Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 18, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published daily except sunday by Winnipeg fret press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. John Sifton president r. S. Malone publisher and editor in chief Peter Mclintock Maurice Western executive editor editor Winnipeg free press Winnipeg monday March. 18, 1968 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights attack on America a three pronged attack is being carried out against the United states a communist escalation of the War in Vietnam the militant preparation for a new hot summer that will begin in Washington with a negro demonstration during the first week in april and the concerted attack upon the american Dollar. The three Are interconnected and their goal is to eliminate american world influence. There is no overvalued Stock Market As there was in 1929 there is no big economic crisis looming on the horizon. What there is is a crisis of Confidence All around in the american determination to up hold the Western world. It is symptomatic that buying of Gold reached panic pro portions immediately after the new Hampshire primaries and the declaration of senator Robert Kennedy that he too will help to split the democratic party. The Prospect seemed obvious at least to the speculators and their helpers in Paris and Moscow. Two or three years ago Anthony Eden in a Small Book on Vietnam foresaw the need for America to stay in the Region for another ten to 15 years. But the american Public seems tired of their country s world role and Congress does not want to face the financial consequences now that the soviet Union and China have vastly escalated the War by pouring highly sophisticated weapons into North Vietnam. For instance much has been written about the alleged reluctance of the South vietnamese troops to fight. However . Marines alone have been equipped with the m16 Rifle and they prefer to use the chinese equivalent captured from the North vietnamese which the marines say is far More effective. The South vietnamese have been equipped with no such weapons because weapons Cost Money the message from new Hampshire and Capitol Hill is not so much peace As a return to isolationism Retreat into fortress America. Once the americans were Back Home nothing would induce them to venture Forth again and the world would be Safe for rampaging totalitarian regimes. In Southeast Asia the soviet Union and China would dispute the Region by mutually escalating wars of and shutting out All Western influence. The Prospect would b grim for Japan India and Ausalia and new zealand. I would be even Grimmer for Israel and the Middle East. In Africa the present growing guerrilla movements nourished by China and the soviet Union would undoubtedly increase and it would not be Long before Europe faced another Berlin crisis. With such an Outlook it is Only natural tha speculators run for Gold. This run is encouraged by those who wish to remove United states political influence which is closely linked with a Strong Dollar. The most recent and enthusiastic apologist for gaullist foreign policy Philippe de Saint Robert in his Book be Jeu de la France Paris writes for a country like France the Only positive policy consists of humbling the White House just As to save the world and ourselves from another Empire with global pre tensions we once had to Humble the House of Austria if however Paris and Moscow should succeed in their attack the fact that Eastern european Central Banks have played an important role in the Gold Rush shows that the affair is As much political As Pecori omit they would drag Europe into ruin. America can divorce herself from Gold and remain a prosperous closed inside her own fastness probably surrounded by High Tariff Walls. Her International Trade accounts for Only a fraction of her Gross National product and she can Well do without it. But with America isolated world Trade would collapse and the rest of the world would go broke with unforeseeable political consequences. Moreover the american Domestic unrest threatens to provoke an Over reaction and the civil disorders commis Sion was not exaggerating when it warned that it could Lead to the ultimate destruction of America s Basic democratic values. A frustrated and betrayed America at Bay would become an angry giant and the prospects for a durable peace would grow dimmer. This is the reason Why the economic attack which however involved financially has a fundamentally political basis be contained. The american system of government is not sufficiently flexible to Deal with sudden crises. An obstinate powerful Congress Man can defy the administration and the world. This is one More reason Why president Johnson must receive All the backing possible from his allies. The speculators and America s foes must not be allowed to pull the roof Down Over our world in which they too live. Still the Stern daughter the Wisest Canadian of my acquaintance puts the current political phenomenon in a nutshell. If Trudeau becomes prime he says then this in t the country we have always taken it for. It s a different my Friend did t mean that or. Trudeau was unfit for the highest office. Indeed he was inclined to the opposite View. He merely meant that the Canada of our National legend and stereotype would never choose a Man of or. Trudeau s habits ship. And Brief apprentice by Bruce Hutchison Canada has changed but How much and in what direction we May know better after the liberals pick our next Prim e minister. Is there any place where we can look Forward to a Short Cool summer this seems to me incontestable. But surely or. Trudeau s overnight Rise is not the first or Only evidence of a deep change in the nation s Outlook. One can think of others. We had always assumed for example and foreigners had taken it for granted that Canada might be dreadfully Dull but it was the most stable i nation on Earth. Until recently a Canadian travelling in the United states was almost embarrassed to hear Ameri cans lamenting their own instability and envying the sound plodding government of their Northern neighbors. Yet the fact of record is that in 11 years and five elections we have elected a workable majority government Only once _ in 1958. A people famous for their cold sub Arctic judgment and steady common sense could not make up their minds on the first order of business in party politics at least we can see now that the stereotype was broken in 1957, with John Diefenbaker s arrival an event As extraordinary As the emergence of or. Trudeau and the pieces still Haven t Een put together. Or again take the manage Lent of the National Economy Ere we were Long Dis anguished in the War and postwar years by our Thrifty housekeeping. Canada was the age of cold five years ago president 1 John f. Kennedy warned that the free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems Are not to take control of much More recently William Mcchesney Martin jr., chairman of the Board of governors of the . Federal Reserve sys tem said i have been quoted As saying that Gold is. A bar Barous Metal. But it is not Gold that is barbarous what is barbarous when it occurs is Man s enslavement to Gold for monetary in the past few weeks it has looked As if or. Kennedy s fears were coming True. And or. Martin s Point has certainly been most painfully made. Why a situation like that which has developed is pos sible in today s world o powerful governments Anc highly sophisticated monetary is a the systems Layman Workings finance Are Puzzle to the techniques International far beyond of As or. Luebke in trouble the past of the West German president Heinrich Luebke is giving Rise to a heated controversy and this in turn is damaging West Ger Many s democratic image. The president was accused first by East Germany and later by the popular West German Magazine Stern of having helped to build War time concentration Camps. The president who has never been a very popular figure in Germany denied this but refused to sue those who were propagating such allegations. His excuse was a historical precedent under the Weimar Republic the social d cratic president Friedrich Ebert was the target of callous and systematic calumnies. He brought 30 actions against the right Wing a 11 a c k e r s but with the Weimar judiciary largely opposed to the Republican sys Tern he had a very limited Success. President Luebke pointed t this precedent in his recen nationwide television address and now the West German judiciary is up in arms. The times and in particular the attitude of judges Towan democracy have changed said the federation of Germa judges. They added that if the president does not Trust the courts to obtain Justice wha Hope is there for the average citizen Stern which has de voted 14 pages of its last Issue to a new attack on the president maintains that it is not so much the communist allegations about the presi ent s past that Are in ques on. The president s office Lould be above suspicion and be ugly dispute has debased office and subjected the entire nation to ridicule. The attacks Are directed As Luch at the coalition govern ment in Bonn which advised he president on the course of action As at the president himself. The president s term vill expire shortly and it has been argued that or. Luebke those health is not of the Best could resign earlier and Hus end the controversy. Such unfortunate problems Are bound to beset West Ermany for Many years until those who were of most of us As is the Art o piloting a Jet Airliner. When we Are in one and run into a storm unexpectedly or something goes wrong with the aircraft the Only sensible thing we can do is fasten of seat belts sit tight and hop that the people up front we know something about operal ing the machine will bring u All through safely. So finance minister Sharp advised the right thing to d at present is to act Normall and not As it were run u and Down the Cabin aisle in panic. Basically the present situation appears to Stem from two very human failings fear and greed. People we Gold Gold Gold Bright and yellow hard and cold. 0 Thomas speculators on the for things grown Man Market have been or made in Canada of its stability. A difference might b balance of payments in those items in the . Has been into the country when far More in foreign Canadian Dollar would no than it has been taking As much As it had before torn them has also led to the Price of Gol Eeling of insecurity. Added help South Africa an Lese strains has v been soviet Union Gol constant outflow of Gold whom the . I the diminishing its particularly anxious t serves. It would also Hel As a result of heavy which now has larg of Gold by speculators reserves drawn from the . Government is and whose run on pressure to raise the Price was1 certainly a contrib Jold from an ounce. It Factor to the prefer argued that a substantial in Price would bring Gold chiefly it is argued tru again to . Reserves As Rise in the Price of go speculators sold their not solve the Bas at a profit. A Rise in Price which is How to also argued strongly by Money available factors of Gold mines. Trade. In the a old prices would mean years or so imports Amor profits and some have grown Abri which cannot now be times As fast As mom profitably would be Able to because these a nto pegged on Gold. Go but . Authorities also being used More f opposed for a number purposes and to More Gold is being Boug one is that raising the hoarded thus taken out of Gold would be the same the Supply of be lowering the value of for reserves is Almo american Dollar. This and what the tra Hurt All countries nations have been seek ii Canada which hold a monetary unit based n dollars in their currency Gold that countries can u serves. The value of International Trade. Reserves would a conference of t if the . Devalued monetary fun Western nations would Rio de Janeiro la forced to devalue also. They came up w might be Little noticed unit of paper Gold Call the country itself a for special draw making a week this consists of a ii Canada would still make to accept the n and would pay the and to pay a converti still a i currency in return each sir will be equal to the Gold value of . And it will also earn a modest rate of interest. It is hoped that the Mem Bers of the if will have ratified this agreement by Lati 1969. If they do Gold will no be displaced As a basis o monetary dealing. Even today about Gold half comprises Only of the world1 monetary Exchange reserves mainly foreign Dollar and pounds and reserves the if make up the othe half if Saks Are accepted and created the process Awa from dependence on Gold i be continued and perhaps there May never be a repeat Tion of the present situation i which speculators plus Gol can throw the monetary so stems of half the world int near chaos. Better climate might Gamble on the future but we could afford to take no chances. And yet we have far outstripped the americans and the British our original mentors in social experiments of All sorts while borrowing massively from our neighbors to build the second highest living Standard in the world. These were bold and hopeful ventures generally approved by the electorate but they did t fit the legend. Nor did our latest Effort to our wealth still faster by raising our prices since our productivity has not risen in proportion. Here too a personality change is vividly marked. Our grandfathers who made the stereotype in the first place had few machines of production but they built the car across the continent sometimes a mile a Day and that was productivity on a stupendous scale though one had heard the word in probably the Only Western action that taxed itself to pay of a Large part of the artime debt and soon its currency became More Valu ble than the american. Starting in 1957, under the conservatives we began to in which the liberals denounced As ruinous Walter Gordon warning us hat we would soon be on the when he took Over our finances the deficits continued o pile up and the rocks turned out to be nothing More Nan a harmless Mirage. And when or. Gordon was succeeded by Mitchell Sharp hat grim portrait and living Symbol of Canadian frugality the deficits were increased for Wise keynesian reasons until the autumn of 1967, the those Days before the new economics was invented. The common Assumption has been that we retain All the Virtues of our grandfathers with some new ones added and perhaps we do. Clearly however there has been a deeper change in our nature than we suspected. Otherwise As my Friend says we would not be considering a prime minister like mrs Trudeau who is supposedly the new Canada incarnate As or. Winters is the old. N rocks again suddenly close appeared at hand undeniably solid rocks this time and terrifying to the nation s treasurer. We need not go Over All this painful history but it shows that in financial affairs Canada has not behaved As natives or foreigners expected. In a recent Book foreigner Dean Acheson called Canada the. Stern daughter of the voice of i wonder if he still thinks that his quotation from words Worth applies any the Stern daughter1 has been out on the town painting it red according to the stereotype Canada s harsh experience in the wilderness has made it a naturally conservative even under Liberal administration. Other coun tries with More people and of course these Are. Extreme and Over simplified versions of a Complex process which no one understands very Well neither Man being much 1 i a e his Public caricature and the cliches of television. Never the contest is interesting far outside the Ordinary concerns of politics because they do represent within the Broad bosom of a single party a clash of Basic attitudes a rough litmus test of a Canada unquestionably changed but How much and in what directions by rejecting both men the Liberal convention will avoid any answer. By choosing one or the other it will give us a. Useful measurement of ourselves. Today s scripture Jesus said if any Man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me. Luke 9 23. Or. Shulman s next Book have been Rushing to ex-1 the years Wilen the various children and Young people mature age during the Hitler period have left Public life. At Ilie moment disputes of this sind bring democracy into disrepute and Only extremist parties can Benefit from it. This indeed was the lesson of Weimar and it is a lesson Well Worth pondering. Change their paper currency for Gold in countries where this is permitted Are motivated either by the fear that in future their paper Money May be Worth less than it is now or by the greedy Hope that the Price of Gold will go up and they will be Able to sell their Gold hoardings at a profit. They can do this because the Western world operates its monetary systems on the sold Standard and the United _. I _ remembered words from the Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne though one were Strong As seven he too with death shall dwell Halls used for the Manitoba come to take part in it. Music festival were crowded i if Young people continue to with parents and other on a learn that it is Good and lookers for almost every j pleasant to make music the session Aie Long past. For a festival will be worthwhile number of years now festival. Even if the Halls Are empty officials have been the men s music club of. Ing about a Lack of. Support j Winnipeg which has Spon from the general Public and i sorted the festival since 1919, especially from parents. This should not think that their efforts Are in vain. They continue to enrich the lives of year the situation was no worse than last year but last year Ever been. Poronto never let it be 1 said that failure will spoil Morty Shulman. True the Good doctor millionaire Speculator Best Selling author Art collector one time chief Coroner of metropolitan Toronto and now a new democratic member of the Ontario legislature was Down _ and some thought out _ when Justice w. D. Parker presented his report recently on his inquiry into or. Shulman s charges that coroners inquests and investigations have been suppressed in this province. The report did not support the charges in fact it said or. Shulman did t have a leg to stand on. But he was not Down for Long. Within half an hour of receiving the Parker report he was on his feet in the legislature on a Point of order demanding to know when there would be an Opportunity to debate this slanderous untrue and shameful Docu this produced nothing except a Stern reprimand from the speaker for Unwar Larnen tary language and he retired to the lobbies where cameras whirring and reporters scrib bling he lambasted judge Parker As a government apologist and his report As conservative and conservative by Harold crier anyone can make a a better title might be anyone can be a because As the evidence at he inquiry showed and As Edge Parker concluded or. Thulman has a free Wheeling concept of the Coroner s Funer Tion arid some ideas on the a and due process which Are unique to say the least. Judge Parker said his technique smacks of which May be somewhat i Lent Junji. I it was As bad As it has the Young and. The musical life of the City. They Are doing great work. They must riot be states is the King pin. It j it apparently does no Good dismayed by empty Halls. Provides the basis against which All currency values Are figured. It does this by holding the Price of Gold on which its currency is based at an ounce an arbitrary figure that has remained or been kept stable since 1934. Under this system every Dollar held by any country s Central banking system As part of its reserves is a potential claim against . Gold. The country can take its dollars and demand Gold for them As France began to nor Wake with wings in do with embarrassing Reuhs heaven nor weep for pains in hell though one were As roses his Beauty Clouds and closes and Well though love reposes in the end it is not Well. For the ., some years ago in transacting business among themselves most coun tries use Gold or the american Dollar or the two Reserve currencies. But since the Pound was devalued to remind parents that it is a Good thing to take in what their children doing few seem to pay any attention. The festival organi Zers have in the past begged pleaded and cajoled with Little Success. It must be apparent by now that must have Little interest festival. Many do come but their numbers Are far out of. Proportion to the number children involved in various competitions. The i act that the Halls Are nearly empty is in no Way an indication that the festival after 50 years has ceased be a Success. The festival is greater Success than Ever and will continue to be successful As Long As Large numbers of Economy ouija Board instead of a something More specific was obviously needed and or Shulman clearly a Man with an inexhaustible Supply o Energy and Midnight Oil a now supplied it with a 65-pag report on the which claims to answer judg Parker Point by Point. Actually it does nothing of the Sor and simply rehashes the eve Dence at the inquiry from or Shulman s Point of View by that is neither Here nor there it appears to be an answer which is All that can t reported in a 30-second new clip anyway and All that d Shulman needs to stay i business As the Scourge of the tory establishment and fender of the underdog. It should also do Autho Shulman no harm at All. On reason Why he was Able to g his reply out so quickly r confessed to reporters w that it was really an Alread the controversial on Tario sex Coroner or. Mor ton is not the kind of a Man to take the report of an inquiry on himself lying Down. One outline of a new Book hich his publishers have Een screaming for on his experiences with the Parker inquiry. He plans to Call it the Royal commission and e Hopes it will do As Well As i of illegal conduct is to try to i rewrite the dictionary. Or. Shulman made no such attempt when he was on the witness stand before judge Parker and the following Exchange took place q. Are there cases in metropolitan Toronto during the period of time in which you were the chief Coroner of metropolitan Toronto a. Yes sir. Q. In which there has been an unlawful or improper suppression of an investigation or inquest a. Yes sir. Subsequently in the closing commented in his considerable Tjhie and would Nave been unfair but certainly in the world of Morton Shulman words and statements tend to become highly ephemeral. When for example asked him whether his report on the report meant he was repeating his charges that the government Las unlawfully or improper a suppressed inquests or. Shulman immediately p r o tested that he had never used the term unlawfully at All. He said this was a term Premier Robarts had supplied the had Parker merely in establishing inquiry and he gone along with his word he said had been this is quintessential shul Man. All of the statements which led to his dismissal As chief Coroner and the creation of the Parker inquiry Are Replete with such expressions As Whitewash and cover since they were concerned with coroners inquests and investigations and since they were directed at his superiors in the attorney general s department and the government generally to deny argument at the end of the inquiry or. Shulman a lawyer said he would not Deal with the word or. Shulman had made no such allegations. Had or. Shulman made this admission at the Start of the judge Parker report Money saved the for several month s arid Cost a Oneal important Cavil How Ever can be entered against the Parker report. Despite the Patent misconceptions or. Shulman had of his Job As and his Many quarrels with his superiors Over the Coroner s function judge Parker has nothing to say on the role and the office or whether the current statutory Law is adequate. This was not specifically part of his terms of reference but the government clearly intended that con Sider it. When the question was raised in the legislature at the time the inquiry was set up Premier Robarts said he had discussed it with judge Parker and the Point would be covered because it was absolutely Basic to the prob Lem to have it looked into. In fact judge Parker did not look into it at All. Instead he merely set out the Law As it stands and concluded in Case after Case that or. Shulman s ideas on the purpose of an inquest did not Accord with the Law. Why or. Shulman was allowed to operate for four years As a Coroner is a question judge Parker does t that they carry the implication i even raise let alone answer ;