Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday june 20, 1968 the last Hurrah for chief was t it Only months ago that the chief had opened a conservative showdown game in Toronto with one nation Only to have Stan Field raise him one and Call him but for this night the people had picked their own Leader and by no Means in a pure political sense. And he was responding As Only John Diefenbaker could really respond venting acid tenderness bombast and nostalgia into a captivating blend of rhetoric that held the crowd transfixed for a full hour and 10 minutes As he first roasted prime minister Trudeau and new democratic party Leader Douglas and then carved them into even slices. His right hand was even making chopping motions As he said Trudeau says he believes in a just society yes just do nothing. What did he do when he took government he took a Bunch of ministers who had made a mess of one portfolio and gave them two. The contents of the Liberal bottle Are the same As their Label both then he whipped out a pamphlet written by or. Trudeau five years ago in which or. Trudeau had called the Liberal party All Lousy was he sincere then is he sincere but even the raucous applause which greeted every quip was edged with remorse because everyone in the Hall knew that this was the chief s last Hurrah. And the shame of it was that he had Ben left in limbo Many suggest quite in voluntarily at a time when his party needed the Diefenbaker invective the most. And at a time when the conservatives were desperately trying to retain the West with the incongruous continued double play policy Combina Tion of Stanfield to Camp to Faribault. They needed the acid Diefenbaker put Downs such As the one he threw this night at Tommy Doug Las in describing his pouter Pigeon strutting since the great to debate. Parodying the song show me the Way to go die aped i had a Little debate 10 Days ago and it s gone right to my his eyes flashed As he spoke of the nip s Peren Nial threat of making the big breakthrough at election time. They make a break through Okay. Like you do when you jump on thin later when he mentioned the name Trudeau again one Lone member of the crowd applauded lustily. Die wheeled and impaled him on the end of a that is about the proportion of support tru Deau Many in the crowd must have wondered if the tru Deau Savity and flair would have gone so untarnished in this Campaign had the Spry 72-year-old footsteps of John Diefenbaker been dogging his tracks across Canada past few weeks. As one conservative put it. The difference Between the Way Stanfield and die would have handled tru Deau is that Bob challenges him by asking if he s sorry where die would have just gone right out and made Trudeau damned. it was after a Good 45 minutes into his speech and he looked much older now the perspiration Bead ing on his forehead and glistening under the hot to lights. But one sensed he was afraid to let go afraid to sit Down for that last time because there open Days a nights on Sale at the factory Quality Comfort terms room group value factory to you Means big savings furnished Complete Only a month any room can by bought separately Complete bedroom with free mattress Spring factory to you Complete Dinette factory to you 23" console . With 3 pm. Group. Reg. I t7 Complete living room free Bonus gifts table lamps 20 piece Bedspread boudoir lamps dish set Pillow cases toss pillows or Blanket Coffee table 24 piece pillows end tables cutlery set sheets Hurt Lett pay nothing August unto smiles free Lay away till needed 618 Arlington near Sargent pm. 775-4426 were so Many things to and no More campaigns to say them in. He groped through his Cluster of notes and suddenly his eyebrows arched and he jabbed a Finger in. The air and shouted let s get Back to the nip that Bunch that Are against High taxes. Remember when the liberals voted in that 11 per cent construction material tax the nip talked against it. But when it came. To the vote they abstained. And guess what the nip wants to do now abolish that same construction then he wheeled on the liberals. They think they can win a race by putting a new steering wheel on an old second hand he was equally hard on his own party swigging or. Stanfield for not clarifying his stand on one nation earlier and jabbing at Dai ton Camp when he was asked if the conservative Hierarchy had invited him to Campaign outside his own constituency. I m just a the chief said. And i just wish or. Camp would real ize that he is also just a candidate and does not speak for the conservative All too soon it was time to say goodbye although the throng had scarcely stirred through an hour and 10 minutes Savouring too the last droplets of Vintage Diefenbaker wine. It was indeed that old time religion As the tears began Welling in the chief s eyes. And his voice quivered and broke As he told them this is my last Campaign my last Parlia ment. His face was almost buried in the microphone now his voice reduced to an almost pathetic rasp As he clenched his fist and squeezed the life out of his last dramatic Salvo catch something of what it Means to be a and then he sat Down stiffened his shoulders and wept a Little As the thunderous last Hurrah echoed the end of an Era. Says pm creating disunity continued at a rally in Russell in the afternoon for Craig Stewart conservative candidate in mar Quette. At the East Kildonan meeting or. Diefenbaker said if or. Trudeau is will face the greatest increase in taxation in its history Canada at the moment has the highest rate of taxation and the highest interest rate in its history he said. Investment is declining also. The economic situation u too serious for on International affairs or. Diefenbaker said this in t the time for Canada to quit nato As or. Trudeau has suggested. Russia is gaining strength too fast for Canada to weaken her stand. Attacking the nip or. Diefenbaker said that party is just out to get votes. He pointed out that the nip now Speaks about abolishing the 11 per cent Federal sales tax but when it was introduced in the House they did t vote on the Issue. Or. Diefenbaker said political leaders must have principles and policies. In ending his speech by asking the audience to think something of what it Means to be a or. Diefenbaker s voice wavered and there were tears in his eyes. He said it was his final Campaign speech. Selkirk Plant approved continued. Nip rally attracts Here Industrial development Don t represent current expenditures paid for put of current taxes. According to the nip chief they a re capital programs continued Bailey Bridge possibility continued he said the chief problem but one metro s streets depart ment could overcome would be construction of approaches to the temporary Bridge. Coun. Willis said a Bailey Bridge has to be constructed at doubt River level but in the Maryland area of the Assirio Boine River there is a. Sharp drop from existing approaches to Maryland Bridge and the River. In other words the High Banks pose an approach prob. Lem. L. R. Bud Sherman progressive conservative candidate for Winnipeg South in tuesday s Federal election said thursday his election committee sent a Telegram to prime minister Trudeau wednesday evening asking that he authorize the ederal defence department to construct a Bailey Bridge across he Assiniboine next to Mary and Bridge. The Telegram said the Bridge would remain closed for at Leas free months and that its losing has created traffic Lazard congestion and Greal or. Sherman said the defence department could construct a 3ailey might Bridge cheaply and even be considered a worthy exercise for our military Gerda s getting married Munich West German y reiters Ercla Munsinger 38, whose Friendship with a for Mer defence minister caused a political crisis in Canada two years when she was accused of being a possible communist spy said thursday she will be married in Munich Early next month. Her future husband is Munich tobacco merchant Ernst wag Ner 58, to whom she was engaged at the time but who broke it off in the aftermath of the scandal. In 1966, the then Canadian Justice minister Lucien cardio claimed former defence minis Ter Pierre Sevigny had an affair with miss Munsinger who car Din said was a suspected espionage agent. Sevigny denied that the relationship was More than Friendship. Today both she and Wagner refused to discuss the scandal that s All in the granted amnesty Lusaka Zambia a about exiled members of the banned Lumpa sect have been granted amnesty and May Cross the Border from the Congo. The Lumpas led by Alice Lenshina a self styled Prophet were banned for nearly four years after fighting against the government. Which will be self liquidating both to government and to the lending institutions making Cap ital available. For instance the billion in Canadian pension and Trust funds could be made available for housing mortgages or mobilized through a Canada develop me it corporation to expand existing Industry and Start new or. Douglas that vast amounts of Money could be made available by eliminating wasteful duplication of serv ices and by establishing a Federal budget Bureau to con stantly review and. Audit gov eminent there Are areas where immediate and substantial saving of tax Money can be made he continued by eliminating a number of outdated programs. V he singled out nor and and nato As examples. We spending under the present government some million in the next five years to support Norad an which has been described As obsolete by the former . Secretary of defence Robert our nato and other defence expenditures on obsolete equip ment and systems provide fur ther areas of immense Sav he contended. We see the present government spending several Hundred million dollars a year to keep nato brigades in Europe when the danger there has now been reduced to practically Zero and when that Money could be put to far greater use in of oven More importance he argued Are immediate Steps to manage the country s work Force More efficiently in order to reap real savings. Quoting from the last report of the economic Council of Canada or. Douglas said the country should maintain a level of employment of at least 97 per cent of the Active labor Force. He said every one per cent drop in the level of employment costs Canada billion in lost production and in turn million in lost tax revenues. If we put the Idle resources of Canada and the Idle hands in this country to work we will create an extra billion of production for every one per cent we lower unemployment Levels in this country. Even if we measure up Only to the standards of full employ ment set out by the economic Council Canada s wealth production each and every year would be raised by Well Over billion and our tax revenues by Well Over he used the Point to hit out at the prime minister s charge that the nip platform would the country Well Over a billion dollars. If the country s unemployment level were reduced by 1.5 per cent then the billion or Trudeau is worrying about could be brought in in one year. He repeated his Call for implementation of the Carter commission taxation proposals and received the loudest cheer of the night when he added a Lew wrinkle to or. Trudeau s now famous just society phrase. There can never be a just society unless you have a just a he shouted. In his View the liberals and he conservatives Are refusing of endorse the Carter proposals because they fear that the main Osers under the reforms will be he freeloaders who Supply most of the funds for both the old line parties. Earlier or. Douglas told 500 people at rally in Dauphin 1 that Only an nip government can take action1 to protect the average person against the pocket picking of the profiteers .in-.Canada. Great monopolies of can Ada Are behind most of the increases that have sent the Cost soaring in recent years he said As he. Addressed a Church Hall meeting in the town. Neither the liberals nor the conservatives Are going to disagree with the big corporations that contributed funds for both parties in the current election Campaign. nip can protect the average Canadian because we owe. Nothing to the corporations. We Are free and stay in nato of the Oslo labor party has voted 125 to 48. A favor of Norway remaining in nato. Slugs outdated Toronto up people using ring tabs from Beer cans As slugs in parking meters cause a loss in Revenue of annually in Canada and the United states a Survey by the municipal parking Congress shows. Figures were released wednesday at a news Reuters British Diplomat Raymond Whitney whose departure from peking was delayed for a year by the chinese government arrived Here from peking wednesday. Whitney was beaten by red guards in May 1967. He was scheduled to have left the British Mission in peking a year ago but the chinese rejected requests for an exit visa. 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