Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january 1968 frenc Canadian newspapers speak out on current issues this is a selection of editorials on current translated from the French language press of m o n c t o n France has extended a very respectful Welcome to four acadians whom general de Gaulle invited to Paris so they could inform him of the prob lems facing our ethnic the Mere fact that they were received by general de Gaulle himself demonstrates the importance the Mother country attaches to the visit of our we on this Side of the Atlan tic Are gratified by this we have heard some Hothead emitting wails of despair on the but More levelheaded wont formulate an opinion until the results of the visit Are intelligent More Hope the voyage will prove a our group needs help if it is to survive and and it is Admira ble that France wishes bring us but while i find the French gesture i can Only deplore the fact that a Politi Cally foreign country must come to the Aid of one of the richest countries in the once this gesture Points up the incompetence of when will we see the Federal government sufficiently Strong and Well structured to assume the functions devolving upon it when will All citizens of Canada have the rights accompanying citizen ship is that asking the impossible Jacques Quteau 11 in m pro it Ottawa be Droit in the Field of International one must not confuse culture with for Heads of state to come to Canada to Lay Down the hence to stir up is in accept Lebut it is very logical and quite acceptable that these same Heads of in a burst of offer us their assistance in the Field of this is exactly what French president de Gaulle has done for the Benefit of the Hardy acadian while we can not say just what he will offer to the one thing is certain whatever he offers them will be of it Al most goes without saying for political the new Brunswick authorities Arent hoping for an Early visit from the French head of they Arent Likely to shy away from any Generoso ties any Aid France might bring to the acadians would also be desirable and useful for the French speaking residents of As recently As de in fact several months before the Ontario minister of education announced in Toronto that the education department is plan Ning to bring to the province teachers and professors from at a time when Frenchman Guage Public High schools Are to open in Ontario and when the universities of Ottawa and Sudbury Are to Noth ing could be better than to have an influx of French University our teach ing and to a cer Tain extent those of can no doubt Supply a Good number of instructors and but this wont be sufficient if we Are to provide our schools and universities with the number of qualified instructors they should the Ontario government Hopes to see the first of these teachers arrive from France next we have no time to lose in negotiating All the necessary above we must not take Issue with government and in like the Aca Dian took Initia Tives identical to those Al ready begun by Marcel Gingras 12 Quebec weather has turned cold and Energy minister Pepin has taken advantage of it to receive a glacial Welcome upon his arrival in at the same the representatives of Canadas French speaking population be they Quebec minister Jeannoel Tremblay or the acadian delegation were getting re carpet treat ment in the French All this Doest arise from a a Divann of Compono super discounts on extra special bargains while they last tuesday Only mens permanent press sport shirts Long and regular collars in assorted Plain k Mart Price special discount Price women Lacey shells assorted Bright Spring colors in sizes compare at special discount Price one Day Only one Day Only Snow shovels lightweight aluminium Blade durable Quality 4 Comfort balanced 4 k Mart Price special discount Price one Day Only Valentines jumbo Pale for boys and girls 45 Valentines per assortment includes Valentines for compare at 49c special discount Price one Day Only first Quality merchandise All items personal shopping Only Crestview shopping Centre a South Dale mall shopping Centre i39j Portage at on Highway 1 East in Assiniboia on South of Windsor Park policy of improvisation French politics today entail varied assortment of affronts to the Canadian we Only distort the facts if we try to reduce Frances intentions in Quebec to a matter of exploitation of uranium de France is obviously trying to Widen the beachhead on North american soil that time has conserved for her motives we dont see Why France would not want to give to the North american world the same kind of Medicine she has been taking confronted with the american presence in eur general de Gaulle is trying without shame to reply with a French presence in other motives All militate towards the same but it certainly int Nec Essary to make us Quebe cers feel guilty about half the countries of the world live on the fruits of a kind of blackmail they practise on the United states and kind of and we Are suddenly begin Ning to realize that Paris is allowing us to play a similar How can we reproach France for this soviet Diplomat to soothe Castro by Victor Zorza special the guardian the Kremlin has appointed one of its most senior Alexanda to be the new ambassador to in what is evidently intended As a major Effort to improve relations with Fidel a former ambassador to is now a Deputy foreign minister in mos his Brief evidently does not include any instructions to mollify Premier for pravda made it quite Clear last month that the soviet Union does not recognize the Validity of cuban sold atoms task will therefore be to persuade Premier Castro that he is wrong something that nobody has yet managed to the pravda article last month was an indirect reply to Prem Ier castros complaint that Russia was trading with the enemy that the oligarchic regimes of latin America and thus shoring up a system which the latin american revolutionaries were trying to pravda retorted that soviet Trade with latin Ameri can countries served to reduce their Servile dependence on foreign monopoly but this is bound to remain a pious Hope for some for the soviet share of the Trade is the Market is and the soviet Union needs partly because its goods can find no willing buyers in the More industrialized the soviet Union also needs or so pravda says such latin american products As Cocoa since its purchases rom latin America exceed its exports to the it is in the soviet unions interest to in crease its exports to the oligarchies in order to achieve a balance of and o conserve the foreign currency of which Russia is always this soviet Trade with latin America amounted in 1966 to Only 178 million rubles while soviet Trade with As 3ravda did not fail to Point stood at million Premier Castro was presumably meant to regard this As a hint that he had nothing to complain he made a speech in that Russia was starving him of last year Cubas fuel con sumption Rose by eight per cent but supplies increased by Only two per rationing lad to be and even he sacred reserves of the orces had been eaten 3uba cannot buy Oil from dry ice fights fog Oslo special the guardian the norwegian weather makers have scored a notable during the first serious bout of Winter fog in they kept the capitals air port open to traffic by spreading finely powdered dry ice from Small the ice and water particles in the fog combined to form Snow and the fog literally Down to when the method was first 10 passenger aircraft were circling above Oslo waiting for the weather makers have flown All were Able to land safely within 45 when the fog had in each the weather makers Nave flown the last 15 Miles of the Landing course and battered the fog with ice three or four an airline Captain said it was fascinating to we watched As the fog gradually assumed a Darker tone and we were Able to see the land under we went in for Landing and could see that the fog was much less dense in front of the visibility was above on both sides of our ice powdered corridor the fog was just As dense As before the weather makers had been after having been pow dered with ice the fog thickens gradually for about 15 to 20 minutes and then the snowfall the method is More Likely to be successful the colder it Twenty eight degrees above Zero is considered to be the highest temperature at which Success can be but the method is thought to be workable even at 31 another method was tried two years ago when fog threatened to Stop the world championship ski jumping Competition in h o 1 m e n Only five Miles from Oslo in that Experiment the weather makers used the fog did but the resulting snowfall was so heavy that not Only was the Competition stopped but the Airport had to close for three hours until the runway could be with powdered the snowfalls have been Only moderate so Western because it lacks the foreign As Premier Castro put russian ability to Supply Oil Cuba in accordance with our needs is limited but the Kremlin no make a special Effort if its ally proved Worth perhaps it is Soldatova task to convey something of this of any suggestion of threats or bar which a Man of Premier castros revolutionary rectitude would never it is clearly a task of great Cuba has refused to have anything to do with a meeting at the end of next month in Budapest in preparation for the world communist since Cuba was originally a member of the sponsoring com its recent defection has proved a considerable embarrassment for the soviet certainly a few Tanker loads of Oil would be a Small Price for Russia to pay to persuade Premier to change his taken each of these elements Doest amount to what is essential is that French Canada As is has several allegiances it is bound from All in the Cana Dian context it remains tied to the economic Power of the United but to this is added a new source of cultural this new link forces those who assert that Quebec nationalism manifests our isolationist to think up to in asserting ourselves even we have broken no old on the con our Pride forces us not to place All our eggs in the same aware of North american economic we Are playing the economic aware of the necessity of ensuring the growth of our we Are taking up in All seriousness the game of cultural in All we find the exact opposite of isolationism Laurent la Plante 12 Granby la void de private investment remains the principal motor of the Quebec this statement from the Premier of the combined with his assertion that a policy of economic Sel Suffi Cliency would be disastrous for constitutes a warning against the All too widespread notion that constitutional change will automatically improve our economic in cannot afford to isolate itself from the economic life of the North american a state such As that envisaged by Many separatists is not i the answers Are Tobe found As much on the Economy ical level As on the political should Quebec seek in any other context an answer to its it would be risking the loss of everything it has succeeded in up to we agree with Premier in comparing the economic setup of the continent to a hockey it is illusory to think thai we can set aside for ourselves a Corner of the rink where the rules of play will be the Only result of such an at tempt would be from the we we Are All Rise to the learn to play the game openly and in the Way the others play we will simply constitutional re form is in order to Correct in but for the Resolution of its difficulties Quebec must also fight on the eco nomic level by favouring Pri vate it is in this that the province will find the real solution to a major por Tion of its without the support of Pri vate Enterprise Quebec cannot Hope for a single in Stant to set its Economy and to ensure for its Popula Tion a Standard of living com parable to that of the North american and to obtain this invest ment essential to the develop ment of its Quebec has no must play the same game As the others Gagne looking for lower 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