Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 6, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday february 6, 1968 pick a any Carp. . Donald Duck where s the mail it always Early Oft Topaz is boy out to dinner i m cel esp inns i m a Dav Yolk nept s than i i i i was Mickey mouse of Fossot Minnie Archie jughead is to get rid of our mice for us when do we get rid of jughead did he set traps j of did he leave his cat v i Blondie Well you Ever set one i want to be sure the right picture is on it Why do you Wake me up at two in the to ask that Pas Wood whose picture is on tem Trio Lisand Dollar Bills Salmon r Chase. Rip Kirby relieve the guard at the i want All of you Aten on your toes tonight soundlessly moves go Monarch s Guf Trp. I and Lois a nun a Knucklehead and nothing you be drawn a Sirl a face and a Square but ditto teacher asked you to draw thins that started with Don t you n set it i j Tiffany Jones come straight round to you what s got into you Clowy out j just got Back and i be lots to Tell i m Gitig to fall into a Sath and catch up Ohl some sleep right new. And then. Tiffany that won t be. Convenient i m afraid i just happen to be otherwise Allt Beetle Bailey my says a bit fuzzy there s Mot much me can do about that now Volgograd Springs from ruins of 200-Day Stalingrad Battle by Peter buckle a Volgograd up atop mama Hill on a bitter win ter s Day the guns still seem to Thunder below. The wasteland created in 200 terrible Days and nights has Long since been cleared away. A new City has been created on the right Bank of the Volga. It Volgograd now. To the world it is Stalin Grad. V Here 25 years ago there was a Battle decisive in the history of War and Deci Sive in the second world War. After 200 Days and nights of bombardment and Battle in 1942-43 literally nothing was left of Stalingrad. Here the germans were beaten. Mama Hill alone remains As a Monument to the Battle of Stalingrad. Impressive statue an ascending series of Mas Sive heroic statues and Struc Tures Lead up to a Concrete statue 175 feet tall of a sword wielding motherland. The Low rounded Hill in the Centre of Volgograd is one of the focal Points today for celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the Day when the last Frozen starving remnants of. The German 6th army sur rendered to the encircling red army. Twenty five years ago hit Ler decreed three Days of National mourning in the third Reich for the surrender at Stalingrad. At the same time the soviet Union and its allies could believe at last that the tide of War had changed that Germany would be beaten. Many Battles have been de scribed by historians As a turning Point in the second world War. Stalingrad truly was one of them. Everyone knew it even at the time. Victory essential fearing defeat in the approaching struggle for the Volga River Joseph Stalin and his War Cabinet reorganized the red army. They boosted the officer corps with ornate new uniforms and medals. They pressed angrily at Churchie and Roosevelt to Start the second front in the West. And they issued their famous not a step Back order to the demoralized soviet troops. In the minds of both Hitler and Stalin the implications of a German Victory at Stalin Grad were Clear. Beyond the Volga Lay Only Flat agricultural Steppes with no natural defences until the caucasus mountains. Our soldiers said at the that there was no land for us beyond the one of the Stalingrad veterans told me. With Stalingrad gone mos cow would have lost communication with the food and Oil producing South. Pushed Back from the Volga the rus sians would have been in a desperate position Milita Rily economically and Politi Cally. Standing Oil mama Hill looking Down to the icy Volga and a c r o s s the Industrial heart of Volgograd not the great issues of the War that leap to mind but the ferocity and misery of a Battle. Could it have been so cold so Windy on mama then had they these same gales Strong enough to tear the breath Stalin wanted City to Rise from ashes Moscow up Winston Churchill suggested to Joseph Stalin that the ruins of Stalin Grad be preserved for All time As a kind of museum of human courage and suffer the suggestion came at the 1943 big three conference in Tehran a few months after the soviet Victory at Stalin Grad says russian inter Preter Valentin Berezhkov whose memoirs a p p e a re d Here recently. He quotes Churchill As say ing the ruins would be an object of pilgrimage from All ends of the Earth and would serve As a warning to coming Franklin a r o b. S e v a 11 thought it a Good idea Berezhkov wrote but after a tensely dramatic pause Stalin replied i do not to think the ruins of Stalingrad should1 be left As a museum. The City will be re built. We May beep some part of Block or a few build As a Monu m e n t commemorating the great patriotic War. But the City As a whole will Rise like from the ashes and that in itself will be a Monument to the Triumph of life Over Stalingrad Hiis been totally rebuilt and wan renamed Volgograd in 1961 As part of hush Sia s de Stalin Kation. Prom a pre War population of it now is a City of few actual traces of the Battle but there Are monuments to it everywhere. Dennis the menace if 1 really 0o drive xxi crazy will you still 86 Able to from the Throat was there this numbing cold the answer is on record Winter came Early and hard to the Volga country in 1942. Besides weeks of below Zero temperatures there was the almost ceaseless wind which buffets this City after sweep ing unimpeded across the Steppes. Never before from mid september until the end of january stiffened by tales of the brutality await ing prisoners either Side germans and russians fought tie weather and Eracli other in Stalingrad with fanaticism. Nothing of the kind had seen Gen. Alexander Rodi Matsev one of the Best known of the soviet commanders at Stalingrad told a reporter recently. The depth of our defence positions was often not More than 500 metres 550 Yards or even 100 the Volga River behind and no room for manoeuvring or re grouping. You would draw up plans to dislodge the germans to Morrow from the second floor 4qur Only Chance from a Reuters Paris up Premier Dan Iel Johnson of Quebec is quoted in an influential French daily newspaper As saying that French Quebec co operation of fers our Only Chance to survive As a French speaking Johnson is quoted in an inter View with Jean taint Urier of the Paris newspaper be Monde As saying Independent n o to the French speaking group 10 or 15 years from now will be anaemic if it does t join up with France and other Frenchi speaking countries. It is at the same time a motivation for our youth who could asic when they get to be discouraged Why not become they must be motivated in my opinion is not enough. Separatism is the Type of operation that once realized provokes More deception than enthusiasm.9 asked to comment Ion the controversial visit of president de Gaulle to Quebec last summer when he. Provoked the Federal government by issuing a cat generally associated with que. Bee separatism Johnson is quoted As saying it the visit contributed to our getting rid of this sort of defeatist Complex or Liat there was left of it. There was a fatalistic1, com plex among French canadians and the visit sort of revealed French Canada to it Quebec wanted Equality As a nation with English Canada. French canadians henceforth think As people who have right to self determination ant who Are going to demand its implementation under one form or another within federalism or out of it. The movement is irreversible and it is an illusion to be Lieve it can simply by proclaiming that French is an official language throughout asked whether he would re quest Independent authority for Quebec at the Ottawa constitutional talks Johnson is quote As saying Quebec accepts there should be a Federal government with certain reserved Powers. But we shall ask for the set Ting up of systems restoring Al residual Powers to the Provin Cial governments although we could agree that p r o v c e s which so desire May Delegate administrative authority to Ota a in certain Fields. It happened in Canada millions horses at work Canada s if Hoko elects is Power Worlo j second largest installed capacity Tirb Siant wat Toje produce four and Fields mines and Waters tyls is rat m4ktt us and us sir Charles Saunders following developments made m far Bascuas Moh Tabio Farmer. Which later produced red Fife meat Moshier Fattler William Funk a sir Charles Sleff Ediff Mottl hard rep Calcutta awk diked Marquis wheat harm to establish Lite Chad Tan As re great Waku a ounce wheat or the basement of this or that building or even from a single room of the another Gen. Vassily Chulkov has written that the two armies fought for every Brick and Stone for every metre of the Stalin Grad the gently rounded Hump of mama Hill a crucial Vantage Point for Battle and observation was a no mans land for months. Bombed shelled stormed and raked by fire it became so impregnated with Metal fragments that grass would not grow in the sum Mer Battle. And throughout the City in every building and Street and Park along the 15 Miles of that Stalingrad the Hor ror of mama Hill was repeated for More than four months. With enormous casualties at every stage the b a 11 proceeded through a series of now distinct Steps pressing their successful summer offensive the Ger mans crossed the Don River against Strong resistance and drove toward Stalingrad and the Volga barely Miles away. On aug. 23, 600 planes bombed the City killing some civilians an starting fires that could be seen 100 Kilometres 60 Miles a woman who survived the raid told me. Of by mid germans had reached the Volga on either Side of Stalin Grad and for the next two months drove the City s de fenders into smaller and smaller pockets on the Banks of the River. As few As soviet troops probably remained to defend their Strong holds supplied and reinforced fire from the opposite Bank by Small boats when the Volga was open or by men crawling across s. The treacherous ice with the German offensive reached its Peak at the end of october and came within an Ace of succeeding. But the russians were building up their armies outside the on nov. 17, concentrating some men and All the arms and aircraft that could be spared the red. Army a few Days Axis troops were trapped in.1 Stalingrad in what was to be come known As the cauldron. Crushing an attempt by German Relief forces to reach the cauldron the russians gradually tightened the trap. Gen. Friedrich von Paulus created a Field marshal in the last Days of Stalingrad a soviet ultimatum Jan. 10 and the final Battle began. On Jan. 31, with More than of his troops dead in Battle or of hunger and disease von Pau Lus surrendered Gen. Rodi Matsev who went from the Volga Battles to fur ther wartime distinctions wife asked recently what that bait tie meant to him now. His answer Stalingrad for me is my second homeland., i lived through it and which is the same As being born again. I saw things there that i had never seen before and have never seen since. There is nothing to compare it with did not agree Hellyer Ottawa staff can Ada has not agreed to Stop transferring employees at the maintenance and overhaul base to Montreal transport minister Paul Hellyer told the commons monday. The minister said he had held some discussions on this Point with air Canada officials. They had pointed out there is an agreement with the unions under which they Are operating in making such transfers. I think there will be negotiations Between the unions and the company and i Hope this situation can be resolved to the satisfaction of everyone in or. Hellyer told the i House. He was replying to j questions asked by David Orli Kow nip Winnipeg or. Hellyer met with representatives of the air Canada Winnipeg employees in his office Here last week he re assured them that the Federal government s commitment still stands that it will continue the overhaul base in Winnipeg until 1973 either under air Canada s operation or with another oper Ator. Or. Orlikov asked or. Hel Lyer what happens to the government policy which he i Winnipeg some time ago if transfers Are made but the Winnipeg member was unable to Complete his question. He was called to order by or. Speaker Lucien Lamoureux who ruled that or. Orlikov was asking for a statement of policy which was not in order at that time in the House procedural rules ;