Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 27, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published daily except sunday by Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. John. Sifton r. 5. Malone publisher and editor in chief Peter Mclintock executive editor Maurice Western Ottawa editor Winnipeg free press Winnipeg thursday june 27, 1968 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights in search of detente this meeting at Reykjavik was conducted in a minor key. Two foreign ministers Canada and did not attend both of identical reasons Domestic elections. The presence of Dea United states Secretary , was meant t emphasize the Gravity of the Berlin situation. However Thi particular bomb seems to have been defused by the join efforts of Willi Brandt the German foreign minister an the soviet ambassador to East Berlin or. Abrasimow. Detente was in the air in the icelandic capital and Al kinds of schemes were floating around to be offered to the soviet Union for consideration. However each such schem creates its own problems. One is that so far nato a been the Only successful peace keeping Force in the Post a world. The second is that every suggestion at thinning 6u foreign forces in Germany harbours the danger of leaving West German and East German forces eyeball to eyeball the entire concept of nato was based on the integration o West German forces into larger Allied units to prevent an possibility of Germany acting militarily on her own. To question is now How to Square this particular Circle. Indeed the soviet Union must entertain very Simila doubts. The East German forces Are Large and we equipped. They can be satisfactorily controlled Only As Long As the soviet Union maintains troops on East German soil another question Mark is soviet willingness to come to an at this particular time. The russians hav never ceased to Hope that. Nato would disintegrate without affecting the cohesion of the Warsaw pact and they a have now reached the stage when they believe their Owr propaganda. Ernst Henri whose real name is Semyon Rostovsky writing in a recent Issue of the Litera Turnay gazeta predicted that upon the imminent disintegration of the Atlantic Alliance West Germany will conclude an Alii Ance with peking. He has even alleged that West German scientists Are already helping China to build her nuclear Arsenal. One Hopes that nobody takes Ernst Henri very seriously. In 1938 he forecast that a Force of armed German workers was about to topple Hitler and install a communist regime in Germany. At that time almost every British newspaper took or. Henri at his word times have changed but the fact that his space in the authoritative Moscow Litera Turnay gazeta does Noi leave room for too Many illusions. On the other hand it cannot be denied that there is a shift in american global attentions whatever the put come of the Paris peace conference there is a corresponding restriction in european global involvement and there is a change in character of the International Challenge. As prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski the noted american political scientist remarked recently the Gap Between american global involvement and the essentially regional perspectives of eur Ope can now hardly be bridged. However something should be done to work out a joint Atlantic response to the growing threat to International stability arising out of sporadic violence and global anarchy. The present groupings by nato May Well be in the right direction. However a premature dismantling of the Alliance which could easily be triggered off by Canada withdrawing her troops without reaping any financial could precipitate developments in Europe that might affect the delicate balance upon which peace is based. Next parliament Canada s 28th parliament will not Bear much resemblance to the 27th. True the liberals will still govern but they will govern with a substantial majority and under a new Leader. Across the Way the opposition ranks have been depleted. There too a new Leader will sit at the head of the conservatives and by the time parliament meets in september it May be that the nip will have appointed a successor to t. C. Douglas. It is encouraging that for the first time in six years Canada has a majority government. It is regrettable that regionally speaking there Are gaps in both the Liberal and conservative parties. The liberals were almost held out of the Atlantic provinces the conservatives did miserably in Quebec. While representation in both parties otherwise is fairly broadly based the Lack of members from one Region makes a party than it might be. One of the prime minister s first jobs and one which he apparently has already turned his hand is his Cabinet in order or better build himself a new one. The Cabinet with which he went to the country was accepted largely on the understanding that it was a makeshift Job and that the real construction work would come after the election. Or. Trudeau is fortunate in that he has a wealth almost an embarrassment of Good men from which to draw. And even if regionalism should raise its head he is More fortunate than his predecessor in that he has members from All parts of the country. Or. Stanfield on the other hand faces a depressing task. Experienced conservative stalwarts Davie Fulton Alvin Hamilton Richard Bell among them were Defeated so were Many of the men on whom he counted for an infusion of new including Marcel Faribault Dalton Camp and Duff Roblin. To put together an effective conservative Shadow Cabinet will tax All of or. Stanfield s ingenuity. Or. Roblin s defeat was to Many people unexpected although he entered the Campaign carrying around his neck the Albatross of nine years As head of the provincial government in Manitoba years which saw advances in Many Fields but which also saw unpopular tax increases. While e. B. Osier deserves All credit and congratulations for his Victory in his first foray into the Federal Field there can be few Manitoban of any political Stripe who do not today have a feeling of sympathy for or. Roblin in his setback. They will wish him Success in the future in whatever area he May involve himself. A sidelight of the election was the roles played directly and indirectly by four provincial premiers or sex premiers. Or. Roblin sex Premier. Of Manitoba was Defeated. Or. Starrfield sex Premier of Nova Scotia was elected but his party was badly beaten. Newfoundland s Liberal Premier was apparently responsible for the Liberal debacle in that province where they dropped every seat but one. Saskatchewan Liberal Premier Ross Thatcher was responsible because of his imposition of deterrent his province s medicare and hospitalization programs for an upsurge of nip rather than Liberal strength there. But while sidelights and personalities Are of interest it is the Broad Over All picture that counts. The Broad picture today is that the country will have a majority Liberal government in the next parliament led by a prime minister who is not afraid of change but who does not believe in change merely for its own Sake. It is doubtful if any of or. Trudeau s predecessors had the Opportunity that lies before him today. It is an Opportunity that if grasped can Lead to truly great things. Vow a ban on burning you mean i m faced with a crisis the minute i get Back from not by economics alone Washington when on june 21 the Senate took the final action required at last to enact the income tax increase so Long demanded by the Johnson administration the occasion warranted a world sigh of Relief the increase actually a ten per cent surcharge on the present income tax runs until june 30, 1969, and should produce about billion in additional Revenue during that time. It was unpleasant in an election year for the Senate to approve the increase As it was unpleasant the Day before for the House of representatives to pass the Long Battle in the lower chamber. As a quid pro quo for enacting the tax measure the House forced the administration to reduce proposed government spending by billion during the next fiscal year. The total Impact of the new legislation on the government s books will be about billion from the controversial tax and cutback a e a sures and about billion when other less controversial Revenue measures Are included. Sizable As this sum appears it is a drop in the vast . Fiscal bucket not even enough to eliminate the next or. Trudeau Plahs for action Ottawa Long before tuesday s Battle was Over the party leaders were discussing plans for to Morrow this being the nature of politics and the. Prescribe a ritual of the television establishment of the four or. Trudeau alone was in a position to be reasonably specific. He was he Victor and he was assured of an Overall majority More Han sufficient to enable the government to move confidently ahead with its Legisla Ive program. At a late press conference he said among things that he would re shape the ministry to give it a More National character that expected to Convene Parlia ment in the second week of september and that he fore a an important Agenda of forms including changes in he antiquated procedures of he House of commons. It is perhaps somewhat unusual for a prime minister o go beyond generalities on Lection night. Or. Trudeau of course in character be relishes action he Las explained in the movies. Lis comments Are Neverth e Ess revealing because they eem to indicate an awareness not Only of the strength of his position but also of the angers he will have to face in parliament and the country ver the next few years. His strength is apparent. He s plainly the master of his in Liberal House to which be came Only three years ago s a virtual stranger. There Lave been few comparable our politics. As ate As. The Ottawa convention which named him to the leadership he was obviously regarded with misgivings by Nany. Liberals who considered aim both an Amateur and an known Quantity in Public if e. Now that. He has shown himself a better judge of the National mood than Many Veteran colleagues and professionals his prestige is very High. While the liberals might ave won under another eader it was. Probably or. Rudeau s magnetism which them their majority. In these circumstances the rime minister is Likely to counter 1 to 11 e opposition within the party to his plans or the new session. He i faces ome s and May Rouse some antagonisms in modelling his. Cabinet for like or. Pearson he now enjoys an embarrassment of iches. There Are Likely to be More claimants for off ice than Lere Are places. Room has to e found for Prairie ministers it the Only vacancy is or. Billets to a degree the difficulty has been increased y the appointment of Tern ovary ministers to the care Ake r Cabinet. They cannot easily be demoted. Perhaps Ith or. Sauve s defeat Rural development might go to a Westerner. What is to be done or. Kierans on. But these Are the problems f a fortunate Leader the respect is for a much stronger government. While ome liberals May be disappointed in their rimmed ate ambitions the party will certainly be disposed to Trust he judgment of a prime minister who has won such a convincing Victory. By Maurice Western prime minister Trudean unlike those of Heads of political parties they Are problems of a fortunate Leader. The real Challenge Over the longer term derives from or. Trudeau s own Success in the country. No one. Can say How much of his support was generated by programs and issues How much by the excitement he created.1 his own imagery about the just society and his appeals for wider participation in politics created in Man minds a rather vague feeling thai the country was on a watershed Between old ways arid a Trudeau. Era promised to be new and different. Pro Grams can be issues met. But How is the government to satisfy Hopes and aspirations never defined and yet quite evidently cent ring on the person of or. Trudeau it. Was at least partly because he was tunable to translate the visions i. 1958 into realistic and satisfying policies that or. Diefenbaker failed. Or. Trudeau s problem is not he has made so few commitments that he enjoys at the quite remarkable Freedom nevertheless he has aroused Large expectations and manifestly intends to meet them As Best he can by bold Reform Rhea sures at his first session. His. Adversaries Are themselves rather some of assuring prematurely that within six months the honeymoon will be Over. Perhaps but it May be Worth recalling Lin Roosevelt whose Charisma enchanted a so maintained his momentum that his second National Vic tory far exceeded his first. The test facing the conservatives is of a different the High expectations of last fall they Are tasting. The bitter realities of june 1968, the election has not Nerel exposed it has in some siyilays1 the unheated rifts in the party there May How be a tendency As often in the past to make or. Stanfield the. But the country requires an effective opposition and it is not Likely to the conservatives relays e into civil War. Despite his defeat and in contrast to some of his predecessors or. Stanfield came put of the election a Well liked Man. He made some rather obvious mistakes but he did so in an evidently sincere attempt to read the mind of his party As it was revealed or obscured by the Toronto convention with or without or. The conservatives must establish some base in Quebec if. They Lope to present themselves in future As a credible alternative to the liberals. Against the Brilliant and untested or. Trudeau or. Stanfield was bound to appear rather halting and. Pedestrian on the Public plat forms. But this need not be a fatal disadvantage or. King for nearly three or. Stanfield Las described himself As a patient Man and As a. Politician of experience he ought not to Lack opportunities to score new government in parliament. If there is disappointment with or. Trudeau the country May be the More disposed to revise its his. Rival., his comments on election night or. Stanfield is. Evidently prepared to wait and has no intention. Of. Abandon ing his Post. Whether his party has Learned enough from to accept this situation the unanswered question it. Will of Bably go unanswered., f or sometime while fee. Conservatives tend their and. Conduct their elect Mph postmortem. Of the Small party leaders Only or with his position enhanced. Since the. Departure of or. The personal defeat of or. Douglas May hasten the Al ready expected change of leadership by the nip. His loss will be Felt particularly in parliament where he showed to better advantage As a tactician1 than he Ever did As a strategist in the country. By an ironic twist mr., Douglas lost. His own seat in his adopted province Columbia while of his British party after1 repeated frustrations was re establishing an old base in his native province of Saskatchewan. Whether this can be consolidated is a considerable question except in. British Columbia the nip in recent years has shown a notable., ability to exploit local opportunities example in but it. Has been far less successful in holding ground. Whoever succeeds or. Douglas if he now decides to retire will have to wrestle with the party s own Peculiar problem of regional Dipari by Richard Purser balancing and warding in the . By Domestic Tionel issues regard could devastating any monetary the budget off inflation complicated and internal whose Dis have a More effect than Federal deficit. But it should reduce is considerably significantly enough it is hoped to give the world s financial interests t i e psychological sign they have been awaiting from the . Following the wave of Fin. Ancial crises during the last several months affecting the world s leading Reserve currencies and so threatening the International monetary sys tem attention has centred on the. Soundness of the Dollar the chief medium of Exchange. The Dollar s soundness has been deeply endangered by deficit spending and . Domestic inflation and by . Balance of International pay ments difficulties. During or. Johnson s two year Battle to wring anti inflation taxes from Congress the latter s willingness to act in the National interest and possibly against its own inter est in re election came to be taken by the International financial Community As the Symbol of the United states ability to discipline itself. Had the House failed to come across in its showdown vote there is every likelihood that an immediate major International crisis would have been precipitated. Economists freely spoke of economic and or. William Mcchesney Martin jr., chair Man of the Federal Reserve Board at one Point almost tearfully warned that con Gress had the . At the Edge of an economic abyss. Warnings of such dire Grav Ity suggest that there is More danger in the economic Situa Tion than can be averted by the bit of budgetary legerdemain that has just been enacted. And such is generally believed in be the Case. Immediate catastrophe in the form of an International run on the Dollar an unloading of currency in favor of seemingly More stable solid goods but Lias been averted inflation will not be eliminated by the new Mea sures. It will Only be reduced. And even that depends on All Gregoire he has been despite impressive of unchallenged wizard of especially in Quebec the monetary theorists in has no representation immediate future he is six of the ten provinces. 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