Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday january 8, 1976 15 killing police horses destroys our image Montreal up a decision by Montreal Urban Community s Public Security Council to Cut costs by Cle Stroyny four police horses has led to police accusations that the Council does t give a Damn about our sergeant Pat de Caen leading a Montreal police brotherhood Campaign to save the mounted police Section from extinction said the horses Are great crowd gatherers and Good Public the policemen who consider the horses As pets have said they will not allow sunny matinee Prince and Tempee to be destroyed. One officer said we won t let them wind up in a can of dog food or a pot of the mounted Section started in the Early 1900s to patrol traffic and direct crowds numbered 27 horses in 1974, but has dwindled to 19. Sergeant de Caen feels the Cost of keeping the horses is an expenditure the Public supports. One policeman pointed out the horses can go where cars cannot and said Parks still patrolled by the mounted police have not seen a murder in 1c years and almost no rapes or robberies. Sergeant de Caen said Toronto police have 61 horses and Are looking for More while Chicago and Philadelphia Are Starling up their mounted police sections again because they now realize it was a mistake to do away with King feared stimulation of Western separatism from soviet spy expose letters produced in controversy Ottawa up the transport department re versed itself in 1972 in Grant ing sky shops Export Ltd. A five year Extension on the lease for its duty free shop at Montreal International air port at Elmer Mac Kay Nova said wednesday. At a news conference or. Mackay produced a letter and Telegram from two senior transport officials in 1970 Tell ing sky shops that the Airport lease would be put up for pub lie tender in 1975. That decision was reversed in 1972 when the lease was extended to 19so. A few months later shareholders sold out to p. Lawson travel. The shareholders included Liberal senator Louis i Sucre a party fund Raiser in Montreal who bought shares of sky shops Stock for in june 1972, and sold it in november 1972, for making a profit. Major shareholders had sold part of their holdings to senator Giguere at a share four months before Lawson paid a share and six months after an offer to shareholders of Stock at a share or. Mackay said. He asked Why they would take an extraordinary loss on the Sale to senator Giguere. He produced a Telegram from 0. G. Sooner then Deputy minister of transport to sky shops president Louis la Prinle in june 1970, in which or. Lapointe was told the lease would not be extended beyond nov. 30, 1975, and tenders would be called at that time for All Concession shops. A month later t. Ii. Mcgrath assistant director of the department s airports and Field operations Section wrote Lionel Chevrier acting As sky shops spokesman Saemg the sky shops shop had been profitable and the department could see no reason for extending the lease beyond 1975 without Public tenders. Or. Mackay said that or. Chevrier member the Montreal Law firm of Geof Frion and prud homme prob ably was hired because he would be influential in trying to further sky shops inter ests or. Chevrier had been transport minister from 1945 to 1954 and a member of the Mackenzie King St. Laurent and Pearson cabinets. Or. Mackay produced what he said was a Bill to sky shops from Geoffrion and prud homme for dated oct. 2, 1970, it outlined efforts to gain a lease Exten Sion through discussions with or. Mcgrath and Eric win Sor director general of air ports and construction ser vices in the transport depart ment. Ottawa up former prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King feared news of the existence of a russian spy network in Canada 30 years ago would encourage the Western provinces to seek Protection by joining the United states. These concerns Are contained in a secret diary kept by the former Liberal prime minister on the Guzenko spy affair. The diary was made Public in the Public archives for the first time wednesday. Although release of the diary was delayed for a week because of concerns about possible Security problems most of the key sections of the secret diary which covers sept. 6 to oct. 31, 1945, already Are included in the Mackenzie King record an edited version of the 1939-48 King diaries written by j. W1. Pickersgill six years ago. Other King diaries and papers for 1945 were made Public new year s Day. The 60-Page typed diary includes accounts of icing s visits to then . Pres ident Harry Truman in Washington in september followed by consultations with then British prime minister Clem ent Attlee in London at which the spy network was Dis cussed. Existence of the spy net work was not made Public until february 1946. King wrote in his diary that he feared Canada would be come a Battleground in any future atomic War with the .s.r. And he told the Brit ish foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin that he feared revela Tion of the spy network would cause alarm in the West. I was certain that unless we secured in some satisfactory Way the relations with Russia in a manner which would remove fear our own people in . And on the Prairies would All become very Strong for looking to the . For Protection that we needed. Said that this would inevitably Lead to an annexation movement which might be hard to King wrote. King believed that exis tence of the spy network was evidence of the danger that the soviet Union might not hesitate to use the atomic bomb if it had one. What i feel is that neither the u.k., the . Or Canada would Ever use the atomic bomb As a Surprise he i do not feel the same Way about a country that uses espionage on a National scale As it is being used against Canada the diaries recount King s initial scepticism when Igor i Yuzenko a clerk at the soviet embassy in Ottawa first sought to turn Lii self in at then Justice minister Louis St. Laurent s office on sept. 6, 1945. But the scepticism turned to alarm a Day later after an attempt by soviet agents to break into Guzenko s apart ment and the cipher clerk s revelations to the ramp of extensive spying activity within the Federal govern ment. King said Norman Robert son undersecretary of state for external affairs was Dis traught and considered the episode to be like a it signalled a reversal in what were thought to be Friendly relations with the .s.r., he said. King resisted pressure from the soviet embassy to turn Over Guzenko for Deporta Tion to the soviet Union to face the death penalty on charges of theft. A decision was made to notify British and american intelligence authorities and to keep news of the defection from the Public As Long As possible. The whole business makes Clear a vast espionage sys King wrote sept. 11. Guzenko has been taken away by tie mounted police. They have him is wife and child in some unknown part being opening the secret diary still does not solve another mystery concerning the diaries of the Bachelor King who was prime minister for 21 years. The diaries for nov. 9-to dec. 91, 1945, have disappeared. They were not among the papers assembled after King s death in july 1950 and have never been accounted for. Diaries for the years after 1945 Are to be opened to the Public one year at a Lime according to the 30-year Rule for secret documents. Lord Byron on dining out. 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