Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 29, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published daily except sunday by the Winnipeg free press company 300 Carlton John Sifton president Malone publisher end editor chief Peter Mclintock Maurice Western executive editor Ottawa editor Winnipeg free press january 1968 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights after the crisis it is painfully Clear in retrospect that the Canadian government miscalculated the results of the United states Dollar saving program at the finance minister Sharp said then that the measures enforced by president Johnson should have Little effect on within a heavy downward pressure on the Canadian Dollar had not because american policy offered any threat to this country but because foreign investors took fright and withdrew some of their they May have been quite in any Case the revived strength of the Dollar indicates that the Drain on hard currency reserves has moderated or but this strange with its grim memories of the last in should have taught the government that the problem of foreign investment is not simply a and technical it is also a psychological problem above a and Confidence is a very tender the government has nurtured it with the Assurance that the Canadian Dollar will not be that All the ample reserves behind it will be if to sup port As an added the Central Banks interest rate has been raised to the High figure of 7 per cent to in an inflow of capital and discourage an the United states government has cooperated by stating that it does not expect american subsidiaries operating Here to repatriate their earnings on any abnormal these joint moves in Ottawa and Washington seem to the possibility of devaluation for the time being at the Confidence of foreign investors has been at least but it could be quickly under this time with dangerous if the Canadian government showed any Trace of hostility to investment from the United it is in this context a special Cabinet committees report on investment will have to be while the consents of the report Are secret so Walter of the privy who chaired the says its findings will Appeal to All reasonable if this apparently it that they Appeal to the Cabinet had better be on its for his visceral anti americanism not Only has split the Liberal party in the past if it erupts could easily damage the sensitive climate of investors Confidence in the events of the last few Days have proved that this is no Timeto play games with the International Money Market indulge in Gordons favorite Hobby of pulling feathers out of the american eagles whatever the Cabinet committee has the timing of its and any action on should be considered against a peculiarly difficult when american investors already Are disturbed and their government is in the Middle of a grave military crisis involving Canada and the whole Western i dont know wot the news As done to but e aint needed a Bloomin drop of is physic Europe or the Atlantic the crisis in like the Canadian Dollar May but the need for fair treatment of foreign capital will crisis of Confidence will surely occur if Canada suspected of any antagonism the investors and on whom it depends for economic growth in Hie Long run and for the payment of its annual Trade deficit in the these it should be will make their own no matter what the Canadian govern ment May say or the american government can curtail private investment in other countries but cannot increase or even maintain it unless the investors Are willing to risk the psychology of Confidence is never entirely under any governments and so far As Canada is concerned nothing could be better calculated to erode Confidence than Gordons renewed attempt to influence National the government May repudiate his As it has of ten done in the Liberal party his old Power May but he is still the presiding officer of the Cabinet and a Symbol of aversion to foreigners who can not be expected to understand the inwardness of Canadian his reappointment to High office is now seen As one of pearsons worst mistakes from both a National and a partisan but it is Only one part of a much larger mistake for which the prime minister is not alone respond the whole and All parties in must share responsibility for the mistake of stretching the nations finances too thin and thus stretching investors Confidence at Home and the current dilemma was if outlined by Robert Winters in announcing his intended weve got to get Back he to the old fashioned concept of balanced budgets and fiscal integrity i deplore the fact that we have never been Able to balance the budget during this period of my tenure in in not one of those who believe that the wealth should not be fully because i firmly be Lieve in but we can distribute it Only to the extent that we generate a similar warning was sounded last week by Graham a former governor of the Bank of when he urged government action to restore con i Denlein the value and stability of the Dollar and said that unless governments give solid evidence of restraint there can be no stability in Canadas economic affairs or Confidence in the unfortunately the with the opposition in variably asking for has tried to distribute wealth not yet generated either by Domestic production or by foreign borrowing the inevitable consequence is the pay ment of Bills in shrunken some of it fresh from the printing if any Canadian imagines that foreigners have overlooked these facts in deciding to risk or not to risk their Money he underestimates their they to the last the revenues and expenditures of the they its state of political because this information is vital to and they cannot fail to be alarmed when they see a government quarrelling openly on financial a ruling party in the throes of a dubious leadership contest and a nation for Many to Trust either government or All these some some quite Unne Ces Combine to shake Confidence in a nation with sound could be the most stable and Trust worthy in the world by any As this months ugly experience has real stability and trustworthiness Are unlikely to be in Ade quate until Canada has elected a Strong majority government of one party or the today scripture to what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me Saitua the lord i am full of Burnt offerings of and the fat of fed beasts and i Delight not in the blood of or of Isaiah London in the after math of last weeks National there has been much talk of a new British emphasis on the planned Early withdrawal from East of Suez is to reduce the area of Britain military concern to the adjacent con and it is said that this will set the tone for National policy this has become known As a coming to terms with reality since Britain can no longer afford to be anything More than a european the reality of rather More complicated than this would Britain is exposed to numerous Cross currents resulting from the coincidence o f devaluation with her exclusion from the european common she is drawn toward greater involvement in the problems of Europe its Security and integration at a time when devaluation forces upon her a military and political contract at the same she is recoiling from the slamming of the common Market door by general de it is equally possible to oversimplify her position visa vis the United states Britain opting out of joint responsibilities East of Suez is Only one aspect of the Situa the attraction of Ameri Ca in the context of Trade is Felt increasingly As the result of the eco it is too Early to talk of a renewed Atlantic but due note has been taken of the fact that Britain partial exemption from the american curbs on foreign investment has increased the separation from Europe already implicit in the Gaul St in the upheavals of recent months have raised As Many questions for Britain leaders As they have granted that Britain is primarily a european what is her european ism to mean How will the govern ment come to terms with the common Market veto what will be its attitude to the German european and european american rivalry in the Mone tary sphere one possibility is a withdrawal into the so called Little England until such time As it proves possible to enter the common on the Trade this would mean falling Back on the european free Trade area and the remains by Tim Traynor British political thought is oscillating be tween a closer involvement with Europe and an Atlantic free Trade both proposals will be hotly debated in the coming of the Commonwealth preferential there might also be a revision of european policies to Cut nato troop costs and encourage closer relations with the communist this is essentially a passive approach and for that reason it is ill suited to the National there is a widespread belief that the right kind of Challenge would revitalize the Economy and arrest the de Cline in Britain it was such a Challenge that Britain sought in the common Market the Hope was that British Industry would be stimulated by increased european Competition and opportunities in a wider the closing of the common Market door has been a blow to this surge of but it is far from another Challenge that might provide a perhaps to the common Market is not ruled the problem is to find a formula which will not prejudice Britain political future in there is no doubt that an Atlantic free Trade comprising the United Canada and the Efta has won a Good Many supporters on its economic at a private meeting a quasi governmental figure of considerable importance came out strongly for the idea As a Way of putting pressure on the common British Industry would have All the Challenge it could handle at and in the United states British goods would have a competitive Edge Over those of the common in the View of this there was no alter native to such a free Trade Aiea but economic and Politi Cal he pointed out that Post Kennedy round tariffs Are not High enough to provide any real obstacle to american products entering and that to compete British Industry must have equal Access with american Industry to the huge United states the argument against the Afta idea is that it runs counter to the trend toward a Ukraine sorrow ukrainian marking the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of Ukraine in ended on it brought to Public notice the half Century of suffering of this Brave Only last week a statement from the danish Headquarters of the european Freedom Council listed the names of 12 prominent ukrainians held in a soviet concentration they include Sviatoslav Kar imprisoned since 1945 and recently sentenced to an additional eight years the almost Blind scientist Bohdan serving fou year term Vyaceslav a writer and newspaper sentenced to three years Only a few weeks and there Are Many other Camps with Many other victims of whom the world lacks precise the Liberal Community must pay Earnest attention to recent soviet policies As the european Freedom Council Points conceal distinct dangers of the people o recalling the Brief Promise of ukrainian Independence of will share lie sorrow of their fellow citizens of Ukrain Ian birthdays Winnipeg born North a january John Mani Toba born Mani january Arthur Ray Pilot Manitoba born bad january Europe Independent of both the United states and the soviet the Contention is that Britain must come to terms with this whether or not she because otherwise Europe will be irrevocably stamped with gaullist one fear is that the germans will assume the generals Mantle after his death with unforeseeable con according to this what is needed is a political initiative perhaps a proposal for a european political Community that would prevent the leadership of the putative Europe falling to the whether French or advocate by of this is one lord an influential elder on the defence there might be a recast ing of nato european lines along with More Fuller application of Britain air and naval equipment compensating for a scaling Down of american forces in an intensive debate is Likely in the coming months about relative merits of these schemes on the extent to which they Are mutually the opponents of Afta assume that it would clash with the kind of military and monetary developments now afoot in the idea is unquestionably out of tune with but it is not so Clear that it would not dovetail with less extreme european think in it would pro vide a focus for american participation in Europe other than this might be an important Factor in the recast ing of nato there is some fear now that the widely predicted cuts in american troops will be undertaken in a spirit of reprisal against general de Gaul Les attack on the such a Reform of nato would take the pressure off the world monetary since it improve the United states balance of pay last of three articles the Laws delays the Horsburgh affair by Tom Saunders Russell hours a United Church minister who had been convicted of contributing to juvenile delinquency and sentenced to one year in walked out of an Ontario courtroom a free his name the Horsburgh affair and its denouement invite speculation on the similarities and differences be tween this Case and that of Steven on the surface both cases Bear remarkable the original trial in each instance was the subject of much and in each Case there was a feeling in some quarters that Justice had both cases became celebrated through the publication of books claiming that All the evidence had not been sifted and advocating a new both went As far As the supreme court of and both Horsie Burgh and Steven Truscott were accorded in the Truscott Case the Federal Cabinet took the unprecedented step of order ing the supreme court to review its original findings in the Horsburgh affair the supreme court ordered a new trial at the original court at this Point the similarities the original Truscott verdict was upheld by the supreme court by an eight to one majority in the hours Burgh Case the original verdict was Steven after eight years Uncer remains faced with his sentence Russell after three years of petition ing and after 107 Days in prison has had his name but this is not the Only area of another is the nature and the intensity of Public when Isabel Lebourdais wrote the trial of Steven Truscott it was an immediate it won warm sympathy from a multitude of Promp Ted maps to make speeches in parliament and led the Cabinet to order a supreme court review of its in an attempt to do Truscott not Only was the supreme court asked to re consider its verdict but the government of Canada spent this information was tabled in parliament by just ice minister Trudeau in june the question remains As to Why there was not a similar in terms of Public opinion and parliamentary and Cabinet Verthe Horsburgh it is not enough to say that hours Burghs crime was legally less serious or that he was a less appealing figure than a 14yearold from the As his colleagues Book pointed there rumblings of with the verdict and claims that a miscarriage of Justice had taken perhaps the answer lies deep in the internal Workings of human it May have had something to do with the fact that Russell Horsburgh was a ministers Are supposed to be examples for other people to live they Are placed on a moral and spiritual As Long As they remain on their Pedestal they Are looked up but heaven help the individual so placed who Falls from that Pedestal or gives any indication of having feet of when that happens his most ardent admirers become his and those who were less than admirers find a Dogin themander satisfaction in the thought that one so highly placed has got his All of which does not alter the fact in the hours Burgh an innocent Man was wrongly sentenced and that he has suffered both incarceration and mental anguish for a crime of which he was found not nothing can repay him for the tortures he has the Restora Tion of his Good name and reputation cannot obliterate the three years of misery he has the which paid Little heed to his can offer now Only a belated sympathy and express its thankfulness though Justice came too late to be Complete a serious wrong has been it can express its that Russell Horsburgh has proved himself to be a big enough Man to Bear no ill foil owing his he said on Day of Victory i dont want to look i want to look to the my Faith is More enlightened and More reasonable than Manitoba theatre Centre in peril of Hamlet were alive today in Al Winnipeg and contemplating relations Between the Manitoba Centennial Corpora Tion and the Manitoba theatre he might Well be moved to remark something is Rotten in the City of or at least ill thanks to the Ham handed efforts of the corporation to fit the theatre Centre into the procrustes a bed of the Cul Tural Centre concept a concept Long abandoned by leading City planners All Over the world Mac stands in the Shadow of the greatest peril it has confronted in its ten year Rise to because of the timetable of the Richardson the Centre must leave its present premises at the end of the current season or soon there abandoning not Only the theatre itself but the carpentry properties the last Nail Ontario announced Deci Sion last wednesday not to participate in the Federal governments medicare pro Gram this year should be the last Nail in the programs at least As Xaras implementation in 1968 is Prince Edward Island and new Brunswick have already said that they cannot afford to take part in the Federal Quebec said some time ago that it doubted whether it could Alberta is dead set against some provisions of the Manitoba is equally if Only a couple out of the ten provinces announce their intention of going into the plan and these with a very Small fraction of Canadas Popula Tion then clearly the Federal government has no right or business to go ahead with it Public pres sure against implementation of medicare next july 1 is now to the Point where the govern ment will be committing political suicide if it proceeds against the wishes of a majority of the provinces and the by Tom Hendry one of the founders of the Manitoba the atre Centre has returned to Winnipeg and casts a critical Eye at plans for the centres shops and storage areas immediately plans Call for a new at Market and to be built during while this goes on the Centre will operate in what Ever premises Are available the the new con Cert in the fall of 1969 the new theatre will be a year of dislocation and inconvenience would be a Small Price for Many years of perfection in All things at Market and but there Are a couple of flies in the if the new theatre is to be ready by the the autumn of work must Start within three but the owners of the property on which the theatre is to stand have received Only desultory Apas far As can be not one foot of the 225 feet which the theatre centres architects were instructed by the corporation to base their designs on has been the occupied by a thriving business firm which will have to must be acquired within six weeks if con tracts Are to be in time to meet a construction Start dead line of May when the project was first a lure dangled before the Centre by the corporation was that costs of planning the integration of a new Manitoba theatre attached to the new could be after accepting the the Centre was told for various the planning costs could after be tile theatre centres Stan Dard of the High Quality of its designers and Are directly related to the fact that working while not Are convenient and this is largely because All production and administration activity is Loc ated at or adjacent to the the centres architects have turned out a design by using every Square Inch of the 225 feet authorized by the and even improves the centres present Happy Situa the Centre has agreed to the corporations request to Divide the plans into two phases the theatre with a frontage of 183 As a promised second the vital working but there Are current it is to be hoped that efforts have been made to acquire Only the 183 feet required for the not the 225 feet without which the Centre will cease to exist As it operates the legacy of new Yorks Lincoln Centre and other monuments to the concentration Carnap approach to Cul Ture is one of traffic jams at night and of violence during the Day purse snatching and beatings take place on the echoing plazas enclosing buildings that Are deserted All Day City planners now recommend put Ting theatres in areas where other events take in it has been Sug the Only place for a theatre is Between Eaton and the i am told that property is available in this area at less than half the probable Cost in the Market and rorie another available at no since the car which controls the prop erty on a first refusal basis is heartily in favor of a theatre on the could be the metro Park to be developed on the Assiniboine River when the present metro transit garage is the cars plans for the intensive development of 50 acres behind the Union station As a residential and business area will place an entire audience within walking distance of a theatre on the River planners agree that an entertainment area must have first rate restaurants and bars within walking distance of its the proposed theatre site lacks these amenities in the immediate neighbourhood and seems unlikely to get them in the theatres also need parking on a night when the new the playhouse the concert Hall All More than cars can be sex How Many can be parked in contemplated facilities less than 600 and Many of these will have to be parked farther away than Portage and to make the concentration Camp concept the corporation announced that the cultural Complex would be part of an Overall Riverbank development stretching from main Street to the red the new concert has been designed in such a manner As to make this Type of development difficult and since people dont like to congregate in front of vast windowless Back there Are other problems the toll in terms of morale on the part of theatre personnel who face at Best a year of dislocation and Fol Lowed by an Uncertain future the possible attrition inherent in a situation where an audience becomes homeless which is bound to cancel out much of the effect of ten years the knowledge that a mistake which future generations will have to live May be being if Winnipeg hold its position of prominence in the plans based on hard wan experience will have to be made and this can happen Only if the Centennial corporation listens to people who know what they Are talking about on the basis of competent announces a firm and prac tical timetable which will Benefit the theatre Centre and tile considerable part of our society whose cultural needs the Centre helps to ;