Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 24, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday july 24, 1968 Welsh want to Aid England by breakaway communists plan thai Strateff a by Alan Harvey London special Welsh sentimentalist abroad Are to be wooed in a Dollar drive on behalf of celtic nationalism. Gwynfor Evans the Only nationalist to represent Wales in the British Parli Ament said in an interview recently he will visit Canada and the United states next year to line up expatriate financial and moral support for the Welsh cause at Westminster. Buoyed by by election euphoria. Or. Evans predicted that Scotland and Wales will wrest separate parliaments from England within a few years. In a sensational result last week his party s candidate shaved nearly votes off the labor party major Ity in Caerphilly and served notice that the celtic fringe must be taken seriously. We think Wales can be made a very Good place to live said or. Evans president since 1945 of the nationalist plaid Cymru. It is important that it should be More widely known in Canada. I plan to visit Toronto Montreal and Windsor As Well As Amer ican cities. I would like to get out to Vancouver but it May be a bit too from Cardiff the party s longtime Secretary j. E. Jones predicted a big in crease this year in Cash support for plaid Cymru pronounced Pla eed Kum ree the names Means party for he said the party has about a dozen Active supporters in Canada led by travelling librarian John Williams now at Mcgill University. Or. Wil Liams is described As one of three leading members of an expatriate group called Wales International. Big Booster possibly the biggest Booster for Wales is Hywel Hughes a cattle rancher in South a r i e a whose House in the Welsh county of Anglesey flies the Welsh red dragon. Or. Jones said or. Hughes has Given several thousand dollars to the party Over the years. For his part or. Hughes said he met several Rich welshmen last year at a Welsh musical festival in Toronto. They were eager to support Welsh nationalism he said. Plaid Cymru plans to fight All 36 Welsh constituents at the next election in a bid to break labor s political stranglehold on the valleys. Political commentators in London have been slow to to the upsurge of w e 1 s h and scottish nationalism traditionally Pooh poohed As a fleeting phenomenon but some Independent minded m e m Bers at Westminster take it very seriously indeed. Unless interest evaporates suddenly it could change the whole Structure of British politics. And a Good thing says or. Evans by no Means an advocate of tooth and Nail nationalism. It will even be a Good thing for England. It will hasten the Day when she comes to with her real Situa Tion and accepts her Raal role in the world instead of being tempted to play the great Power. Why would this be a Good England would Stop living beyond her Means. There would be no More balance of payment problem. She could concen trate on improving the Quality of life rather than in bleeding herself in overseas commitments. It is part of the great unwinding that is taking place All Over the world. I Don t believe in All these Power blocs. Look at the catalans and basques in Spain the bretons in Brit Tany. The move towards decentralization is part of a global shuns plaid Cymru eschews violence. It sees itself As a moderate nationalist party seeking self government but favouring a customs Union rather than economic separatism. Asked if this 1 idea was borrowed from Quebec Leader Rene Levesque or. Evans said there might be a parallel there but he preferred to Lay stress on the Way the statute of Westminster conferred a status on Canada that he described As a prototype for Wales. We accept the Queen and we want to remain within the As the Welsh nationalists talked exult Antly of escaping from England s embrace a member of Parli Ament at Westminster criticized the Way tropical immigrants were changing the character of these islands. The British nation is being washed said Ronald Bell conservative member for South bucking Hamshire. He c 1 a i m a d coloured immigrants were reaching Britain at the rate of a year while the natives left in twice those numbers. The surge of Welsh and scottish nationalism has been attributed to growing unemployment and decline of traditional industries that sparked the Industrial Revo Lution. These Are undoubtedly Strong contributing factors but the principal psychological catalyst some observers feel is simply Britain s ebbing influence. As Long As John Bull s writ ran round the world Scot land and Wales were con tent to put up with being Junior partners in a Union of 52 million Only 9 million of whom lived outside eng land. Copyright 1968 the Globe and mail by Dennis Bloodworth Bangkok special owns As Saigon braces itself for the Shock of the next Viet Cong onslaught the communist executors of a Thailand next strategy Are directing terrorism in this country from a secret Headquarters possibly in the area of Dien Bien Phu. Intelligence indicates that a control group which is believed to include chinese and vietnamese cadres is sending instructions through neighbouring Laos to key agents of the communist party of Thailand in bang Kok itself. These Are financed by. Local left Wing chinese and Are responsible for maintaining Contact with the different zones of insurrection throughout Thailand. The first modern soviet designed a.k.47 automatic rifles have been captured by thai Security perts argue that this suggests the existence of secret caches of up to Date russian or chinese arms smuggled into the country for a More violent future. Hitherto the guerrilla movement has fought Only with the Wea Pons of the second world War in order to i preserve its image among villagers As a spontaneous uprising of Down trodden thais not an armed conspiracy supplied and directed from abroad. For the same reason the guerrillas operating in the impoverished Northeast of the. Country where the Mekong River Mark the indefensible f r on r with Laos Are drawn from thai villages not. From among the Community of disaffected vietnamese refugees in the. But while More than 500 thai cadres have been instructed in subversion and terrorism in a special school at Hoa Binh i m North Vietnam and later filtered Down again into the Maquis i learn that recruits from the vietnamese minority have also been pulled out for training and then slipped Back into their own villages in Thailand. Their role has not been to fight a hit and run War in the teak studded scrubland of the Northeast however for they would discredit a movement advertised As thai and at present it is Only to indoctrinate and develop the vietnamese Vil Lages As centres of support food funds and information for the armed thai insurgents. On the Southwest Border with Malaysia at the other end of the country where guerrillas ambushed a pol ice Convoy two weeks ago and mowed Down More than 30 men the hard Core of some 600 Malayan insurgents who. Withdrew across the Frontier into Thailand eight years ago is also gradually giving Way to a new generation of recruits who Are thai nationals. Startled malaysian and thai Security officials Are petted to agree that troops of both countries must be allowed to Hunt their elusive common enemy on both sides of the Border in future thin but spreading the pattern of armed struggle is now part of the political climate not Only in the Northeast and on the malay Sian Frontier but also in the North and on the Border with Burma taking their line from radio peking and the unto rated voice of the people of the gunmen of the thai patriotic front i number Between and arid ate. Actively sup ported by up to sympathizers it is lated Here but they work in about 90 separate Small squads most of them Only 10 or 15 Strong. X coordinating the counter insurgency _ operations o f troops police and civilian specialists Northeast alone the communist suppression operations command and army chiefs in Bangkok have tried to isolate the terrorists from the villages leaving them in the Bush and Jungle where local military strike forces can Hunt them Down. Accordingly it has put Lighty armed teams of Volunteer defence corps and police into the villages with radio Contact to a Central combined Headquarters set up in each 10 sensitive to a r t. Areas notorious f or v terrorism. The system Wourn t work in a thai general told me frankly this week. We just Hope that it is going to be different the Hope is based on the fact that Thailand is not sex colonial territory eager to Welcome a co m m in i movement in the Guise of a., movement. For National but an inde pendent kingdom in which the people Are Foyal to their Monarch and their Buddhist Faith. The 10 million people in the Northeast have not suffered from imperialist but from neg Lect. And nature. Much of the year half of their villages Are marooned by floods and inaccessible while in the dry season the mean soil crumbles to dust and the land is afflicted with drought. Rising thai d o c Tor s technicians or agronomists declined to waste their time and talents on this unrewarding Outback and it has failed to inspire provincial administrators with much interest in its welfare in the past. When the be Gan one Village chief went three times to the the presence of a a wrists and was assassinated for his before any move was. Made against them. Isolated and seemingly abandoned most villagers connived with Tike communists not for love of subversion but of survival. Making Little More than a year in their Remote Rural others joined the guerrillas in the nope of a better life Only to find that the communists had no ideological answer to floods and drought. The first task of the thai government backed by about million a year in american military and eco nomic Aid has been to show that Jit extents. Wien Vil lagers report their needs and fears it All do officials emphasize. This has yielded its own crop of follies from supplying Barefoot peasants with Sharp shouldered West Ern Spades to bombing Meo villages on the basis of local reports that they harboured communist infiltrators the bombing added several Hundred angry and rebel Lious Hill tribesmen to the original Force of about 150 Meo terrorists trained by the laotian leftists across the Northern Border. Nevertheless the current minute 20 minute Rice meat balls combination of Faith and works of protecting the villager to give him Confidence and providing him with roads and Wells Dud drugs and schools has at least paid off in statistics. Last year the guerrillas were assassinating local officials and Village headmen i at the rate of 10 a month and making armed propaganda forays into villages two or three times a week. So far this year their killing average has dropped to a Little Over four a month and their propaganda incursions to fewer than one a week. The mood is uneasy however. The americans have men Here but their military Effort is directed towards the bombing of n o r t h namese and Viet Cong tar gets. While this suits the thais who prefer the struggle for Thailand to be fought out in Vietnam it arouses fears that if a settlement is reached Over Saigon the americans May see no Point in staying in this country. 1 can 10 of condensed Cream of Tomato soup cup water ibs. Minced beef 1 cup minute Rice 1 Tablespoon grated onion 1 Teaspoon Salt dash of Pepper mix soup and water. Set aside. Combine minute right from the Box with remaining ingredients add Cut soup mixture and mix Well. Shape in to 18 balls. Place meat balls in frying pan add remaining soup mixture. Bring to a boil and simmer 15 minutes Basting occasionally. Makes 6 Servings. Note no pre cooking. You probably have All the ingredients in your Kitchen right now. Spend less time in the Kuchen More time in the Here Are two minute Rice recipes that Cut Kitchen time to a minimum. 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