Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 13, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october 1973 11 new governor general keeps Youthful spirit Canada next governor general is a skilled Diplomat involved in Many critical issues affecting Canadas sur Here is an intimate re port on the Man who came out of a quiet Quebec Village to become the Queens repro i by by Fox Brussels Cana Das next the quiet spoken Diplomat son of a frenc Canadian shop will have youth on his mind when he assumes his new office in Jules now ambassador to Belgium and Lux seems convinced that the governo generalship has a significant role to play As an office above politics and based on the monarchy As an institution or at least acquiesced by canadians at this stage of their Leger knows the Queen from past including those he had during a period of diplomatic service in Lon the frequency of her Cana Dian visits is enough to con Vince him of the importance she attaches to her position As Queen of but he is aware of belong ing to the pre quiet revolution generation in Quebec and thus of having an age Gap to Bridge in future efforts to or the loyalties of Young Leger has no illusions about the Young wanting to come to Rideau instead of trying to lure Youthful canadians with discotheque the governor general will Proba Bly try to reach them through such initiatives As the festival o f Young francophone from Canada and around the world planned for next year in it May be that meeting the Challenge of the Young will be a major theme of legers incumbency As the Queens representative in the future governor general has much experience in this particularly in the organization of the be Derall backed opportunities for youth program during his five years As undersecretary of these years preceded his arrival in Brussels last the ambassadorial Resi Dence in an elegant Quarter of Brussels is thickly adorned with proof despite his Silver flecked hair and elder state mans the go i s in the Walls of the modernistic residence Are lined with Many of them sufficiently abstract to raise Eye brows among other members of his but there Are More traditional including a landscape by j a c k s o n which seems to symbolise legers deep roots in the Quebec a reporter for be Droit of Ottawa in Leger has been ready to play Host to interviewing journalists in his with v former Gaby car Mel of joining in the yet it is characteristic of this native of the rustic que Bec Community Anicet that he does not consider pro found changes possible Over night in such Canadian attitudes As those concerning by he quickly has grasped the analogies Between Canada and linguistically divided Bel where Hopes for a Solu Tion to the language conflict Between francophone and the Putch speaking Flemings Are geared to decades rather than Mere the scholarly a doctorate from the univer sity of in his recent Ottawa service work on the bilingual from that can cite Belgium to support the thesis that building a nation out of two cultures is a sometimes arduous in the linguistic this attitude implies rather than expecting All canadians to be the aim should be for Riglis speak i n g and French speaking groups to lend a Friendly ear to each others Leger gives no sign of being a Pessimist in such instead he would probably Hope foe big gains in bilingualism Over the next 10 or 15 i his own Canadia ism met its most spectacular test Dur ing the four years he spent As Canadian ambassador to France when the late Charles de Gaulle was those have been termed the de Gaulle moment in Canadian a period of Tightrope trial of Ottawa Man i Paris after the Gener als famous 1967 cry of Vive be Quebec Libre in Leger does not claim to have been Dis courteously treated by de Gaulle in their personal relationships during the 196468 he would even recognize the controversial presidents stature As a great Man of vision and recall the Paris Days As intensely interesting for a professional but legers final verdict would Likely be that de Gaul Les vision clashed with film raises How even in Denmark by Joe Alex Morris Copenhagen special t p n s the whose worldwide Fame has skyrocketed from breakfast pastry to have plummeted into a controversy that is threat ening their reputation for n it is All Over a film that has not yet been made an irreverent idea of a danish anarchist suggest ing that Christ had an earthly love there is a suggestion of por but the More burning Issue is whether the proposed film is christians roman Catholic and protestant have raised a Hue and cry throughout Europe demanding that the film project be 35 in downtown is where Jens Joergen Thor the 41year old sometime film producer hangs out when Hes in whose fairly hardcore movie based on Henry Millers quiet Days in Clichy Gai fled some International now plans to make a movie about it will be called the Many faces of a title he switched to after the International protest wave started his first title was love life of Jesus he insists it is not a pornographic he it is True to the facts of and As far As he is Jesus had a love the real argument is whether the churches have the right to monopolize the image of gasoline bombs were set off at the danish embassy in there were bomb threats the Prince von Loewenstein of who will speak monday at a luncheon meeting of the Canadian club of Winnipeg h e has lectured at Canadian and universities and is Best known for his books and articles on Germany and West Ern Europe and the Impact of nato on these Tbs done rows is the ahead defensive driving course school starting Oatt adult 10 or 15 Grant Fork 11 or is Sar Jont Park 10 or 15 cordon 10 or 15 Edmund 1 11 or 15 Jahn motion Vincent Westwood Arthur Day Junior collegiate to enrol Call her 15 10 or 15 her 15 liar 15 10 or 15 11 or 15 i Manitoba safety Council 9425415 Oak of evening French government re fused to let Thorsen shoot the film in danish Young christians held a protest March in Copenh West German and dutch politicians have pro tested to danish author and thousands of pro test letters have poured into the government leaflets distributed i n Rome called Denmark the Pigsty of and petitions were gathered in danish churches asking the government to Stop the much of the onus has fallen on the danish government because Thor sen received a Crown subsidy from the film Institute for his the govern ment has pointed out that the film Institute is an in dependent organization Over which the political authorities have no control the foreign ministry Here Felt constrained to ask embassies All Over the world to broadcast the explant the problem Here is two Denmark has liberalized its anti obscenity Laws to the Point where anything goes with the exception of and this last restriction is Likely to fail by the Wayside next year when parliament considers a proposal to remove the second problem involves the danish film Industry which is quite Active for such a Small about 20 to 25 Fea Ture films a year Are produced Many of which would be stillborn except for the film Institute and its the Institute has about million which it can use to subsidize film pro and does so by providing Bank guarantees for part of the it has two one film the other a Jour who review the pro p o s a 1 s and submit approved ones to a fireman Board representing the in the Public and the ministry of in Thorsen his proposal was rejected by the first a former editor of a Maga Zine called Church and it then automatically went to the a film producer named Gert he okayed the project and the fireman Board then gave unanimous m whose own the missing won the Catholic prize at the Berlin film festival last says the uproar Over Thorsen film was created by mis much of it coming from Thorsen him he interprets the film As expressing a pro found Hope for it deals with religious feeling seeking a new out let in the modern Fredholm it is a desperate filled with the pornographic aspect is Only a Small the plot of Thorsen proposed film follows two time spans that of the Bible and the present the modern parallel is a Cambodia in seat contested United nations a China and 30 other communist r nonaligned countries dressed the general riday to take Cambodia in eat away from president Lon s phenom penh government and give it to the exiled gov rement of Prince Norodom a Resolution for the change Vas circulated along with the groups formal request that the 35nation Assembly debate it under the restoration of be lawful rights of the Royal government of National Union f Cambodia in the United a Sihanouk supporters expect e Assembly 25nation steer ing committee will recommend against the but they ave served notice they will get to have the Assembly overrule the rebel who wants to save the but in desperation turns to he ends up being cornered by police and shot to he originally planned to make the film in now that French authorities have he is looking for another the United states is High on his it has the right he sex but he wants to line up some american backers before he starts work in All his anarchistic in Thorsen sees no reason for moral scruples against his after he the churches also make Money out of an imitative Thorsen is Busy preparing his de Fence against a lawsuit brought against him by a private danish the charge the realities of Young Cana Das development and that of what particularly fascinated Leger during his Paris period was the sight of two men totally different in out Gaulle and the late prime minister Lester Pear plunged into conflict by the fickle forces of a Pioneer of the external affairs was a big influence on who first joined the depart ment in even More of an influence was the late Norman Robert one of Canadas most distinguished then there was the late Louis following a wartime period of teaching and diplomatic service in Leger became private Secretary to prime minister Laurent in 194950 and remained deeply attached to him right up to his death this but prevailing Over almost anyone else in legers reminiscences is his father whose Bookish habits and austere turn of mind played a crucial role in his Early the late Ernest Leger not Only kept a general store in a Community of 280 people some 10 Miles from the american Border but also served As choir director and postmaster Lor the Ernest Leger was the kind of Man to avoid effusive out bursts if he had seen the ultimate Success of Jules As Well As the ecclesiastical Ren own won by ambassadors elder Paul Emile Cardinal a striking portrait of the red Robed Cardinal by Quebec Painter Jeanpaul Lemieux dominates the Leger living room in Brussels and testifies to the firm links that still bind the two but in keeping with his Ernest when confronted with the Suc of his two would have displayed simply a a demonstrative possibly leaving More emotional expressions to his Alda the nother of the future governor general was actually born in the United states at a time when Borders didst mean much in North Ameri though both parents were Jules Leger rarely expressed himself in English before he was speaking French at at College in nearby Valleyfield and at the University of As Well As at the sorbonne in he still criticizes his com Mand of despite the fact that it is both fluent and he would reject the idea that in his Job As governor general will become a Mere ceremonial h i s Library prominently features the memoirs of Vin cent Massey and a biography of Georges both go Vernor general whom he knew and after an eventful career at the United nations and nato As Well As in Mexico and the other capitals where he Leger would consider the governo generalship a role through which Roland Michener and his other predecessors have been Able to express their diverse Public japans Anthem oldest Tokyo the oldest National Anthem is the Kim Gayo of whose words from the 9th Date carries big Load the Airliner in the which weighs pounds and can carry 490 world is the Boeing Why would anybody want to use vitamins minerals when the finest 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