Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, June 10, 1968

Issue date: Monday, June 10, 1968
Pages available: 46
Previous edition: Saturday, June 8, 1968

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 10, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Poll favors pm to debate sad by Victor Mackie Ottawa special Politi Cal observers Here feel the liberals and the new demo cratic party will Benefit the most from the great to debate described by most political observers Here the morning after As a colossal prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau successfully offset the swinger image that has dogged his footsteps wherever he has gone in the Campaign. T. C. Douglas new demo cratic party Leader emerged As the Star of the show. He seized the Opportunity to pre sent his arguments for the Little Man on the National to platform which the liberals had insisted that he be allowed to share. With Canada s june 25 elec Tion Only 15 Days away the two hour National debate that was no debate was a sad take off on the famous four Kennedy Nixon debates in the United states in 1960. The format in the Cana Dian parody of the United states confrontation proved to be Al wrong in that it did not permit any debate to take place. It was like a glorified press conference without the newsmen afforded the Opportunity to probe deeper with follow i questions. The reporters asked a question and each of the four leaders made his reply. Leaders could not engage in a debate on the subject raised by the question. It made for dul television with no verbal Sparks and Only two or three mute flashes of Humour. Voters who Are determined t vote against the Liberal govern ment in the election May As result of the program vote of the nip instead of the conservatives because or. Dougla made a better presentation tha or. Stanfield in the program according to a poll taken alte the program. The poll was conducted by television station Cjohn in the Ottawa Valley. It covered j 14 constituencies including three French Canadian constituencies located on the Ontario Side of the Ottawa River and three Quebec constituencies on the Quebec Side. A total of 240 persons were polled immediately after the program. The result Trudeau came off Best in the opinion of 34 per cent Robert Stanfield won the support of Only eight per cent of the Sample of viewers or. Douglas won 17 per cent and real Caouette National Leader of the social credit rally got no votes. Forty one per cent were undecided. Or. Trudeau who is at Home on television and has mastered the medium appeared uncomfortable during the pro Gram much to the Surprise parliamentary political observers who have been watching him closely now during the past three months. He is usually very much at East on to but in the sunday to confrontation he was not his usual relaxed animated self. Liberals however took cons lation from the fact that rather than coming off with his "swinger1 image enhanced or Trudeau appeared to the Vas viewing Public estimated a around canadians As a sober sided dignified gentle Man. He was Calm almost too Calm because on to when a question arouses him or. Tru Deaus face usually lights up and Many expressions Fli question arouses him or. Tru Deaus face usually lights up arid Many expressions Fli across his countenance. Or. Trudeau switched easily from French to English in answering questions in Shar contrast to or. Douglas and or Stanfield. But the simultaneous translation when or. Todea was speaking in French let much to be desired it a agreed Here. The translator speaking in English was bar to follow and unable to keep u with or. Trudeau. Come brackets he exploited lose opportunities to their Ullest at the expense of or. Trudeau and or. Stanfield. He also seemed the most relaxed and at Home in the cramped confines of the format. Or. Caouette spoke in French. He aimed his answers at his Awn area and gave replies calculated to win the support of canadians in his Section of Quebec. Or. Trudeau Man aged to throw a few verbal body blows among them being punches at or. Stanfield and tar. Douglas for having French Canadian lieutenants who spoke differently in Quebec than the National leaders of the two parties were speaking outside of Trench Canada. Or. Stanfield managed to get on the record that he was being falsely accused of having agreed to construct a Tunnel from Newfoundland to the Mainland whereas All he had said was he would launch feasibility studies. French issues clarified or. Stanfield appeared Muc As had been expected. H handled the questions capable but on one or two occasion hemmed and hawed and appeared at a loss for words., or. Douglas was the typical Douglas the expert politician who for years has been an swering the kind of Standar Dull questions that were put t him by the panel of thre newsmen. He seized the glorious Opportunity presented to him come out for All the policies that he knows have to greatest Appeal to the to from Reuters a Paris the 13-Day French election Campaign opened officially today with pockets of workers still holding out after a general strike which led to the dissolution of the National Assembly. Both the gaullist and the left St opposition claim the Central sue at stake is Clear Cut. For president de Gaulle and s party the election scheduled r june 23 and 30, will decide Hether France will be lost to totalitarian the communists and their ales Francois Mitterrand s fed of the left want the vote end 10 years of Gau Eist Rule and return a government Capa a of introducing reforms for hich French workers ent on strike last month. The three week strike forced e Gaulle to dissolve the nation 1 Assembly May 30. Observers believe de Gaulle s interpretation of the strike As n attempt by communists to Stablish a dictatorship could care Middle class voters into turning a greatly increased gaullist majority. The last general elections in March 1967, returned the Gaul its to Power with a razor bin majority of one in the Assembly. By May 30 this was reduced to minus four. But apart from demanding a Jigger share for workers in the nation s Prosperity the strike a vast protest movement by millions of frenchmen against government policies. This could upset the _ aul lists calculation that they stand to gain in the voting. Former Premier Georges Bidault who. Returned from six years in exile sunday after opposing de Gaulle s algerian poll lies denounced the vote As election of confrontation be tween communists and the government and said he would not run. In a statement he urged elec tors to vote for non gaullist candidates. But observers believed is re turn to he said proved the Days of prisons and exile Are now Pla Cate right wingers and expatriates from Algeria into voting for the government. They believed this was Why Bidault was allowed to return to. France and predicted further gestures of appeasement. Amnesties or pardons for French rebels on Algeria could be expected they said. Jacques Soustelle another anti gaullist still in exile charged in a communique is sued in Switzerland that de Gaulle by brandishing the totalitarian menace is trying to Divide the country into two blocs separated by a chasm of incomprehension and More than candidates Are contesting the 487 Assembly seats. V major parties running in the election Are the gaullist with 197 seats in the dissolved Assembly to select chairman Winnipeg free press monday june 10, 1963 Schick stainless steel Blades 5 pack and 1 Bonus Blade pay Only comp. Value .75 Sec Back of package for derails of the exciting Schick Viking adventure contest. Mfg. 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