Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published daily except by Winnipeg free press company 300 Carlton John Sifton president Malone publisher and editor chief Peter Mclintock executive editor Maurice Western Ottawa editor Winnipeg free press january Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion to Equality of civil rights unhelpful Resolution Liberal spokesmen in other provinces have1 been Quick to disown the Quebec liberals approved in Montreal Over the that the monarchy should be abolished in Canada and the office of governor general replaced with that of an elected president of a Republic of the liberals dismay at the passing of such a Resolution is it will not help the party in any part of the country and it will strengthen of the conservative opposition in the next election Cam undoubtedly will try to tar the entire Liberal party of Canada with the Montreal As forestry minister Sauve said this will give the liberals no additional seats in Quebec and it will create problems liberals outside specifically the Resolution represents the views of just Quebec there were delegates at the Montreal conference Only 250 were in the Hall when the vote was taken the was 135 33 one represents less than a tenth of the delegates at the a very Small fraction of Quebec an insignificant fraction of strength in Why then did the Resolution pass it according to because the older delegates were upstairs and the Young delegates were raises the ques Tion of Why the older delegates were riot there to be it raises further the question of whether or not they would have voted As Sauve thinks they would have voted to defeat the if they it the More important question on what grounds would they have Defeated the motion for it is Clear from the statements of the Federal ministers present that they tried to walk the Tightrope Between Canadian nationalism on the one hand and Quebec nationalism on the they do not oppose the idea of abolition of the monarchy they object to the raising of the proposal at this moment in Canadian As a result there was a great Deal of Public hand washing by the Ottawa ministers Sauve said i am not opposed to the idea but i would do nothing to sell it to the if other people want to do that i dont in not involved in that immigration minister Jean Marchand said i cannot be opposed to the principle of the symbols Are a matter of Canada must have Canadian i do not want to have on other that is Why i abstained from Justice minister Trudeau shrugged off the Resolution with the Many things Are More urgent than but said that he did not object to people working for abolition if they thought the change Energy minister Jeanluc with abstained from the statements of these ministers can Only give weight authority to what otherwise would have been a Resolution backed for the most part by hotheaded Quebec they have put themselves on record As favor ing abolition of the or at least not being actively opposed to it they object Only to the timing of the it not so easy to write the Resolution off As simply the views of a relatively few Quebec these views will not get much support elsewhere in Canada except from a few ardent republicans who have the Blessing of the Toronto in Montreal it remained for prime minister Pearson to speak for Canada and for the great majority of when he warned that reshaping federalism does not mean that we should desert the old values or Rush to destroy institutions and traditions by so we merely stir up needless controversy that will delay or even prevent the far More important things that have to be not that the monarchy is Over the past Century it has proved itself in audit has proved itself As a Canadian institution created and upheld by canadians if a better system had shown undoubtedly this country would have adopted but it is a system that fits our our circumstances and our and seems Likely to continue to do it is to be hoped that the Montreal Resolution will now be allowed to recede into the background while other constitutional matters Are debated and Auguste my for one of the strongest support ers said that this was an expression of some thing that Quebec would like to if others Are strongly wont insist on it should be evident to Choquette and those who feel like that the vast majority of canadians Are most strongly bombs in Greenland in Montreal Republican Stew considerable fuss has been made Over the crash on Greenland of the United states bomber carrying Hydrogen it has even been suggested that the crash May have influenced the danish general election last in which the pacifist Radical liberals increased their representation in the 179 seat parliament from 15 to 28 the Radical liberals de Mand a referendum on Den Marks continued membership in nato and Denmark May thus join no socialist government of Norway in its lukewarm attitude toward the which today is As exposed to the soviet threat As it was to the nazi menace in the seems unable to learn from a year before Hitler launched his War of Denmark disbanded All her armed the gesture was made to avoid All provocation of the nazi most the Danes alone could not have prevailed against the on Slaught of the nazi War but it was because of scandinavian pacifism and neutrality that Hitler was Able to pick his scandinavian Vic Tims one by of the countries have been exposed to a relentless pressure from the soviet Union to sever their ties with the Atlantic Moscow has been trying to convince the danish and norwegian governments that it is in their interest to assume the same neutralise posture that Cost them their Independence and tens of thousands of lives a generation economic pressure is being exerted by both Denmark and and incidents such As that of the b52 bomber Are exploited to the full to scare the Danes into abandoning their links with the yet if it were not for the regular Arctic flights of the b 52 flights maintained Day and night year after it is less than probable that Denmark could have remained a thriving on the soviet unions with a Homegrown communist and a fellow travelling left Wing socialist she might have found if not on the Road to a Peoples at least in the position of where no government can be formed without soviet a there is a Price to be paid and four bombs deep in the sea Are a very Small Price the with the rest of the Western should be grateful to the american airmen who maintain so constant and dangerous a Ottawa there could scarcely be a More unhelpful contribution to the february constitutional con Ference than the Republican Resolution passed at weekend by the Quebec Federal the delegates who cheered Trudeau in Montreal seem to have paid no attention whatsoever t o his recent warning about Munich Type opened his words were this is giving in order that you will have to give in More later and this certainly int our approach to the if the conference is to reach a consensus the prime minis Ter and Trudeau will have to secure the cooperation not merely of Quebec but also of the other predominantly English the Quebec Federal liberals virtually at the invitation of Marchand now gone far beyond anything that was understood to be on the Agenda and have voted in favor of a Radical change in our itis difficult to believe that who has already talked of borrowing from the congressional will be less nationalist than the what then is the position of the other premiers will they be agreeable to Reform pro otherwise if they have reason to believe that they Are expected to surrender on the instalment plan to Quebec demands Choquette of explained that the Resolution is not a in that Why was it considered important enough to press to a vote Over the opposition of Sauve and Drury it is certainly consid ering its to ensure Johnson a free Trudeau degree of interest in the Resolution appears from his subsequent dry remark if asked to help sell the he would prefer to go this is entirely in character because he has been distinguished As a minister by a in emotional what is to be gained of what problem is to be by a Resolution which risks Divi Sion both of the Liberal party and of the country there would be a problem if the w h o represents the Crown of can was in a position to obstruct the popular but it is 42 years since any was raised ing the Powers of the Queens one would in these that the system was working As smoothly As anyone could by Maurice Western the advocates of republicanism at the Montreal conference ignored the Strong historical that their proposal could create far More serious problems than it would what Republic has managed half As Well according to the ranking Republican in the House of the Reso Lution represents the Best Way to fight the so far As the Quebec separatists Are this is plausible enough they Seldom miss an Opportunity mock at our present but for Many people in the rest of Canada these ins Titu which we have devel oped Over so Many Are associated with the distinctive Quality of this if we Are to be Republican in any will we remain aloof from the United states simply because of our affection for bilingualism and Bicu Tural ism or will we decide that the question is simply one of economics do we wish to be citizens of a High Cost or a Low Cost Republic who perhaps unintentionally helped to Cre ate a mood favourable to the spoke of economic and psychological servitude which prevent us from developing a unifying National it is curious that Over the past 100 years our including French Canadian have been proclaiming our emancipation from Servi tubes at rather regular inter the Resolution is in itself an interesting commentary on our alleged plight since it quite that we Are free to make any change we it seems not to occur to the advocates of Republican institutions that republics have their the Montreal delegates decided against the Paul von Hindenburg Type of chosen by direct this was certainly prudent a president so re turned would have a mandate would not Likely remain a figurehead and would prob ably find himself sooner or Ater in opposition to the the approved by the Montreal great care has been taken to ensure that the head of state Ifould be a person Well Reno fed f r by partisan politics arid generally acceptable the Canadian the Montreal Resolution would ensure a political indeed the Man who emerged from the infighting and Eye gouging to claim his Reward at Rideau Hall might in some circumstances be an opponent of whatever govern ment was in Power because the Senate has on occasion been almost a on party Stab there is in any Case no certainty that the Montreal pattern would if we Are to take the Republican we May find that Quebec would prefer a Hin we know now that Johnson harbours some Republican ideas at variance with those of the Liberal thus he would prefer Freedom to choose his Cabinet ministers from outside the legislature which is not too surprising considering the paucity of the Talent on which he has had to with this responsible govern ment the theme of so much of our history would become simply a fading Mem it is an indication of the change in the conservative party that the opposition did not take the course on Mon Day which almost certainly would have been followed in Diefenbaker there were no probing questions from any party about the Montreal Resolution simply an ominous but this does not mean that the under Stan Fields have become republicans there Are differences in the conservative Camp but they relate primarily to some wanted to Challenge the government immediately others Felt that to do so would give the Resolution an exaggerated importance and some argued that it would appear As an attempt to raise Avarial Issue almost on the eve of the constitutional the consensus seems to have been that the opposition would lose nothing by Stan Field concentrated on Korea leaving the government to not very in Montreal Republican but there Are reasons to doubt that this restraint will last very Long some members already report a Strong re action from their constituencies and one new Democrat commented in the face of the Montreal he could probably dispense with a nomination meeting in the next Wilsons chestnuts by Macrae London How far has tiie morale of Britain labor government been irreparably damaged by the events of the last weeks Harld Wilson himself still so loves the Job of prime minister that he is resilient As a rubber in private he May be Cut the heart by Reading everywhere that no body will Trust his word again but in his office he sets to mending fences in order to beat the tories at the next 1970 or 1971 election after the Man on whom he relies for the economic Miracle of Rescue is the new Chancel Lor of the Roy in the hot Jenkins is hugely enjoy ing for the first time in his life he has a Job to match his considerable moreover j Enkins genuinely believes that Britain has now shaken off its two main sources of Lon term economic weakness its former overvalued Exchange and its former commitment to an Over extended world military in the Short Jenkins recognizes that he has big problems but he is determined to meet these coolly and some advisers had told him that he should act quickly against the current consumer spending Jenkins believes that part of the reason for the spree is that people Are drawing on savings in order to buy pred evaluation stocks of goods before their Price goes and this Means that spending might actually turn Down later in the year As savings have to be replenished he wants to wait until his budget on March 19 before making his final decision on How much of the Public spending Power to Roy Jenkins is surrounded by a plaque of very Clever who May Well eventually incite Kim to move against Wilscam whom Jenkins has most of his life privately but at present Jenkins would claim and truthfully that he and Wilson Are fighting shoulder to shoulder in Complete the cuts in government spending that eventually went through the Cabinet were precisely those that Jen Kins had originally suggested to and that Wilson agreed to support lots of people in the Cabinet but bowed Down to the new Wilson Jenkins Axis in the the ministers concerned with overseas affairs especially foreign Secretary George Brown and defence next to the prime ister Britain new Chancellor of the exchequer is the most pow Erful Man in the Cabinet and the Man on whom Harold Wilson is relying Foi an economic Secretary Denis Healey Are bitterly Hurt that the defence cuts made them break their promises to the United the sheikh Doms of the persian Gulf and but they have decided to stay of in the lest advocates of still further scuttle have even More of their own reports suggest that sex Chancellor Jim Callaghan May be the chief focus of anti Wilson sentiment the Cabinet just Cal lag Hans sem Public stance is that he made a mess of handling the and some sympathizers say that he is now a statesman whose career is probably past its but in his heart Callaghan believes that he was prevented at the exchequer from doing desirable things because Wilson told him that they were politically forbidden now Wilson Rolls up to his col leagues and says that Jenkins must be allowed to do All these with half an implication that it was Callaghan previous mis management that has made them All there is a Small pro Callaghan rightly feeling that he has been shabbily among the More elderly or aged and Middle of the Road members of the Wilson among backbench labor the Young and progressive intake of 1964 and 1966 sees Roy Jenkin As its great White the left Wing hates what is to but still prefers Wilson to the great mass Middle of the party Falls Back on exclaiming publicly that everybody is being wickedly unkind in saying such cruel things about Harold Wil sorts and on recognizing privately that any r6cwngof the boat now if it helped to precipitate a general election could lose at least two thirds of labor maps then their aim is therefore to fight Side by Side even if periodically saying Nasty things to each other until 1971 by then there is always the possibility that Roy Jen Kins will have pulled All those chestnuts out of the today scripture consider How great things he hath done for i Samuel de Gaulle and French Canada Pris Prince the great French Diplo mat of the Early 19th once said is excess Doest general de Gaulle himself cited this phrase in but As he enters the Winter of his de Gaulle is an old Man in a especially regarding French in his most recent Jean Raymond tour the Gaull Logist Par of fifths that the general is convinced that in a few years time the French canadians will attain Independence and that the world will say de Gaulle was the gaullist governments Canadian policy is an important part of French foreign this was a president was emphasized in the presi directly chosen by a two dents new year in Birds vote of the Senate and which the Francais do Cana Louse of Ever since the office of governor general was Cana end of a series Winnipeg concertgoers will note with regret that gees celebrity concert a part of the Winnipeg scene since it was founded by gees father in has ceased to for four decades the series brought to Winnipeg outstand ing artists in the musical including such famous names As Paul Lily Helen Artur Rubin Marian Ric hard William War Field and Jose for years celebrity con certs was the Only Organiza Tion providing regular musical fare for Winnipeg concert goers As Well As for the musically minded in cities and towns across Western state subsidized symphony orchestras and arts which have gone into the Talent importing Field formerly dominated by Independent impress Rios like have made it impractical for organizations like celebrity concerts to carry and the Field has been the regular celebrity series will be but it is to hear that the organization will still reactive in the concert promotion sponsoring occasional attractions As Well As the popular world adventure Tours Over the years the gee family has provided a valuable service to the Winnipeg mus ical Community their contribution will not be soon warmly and by the presence in the capital these past few weeks of a group of and mini sters from the Quebec and Ottawa what exactly does this policy consist and How far is de Gaulle prepared to go these questions were answered in Large part the other Day by a gaullist spokesman at the Elysee in a 90minute interview with this in answer to a question on plans for 1968 and the spokesman said that France will continue to develop closer and closer relations with he refused to be drawn out when asked if de Gaulle really believed Independence was inevitable for he stressed that de Gaulle had never referred to an Independent but to a Sovereign master of its according to the gaullist in by Leo in a 90minute interview at the Elysee it was Learned that French Canada is really viewed As a Pawn on the gaullist diplomatic dependence is an extreme form of will closer relations mean that France will encourage emigration to Quebec of her skilled workers and Grey matter the spokesman said that More and More teachers would be but this will have its in not Only does France need her brains and skilled the government is trying to increase population growth As much As Frances wooing of French Canada Falls within the framework new order the general is seeking to install in a world dominated by the soviet and american with the big two cancelling Eracli other out because of their military and nuclear the smaller nations and races must seize the Opportunity to affirm and defend their respective per the Elysee official went on to say that de Gaulle was one of the most notable representatives of a humanist philosophy in which National values form the Backbone of human the nationalism of the 19th Century to which de Gaulle is often linked a bad whereas Gaul list nationalism is a healthier based on resisting Hege monies and preserving National identities and by Way of justifying the generals intervention in can Adas the spokesman said things could have vegetated Why didst de Gaulle act sooner visa is French Canada this can be explained to a Large degree by the fact that the government was preoccupied by internal and colonial affairs during the first half of the fifth re at the same As Long As France was a colonial Power and part of the integrated nato defence de Gaulle Felt she did not a free diplomatic hand to adopt an Independent in at the Cabinet meeting late last de Gaulle explained How during his summer trip he had been tremendously impressed by the crystallization of the French Canadian though most French Citi Zens were outraged at the generals Vive be Quebec Libre in majority probably support his efforts commendable in themselves to preserve French culture in North a recent poll appeared to indicate that the generals theses were gaining ground in but one suspects that Many of these though naturally interested in their cousins a m e r i q u have not seriously studied Canadian problems and Are secretly delighted to see de Gaulle upset the Anglo Saxon Apple there the Ever highly developed sense of the French National which to some observers is reflected in a policy based on weakness rat her than during the interview with the Elysee this correspondent was in formed that Frances in fluence in the world would be increased by a Strong French Community in thus i was told in so Many words that French Canada was viewed As a Pawn on the gaullist diplomatic chess what is also striking in the View of informed Canadian circles Here is that gaullist intellectuals readily apply to a North american situation a political vocabulary that is intrinsically european and very largely influenced by Frances colonial experiences in the French government persists in bypassing Ottawa and the Canadian embassy in Paris to pursue its dialogue with French this All too assumes a political in this the visit of the acadians was described by the gaullist As above All the paper said that the main object of the visit was to introduce the French speaking canadians living outside Quebec into Frances policy towards French Canada As a i understand there will be similar move towards the French canadians of in its coverage of the this same paper did not once mention the fact that Louis Premier of new has been one of the most outspoken critics of de this is typical of the biased and of gaullist overtures to French birthdays Alex fort Garry born january Sarah Boniface born january ;