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hye Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Thursday, September 28, 1961 Commitment To Peace Destroys Old Policy President Kennedy's declaration that the United States does not now seek "perfect solutions", and his oblique ac- ceptance of the reality of two Germanies, appear to mark the end of a U.S. policy that began in 1945 and was given its most explicit expression years later by John Foster Dulles. It was a policy based on expectation of a change in the political allegiance of the countries of Eastern Europe and was aimed at preventing political stabili- zation of that area. It covered: non- recognition of the Oder-Neisse boundary between Poland and Germany and of the Soviet absorption of the three Baltic states, part of East Prussia and a slice of Finland; encouragement of internal rebellion in the so-called "popu- 'lar democracies", and support of the aspirations of the Federal Republic of Germany to absorb the so-called Ger- man Democratic Republic -- which is what reunification of Germany really means. The framework was a political design to keep Eastern Europe in as unsettled a state as possible, in confident expectation that its present allegiance to Communism would come to an end in the foreseeable future. This policy only made sense if the United States was committed to active assistance of rebellions in the Communist slave states, and this could only mean war, because the slave states combined could not hope to defeat the Red Army. At the same time, the United States was committed to the preservation of world peace, and the events of the past decade show that this commitment was the honored one. When East Berliners rioted, when Hungarians rebelled, the Americans stood on the sidelines and cheered -- and did not go to war. The Dulles policy was then revealed to the world as a thing of words, not deeds. And now, finally, the Kennedy adminis. tration is tacitly admitting the poverty of that policy. Mr. Kennedy has now said that while the freedom of West Berlin is not negotiable, other German questions may be. The United States and the West cannot, without unbearable loss of self- respect, of the international standing and of power position in the world, agree to any sudden or gradual takeover of West Berlin by the Communists. But the maintenance of political and economic freedom of West Berlin is our only bind- ing commitment in that area. Jailing Of Lord Russell Many British and North American journals are disturbed by the jailing of Bertrand Russell, the aged British philosopher who has latterly draped himself in the mantle of high priest of panic. He has been leading public demonstrations against nuclear tests and in so doing condemning all statesmen for the sorry state of world affairs. His arrest, say the journals, was a blow against liberal thought, the right to dis- sent and so on, and was in any case callous treatment of a great man. . What they do not mention is that nc city or state can indefinitely allow elderly gentlemen to make public nuisance of themselves. At the best, Lord Russell and his followers having been creating disturbances, snarling traffic and taking up the time of policemen with other things do do; at the worst, they encourage a vicious enemy to be- lieve that the free world is so hopelessly divided that a campaign of terror will paralyze it. The Russell of today is not the bril- liant thinker of decades past. It is a tragic thing to see the clouding of so great a mind. He starts with a sound premise: The human species is too young in time, and holds too much promise of future development, to be destroyed now. But from there he veers wildly. There is still some logic to his argument that a Communist world is better than a nuclear war, because Com- munism would go the way of other isms But there is none in his apparent belief that demonstrations in London will some- how make a pacifist of Khrushchev And he is now so far removed from philosophical detachment that he sees no moral difference between Khrushchev and Kennedy, Macmillan or Gaitskell. He has apparently forgotten that the United States, when it had a monopoly of atomic power, proposed to turn these weapons over to the UN, and that the proposal was rejected by Russia, which then went on to build its own nuclear weapons and scuttle every attempt to limit or outlaw their production. The most disturbing flight from reason The Oshawa Sines T. L. WILSON, Publisher and General Manager C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times Sombining, The Oshawa Times lished 1871) ond itty Gazette and icle (established 1863), is published daily ond statutory holidave excepted), Memb: t Ci Daily Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- glation. 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USA. and Foreign 24.00, Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 by Lord Russell and similar demons- trators, however, is the clear assumption that there is only the hideous choice be- tween nuclear war or a Communist world, that there is no other policy open tc the free governments. This is the doctrine of panic and despair. It is the sort of thing that has always been heard when some powerful dictator has used or tried to use the weapon of terror to force his will on others. Hitler used it with some success, and now Khrushchev is doing exactly the same thing, with the terror-weapon more fearful than ever before in history. But there 'is a restraint on the Communists; they, too, must live under the terrible threat of destruction. There exists what might be called a common ground of terror -- and in this area there must be and there is room for maneouvre, for talk, for negotiation. While this is going on, of course, Russia is committing aggression against the whole world by exploding nuclear weapons high in the atmosphere. The air over Canada and the United States has carried the fallout from those tests, and in time, the fallout will be carried around the globe. This, too, is a form of international blackmail. As the Win- nipeg Free Press commented a few days ago: "Does Western policy really deserve to be cast into the outer darkness by Lord Russell and by those who share his These among the finest of our time, and think they of civilization by views? men women, are saving the values invoking a higher moral law. They are in reality deserting those values by en- couraging Russia, which recognizes no moral law at all, to believe that a divided opinion in the Western world will make all the easier the Soviet path of domine tion and conquest." Other Editor's Views FRENCH VIEW ON CUBA (Pierre Mendes-France in L'Express) No real military danger exists in that (Cuba). But a real danger does: The spread of the Cuban revolution and its anti - Yankeeism throughout Latin America, quarter political WHEN PROFITS ARE NOT (W. L. Clark in Windsor Star) A reader wants to know how the American Motors and United Auto Workers will share the losses, if the com- pany incurs any. You are not supposed to talk about that. Bible Thought Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. -- James 1:15, Neglect of God's forgiveness in Jesus Christ bringeth the death penalty. And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide, ~-- Genesis 24:63. Quiet meditation alone, with only the blue sky above and the green fields around us, will encourage deep and long thoughts of God. HOPED WED NEVER FIND OURSELVES THE BITTER "OLE OTTAWA REPORT Alternative Use Wu farmlands, and especially on the 4 bringing new hope to prairies, Alvin Hamilton is the "» farmer. Of Land Preached PATRICK NICHOLSON Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton has been called "The Christmas Tree Farmer" and "The Pothole Farmer." "They will be calling me 'The Blueberry Farmer' next," he told me. "But T don't mind what name I get, so long as I can keep on helping farmers to earn that extra income." He was talking to me about the new national farm policy which he is actively blue-printing. Our farm policies hitherto have too often amounted to the taxpayers assisting the farmers with subsidies whenever over- production or under-production occurs for whatever reason. This has made both farmer and city-dweller unhappy. Alvin Hamilton, raised on and wed into the Prairies, has sought a policy offering a sound solution; in this he has used some of the vision which he ap- plied so successfully to his for- mer responsibilities as minister of northern affairs. Today he sees our land as our greatest resource. "But if it is difficult to get a living off a farm in the conventional manner, then we must not be afraid to ex- plore alternative uses for that land," he told me Thus today, just short of one year since he became our 19th minister of agriculture, Alvin Hamilton has created an en- tirely new agricultural policy fo Canada: the policy of "'al- ternative land use" Perhaps it all started when he visited the 200 acres of rocky ungenerous soll which were granted to his ancestors when they settled In Canada, ns refu gees from the American revoln tionary His grandfather the of his family tence trom wir was Jast 10 serach 8 bare sibs that old tamily farm Veruna the heart of trio's United Binpiee Tayalist fens In On country 'The present uwhet land as uti the BUTE Det Yeal i 8 hesihiy slink Ye gler, If thal heautiful lake [id ba bitin tents the pasture, ahi vapnil Hye ravenna of 95 ren ghil liane itt I whith 5 His mini share lana wae propriate tise GALLUP POLL ap anil G6 6 village camping area, it might bring its owner a livelihood of as much as $9,000 a year Today 70 per cent of the cleared land in the Maritimes is submarginal as farmland. Mr. Hamilton advocates a switch to blueberry production, after which land now unsaleable could be worth $300 an acre. Forty per cent of the farm- land in Ontario and Quebec is similarly submarginal today. Mr. Hamilton advocats a switch to tree planting' which the government will assist. An acre of land which now yields only $5 a year with hard farm- ing could ultimately yield $30 a year in pulpwood, with Christ- mas trees as a lucrative interim crop, and with minimal atten. tion from the farmer. In the midwest, 20,000,000 Canadian and Americans like to hunt ducks, 70 per cent of which breed in Canada. Mr. Hamilton has proposed the creation of an international wildlife commis. sion to rationalize this and other situations. He envisages a $3 duck stamp on hunting licences, with the proceeds flowing to the farmers to encourage them to cut dug - outs, maintain their sloughs, plant grass round them and a couple of rows of barley nearby; this would save their regular crops and yield a lusty crop of ducks With such appropriate re- gional examples, Mr. Hamilton is preaching his gospel of alter- native land use. Why, he asks, should be a farmer slave to create an embarrassing two per cent of ovei-production of dairy products. for example, when he might increase his in- come, add to Canada's ameni- ties, and enjoy more leisure, by turning his land to some other Hse? Mr. Hamilton's new farm pol- 1ey 18 an welcome to farmer and vity dweller alike, To the Dief- enbaker government, it Is als showing possible electoral advantages merited by our first pulley with so much vision, All aorass Canada, in lush western Gutario and poor eastern Ons on other underprivileged reply fariu Little Difference Seen In Government Handling By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION Canadians are rapidly head- ing to a conviction that it makes no difference which political party runs the country. Today 44 percent of the voters thinks it does; 46 percent says it does not. This may be the result of current political confusion and Indecision in the voting mind, since the public showed a dif- ferent reaction in 1953. At that year, when the Liberals swept into power again, after many years in office, 63 percent of the voters believed it made a difference which party ruled the country. Only 27 percent dis- agreed. Recent political find- ings by the Gallup Poll, for the past year, have shown that fav- ors for the two major political parties are not clear-cut. To- day's findings may result from this situation, The question, used by Gallup Poll interviewers at repeated intervals since 1948 is this:. "Do you think it makes a great deal of difference which political party runs this coun try?" Checking on the findings in 1053 when the Liberals were In power, and in 1958 when the Conservatives li. thelr turn won a landslide, today's attitude shows a sharp decrease, which may be temporary, in the idea that political parties as such affect the way the country Is run. Today 4% 46 '53 '58 Yes, does 63% 57% No, does not 27 28 No Opinion 10 15 10 100% 100% 100% Does political bias affect vot- any degree? Analysis shows that adherents of the minority parties are the most convinced that there is a difference in which party runs the country. Among Conservatives a ma- jority thinks it makes no dif- ference; among Liberals the situation is reversed as the table below shows. Progres- Cons. Other Libs. Parties Yes, does 43% 519% 56% No, does not 51 45 37 No Opinion 6 4 7 100% 100% 100% World Copyright Reserved Yet he understandably finds ' this new job easier, hard though he is working at it. It was tough going to make Johnny Canuck i enthusiastic about Arctic oil- : fields which may be developed { 50 years hence, when he was minister of northern a'fairs; its easier to make friends among farmers by explaining now they may improve their lot. BYGONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Boy Scouts from all over On- tario assembled at Alexandra Park for the annual provincial Scout Jamboree. Mrs. Thomas Hoy, Oshawa's oldest resident, died at the age of 96. Oshawa Transit Co. applied to the city council for a franchise to operate a bus service in the city. Herbert C. Treneer, organist and choir leader of King Street United Church, who took a po- sition with the Canadian Na. tional Institute for the Blind, was presented with an ad- dress and tavelling bag by W. S. Pogson on behalf of the congregation. The annual Fall tournament of the Ontario Golf Association was played on the Oshawa course, The new clubhouse of the Whitby Bowling and Tennis Club was officially opened by J. M. Hicks, president of the Club. The annual Fall tourna- ment of the Bowling Club was held for the occasion, Four hundred citizens signed a petition asking for a redue- tion in the number of city al- dermen from 15 to 10. Ritson Road and Centre Street school playgrounds were officially opened with a field day held at each school. Ten Oshawa churches were represented with 167 choristers in attendance at the first com- bined rehearsal for a concert presentation in November, un- der the direction of Leonard M. Richer. Kinsmen's Club opened the season's activities with a din- ner. 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