dry up the capital inflow needed to develop Canada s resources and pay its daily from the world housekeeping Bills. There is no noticeable alarm at the Bond and co. The reality had prime minister Harold Wilson l charged that the express Story which had dominated the ruled out. He linked his state ments to a top secret Agency attached to the foreign office j and dealing with International front Page and had spoken of j Ana dealing Wim big brother methods was i relations. To implied that the moment because the threat is issued by a Small splinter party far from office. But it should be understood by canadians who think of the nip As a mildly reforming movement now purged of its old hot socialist gospel. The foreign subsidiaries would be seized by the Cana Dian state if they did not obey its instructions. As an honest Man or. Saltsman will not deny that the same sanctions would apply to Canadian industries if they Dis an Impact All of its own. But then that s usually the win reality. Inevitably the Liritis Public has become pretty Blase about the ways of the spying i sensationalized inaccurate whole area was so sensitive Clear breach of two full information about it was not even made available the Radcliffe committee. A this last of resigning when the prime minister mentioned him. Lie immediately challenged the prime minister to repeat his remarks while not covered by the protective cloak of parliamentary privilege. He won wide sympathy. The times spoke of the prime minister s pitiless innuendo and two of the Radcliffe committee broke with Conven Tion to cry foul. Or. Wilson once again found the opposition at his Throat and was obliged to offer to let the Liberal arid conservative Lead ers examine the files on col. Lohan which had provided the basis for his remarks. After perusing the Docu was in effect Diane were Downtrodden country. Exploited in their and what the separatist leaders and those of other parties too Are now waiting to see is the effect expo itself is having on Quebec s people. Expo has shown what French speaking and English speaking canadians working together can accomplish. It has undoubtedly made Many members of each people take a new look at the capabilities and Persona Lity of the other. That the express had this disclosure paved the Cut Uvo strands in a Way for it vote of fraternity. There is a notable apathy about new revelations j in general and the latest j revelations in particular. Obeyed. So it should be applied if the premise of state is unfortunate the control Over to e while Canadian society is accepted. Once test disclosures arising out . Ordes its government to manage everything it must of what has come to be called. The Issue of a notices which has rocked the Wilson government has All the attributes of a James Bond Story. Allow the government the essential Means of management including Complete nationalization where in appears Neces sary in the government s discretion. Doubtless in Many cases it will be judged unnecessary. The state does not have to own an Industry entirely to manage it by indirect pressure and total state management is the primary objective of the nip platform. No one need be surprised by this policy nor should the nip be ashamed the a notice affair deserve safety net developed Over the attention. The issues raised Are More significant than years by the Pross and the government to suppress might be suggested by the stories which might jeopardize desultory political controversy the affair has generated. Briefly Here is the Back ground. Last february 21, the National newspapers ran a Story claiming cables and Siors Dunning causes Ami fit. Without total state management the party has no win Pine 1.outinc. Purpose distinguishable from those of other parties and a picked frown Cap of pcs for existence at All. Yet the rededication of the nip to its original doctrine with a few vague words of reassurance to private owners comes at a curious time. A socialist government in Britain entire pre election program has tacitly abandoned nationalization As a working principle has Frozen the Economy for a year and now when the freeze begins to thaw obviously does not know How to prevent another Exchange crisis later on. It is certain about one thing however. Somehow it must attract private capital into business and the renovation of obsolete industries. Thus in the Wilson government the nip has lost its old idol and will hardly continue As in the past to Promise a Canadian duplicate of the British Experiment. While Britain has renounced the socialist cure All a parallel process is under Way in West Germany until recently the mos. Prosperous nation in Europe. A coalition government containing the socialist party has suddenly been compelled to Cut Back its spending even on social welfare because it has been trying for years to do More than its real Means allow Ana has Over strained the Economy. At the some time communist Russia is quietly smuggling the profit motive and other capitalist heresies into its Industrial system to make it work More efficiently. These vivid lessons Are not mentioned in the nip s new platform or in the speeches of its orators. One might suppose that Canada enjoyed a unique immunity from the mistakes of other nations which once counted on the Wisdom of the slate to remedy All social ills. One might suppose too that Canada vitally dependent on foreign capital could afford to threaten it with dire penalises and still expect it come Here in sufficient volume. Nevertheless the nip convention will not have wasted its time whether it won additional votes or not if its purposes Are now understood by the Public which can judge them for itself. And delivered to Whitehall for remembered words from Amoretti by Edmund Spenser men Call you fayre and you Doe credit it for that your self be Dayly such Doe see stale Security endanger the lives of government agents or Compromise the work of secret intelligence services such As mi5 and 6. The d for defence notices circulars Rii Awn up by a joint press government commit tee and sent to All editors set out in ments the opposition leaders persisted in their criticism of or. Wilson claiming that his was an unwarranted attack upon the integrity of a civil servant who could not defend himself. Col. Lohan has charged that he was a victim of a plot aimed at showing that he conspired with Chapman Pincher to leak the original support for the govt Inmei t by Story to the daily express. He the labor majority. If the his charge with prime minister had said Noth incidents of several years ago ing More the political dust Wincn it had been suggested would Likely have settled j tilt la an overdose instead or. Wilson made relationship with or. Puncher reference to the Secretary of the a notice committee colonel l. G. Lohan in such a Way As to Call into question his role in the affair. It was col. Lohan s Job to advise the express As to general terms the of a Soulor Tho Story the paper was proposing to publish was covered by a notices. He had been intimately involved throughout the affair and had secret information whose publication might be damaging. Obviously by raising the d notice Issue or. Wilson opened up a whole Range announced his intention questions. Had there been a breach of Security was it serious enough to endanger lives or Aid foreign spies the and other newspaper men. To this or. Wilson s critics have retorted that it was col. Lohan s Job to have close relations with newspaper men. The criticism of the prime minister became so virulent that or. Wilson had to give in and has now offered another commission to investigate the colonel s role in the affair. First of two articles but it is not Only other canadians that Quebe cers a j meeting at expo. Before the fair opened the talk in Quebec was All about the four Corners of the world coming to the Valley of the St. Lawrence. And if one can judge by the speeches that were made and articles written on the subject Quebe cers were thinking most about visitors from other continents and particularly from lands where French is spoken a a first or second language. One of the great subjects of concern was what the French speaking Peoples of the world would think of the Quality of French spoken and displayed in Montreal. But the reality is that the vast majority of expo visitors from outside Quebec Are English speaking americans and English speaking canadians. Quebe cers have always known that they lived among a sea of anglophones. But it is one thing to know that As a demographic statistic. It is Concrete experience of expo hey Are not the Only reasons to wonder about Quebec after october. The economic Outlook is Uncertain. After the pre expo Binge construction has fallen off. Drastically in Quebec. That Means a serious drop in the number of openings for unskilled and Semi skilled work ers of whom there Are too Many in Quebec s labor Force. A fall in the world demand for aluminium is a setback to one of Quebec s greatest industries. Production was Cut Back at two Quebec smelters in june. The packaging in Justry a weather vane sen a Stive to the economic winds has found demand poor this year in Quebec. And the establishment of new Industry i in the province has been slow j some new activity is promised the province has a network of secondary schools to build. Montreal plans to get on with Long delayed slum clearance. But the balance so far appears unfavourable. Will the issues of constitutional change and nationalism shunted aside after expo in favor of More immediately compelling problems like jobs and wages or will harder times if harder times come intensify the nationalist spirit As has often happened in the no one in Quebec is too certain what answers the province will give after october. But provincial Politi Cal leaders in government and opposition Are insisting on a c showdown with Ottawa and holding the exist ing confederation responsible for Many of Quebec s economic weaknesses. That shows it least what answers they v. Ant. Today s scripture Bear be one another s Bur Dens and so fulfil the Law of Christ. Galatians Pincher Story had mentioned but the True fayre that is the i Security without going into gentle wit i detail but there was a Sugges and virtuous mind is much i Tion of something deep and whatever happened to Simon Legree More prayed of me for All the rest How Ever fayre be shall turn to nought and Loose that glorious hew dark in the prime minister s reaction. The impression persisted despite his Assurance practice of Cable described in the fir Cher article had gone on but onely that is permanent for 40 years. 0 and free from Frayle corruption that j doth flesh Bensew. That is True Beautie that doth argue you to be divine and borne of heavenly seed Deriv d from that fayre spirit from whom Al True and perfect Beauty did at first proceed he onely fayre and what he fayre hath made. All other fayre Lyke Flowers untimely fade. I the ruling Junta have a noun 5 Joan ced that Melina Mercouri the greek military the new government seems to be at some pains to make Greece a laughing Stock. With the anti Beard anti mini skirt anti classic drama rulings behind them the idiots who make up birthdays mrs. E. Bowling Winnipeg born Leeds Yorkshire eng land july 17, 1874. Alex Ken Nedy Winnipeg born White Church Ontario july John d. Fortune Gilbert Plains Manitoba born Wing Ham Ontario july 17, 1885. 1 actress will be stripped of her greek citizenship. Miss Mer Couri at present in new York where she is appearing in a musical comedy based on the film never on sunday has been critical of the new dispensation in her native land. Miss Mercouri however appears to be unimpressed by the rumblings of a few jacks in office. Let them make a Joan of ail of she says. Miss Mercouri is not a woman to trifle with. The generals had better beware. Why does t anyone ask who i d like to vote such considerations were pushed into the however by the reaction to the prime minister s attack on the daily express. A number of the most prestigious papers declared that a notices did not appear to apply to the express Story and the paper was justified in printing the item. There were charges that or. Wilson was attempting to damage the express for Politi Cal reasons. In the end he was pressured into setting up a tribunal of investigation consisting o f lord Radcliffe Dean of British investigators and two former defence ministers one conservative and one labor. But significantly the tribunal was not instructed to hold a Complete inquest Only to decide whether the express Story was factually wrong and whether there were a notices worded in such a Way clearly to cover the Story. The committee s judgment on the limited questions put to it was generally favourable to the express. The government rejected these findings How Ever. On the Day the Radcliffe report was published Early in june a government White paper was issued reiterating or. Wilson s original claims. Pressed to explain the government s action the prime Ottawa it is disturbing at this time of soaring Centennial Confidence to read in a respected Toronto news paper a talc which bound to raise doubts about the moral Fibre of Canadian mortgage men. As every red blooded Prairie boy knows the mortgage men came West hard behind the first settlers. What they failed o accomplish in the earliest Days As recorded in Tom mix they completed in the 1930s. It must have been unnerving work driving through Black blizzards from farm to farm expelling the occupants building Toronto and creating our own legend comparable More or less to the american Saga of Simon Legree. By Maurice Western widows from rapacious com Pany men a Toronto couple seems i obtained a mortgage of from Mutual life Assurance company of Canada. With this they purchased a House there is a fairly widespread impression based on occasional harrowing stories about widows and orphans that the old spirit is far from dead. But have we taken too much for granted among the mortgage men now socialists at heart has there been an insidious sapping of the will to foreclose has Simon Legree gone soft Here in any Case Are the facts As uncovered by the Globe and mail. Back in 1327, when or. Mix was practically alone in the business of rescuing Beautiful have been expended for Stamps envelopes and Christ Mas cards. By 1959 the thought occur red to some company executive that this practice was at a recent non harrowing Story out of Toronto indicates that mortgage men Are not what they used supposedly to be. Variance with the great tradition of the mortgage men As understood by the mortgaged Public. It was accordingly stopped. After this callous action the company settled Down to eight years of reflection in which it was apparently joined by the tax deprived Council of the Borough of York. The City fathers showing mortgage men have taken in such cases As every nip title to the dwelling. But the now valued at for some years All went Well and the time came As it does even with the Best managed companies when the principal began to decline until it reached the insignificant total of s625. Then in 1949 the couple separated and the payments stopped. So did the payments on property insurance. Tax and fire student knows a race develops Between the sheriff Bent on seizing the furniture and the mortgage Man Bent on fore closure. But something went badly wrong in Toronto neither apparently got As far As the starting line. What happened was that the company wrote letters. Owing to Lack of co operation by the lady in residence this was a one Way correspondence. The mortgage men finding this then decided to meet the payments. So the company paid and went on paying for 10 years. It paid in fact until it had parted with not coun Ting such Small sums As May lady now aged 75, remains in Possession and no one apparently has any thoughts of eviction. For everyone except the lady the situation fairly bristles with difficulties. Look at the matter through the harried eyes of the mortgage men. First there is the matter o the which has been increasing with unpaid inter est in a manner which looks encouraging on paper. By there is also the Ontario limitations act which puts a 10-year limit on actions to recover mortgage debts. What with Law and compassion the company according to its spokesman is not claiming anything. Nor after is years of unrequited correspondence is it prepared to Send a Black mustachioed minion to risk Rebuff at the tradesmen s Entrance. Its Hope is that the sterner men of the Borough will in some Way persuade the lady o accept other accommodation. This accomplished the com Pany could apply for title under a Section of the Munici pal affairs act applying to property taken Over for taxes. The thought then is that the House might be sold with the company deducting for taxes and mortgage balance and turning the rest Over to its present difficult occupant. But the Borough has Dif Ferent ideas. According to its treasurer such claims Are rarely allowed by the depart ment. The lady it is consid ered should be left in posses Sion As Long As she wishes. After that the Borough Hopes to sell the House reclaiming its taxes and paying the bal Ance to you know whom. Where does this leave Simon Legree out on the ice floes presumably wondering if he is being pursued by Little Eva. Or it May be that in these Days of manpower mobility the Simon degrees have All been drawn into or. Benson s Revenue department. While they Hunt Down the peasantry companies must rely for the management of mortgages on Friendly compassionate types. Any Reader who cares to test this theory proceeds at his own risk ;