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18 Gil OSHAWA TIMES, Fridey, July 31, 1964 FARM AID ISSUE Tory Would Oust Judge -- By RONALD LEBEL OTTAWA (CP) --Blunt- spoken Jack McIntosh slashed) back in the Commons Thursday night at Saskatchewan Judge Harold W. Pope who criticized the Conservative MP in his re- port on a judicial inquiry into Prairie Farm Assistance bene- fits. The member for Swift Cur- rent-Maple Creek said Judge Pope is a Liberal supporter who suppressed evidence and who should be impeached from the bench. He charged the judge with ne- glecting to call a key witness and making misleading, pro- Liberal and political statements in his report, tabled in the Com- mons Wednesday by Prime Min- ister Pearson, -- Mr. Mclntosh's speech was punctuated by cries of "shame" from Liberal benches. Two Lib- eral MPs accused nim of cast- ing aspersions on a judge. Mr. McIntosh said he wishes there was a procedure open to him to remove Judge Pope but unfortunately there isn't since the judge acted as a one-man commission of inquiry appointed by the federal government. CITES PRESSURE The 20,000-word Pope report stated that Mr. McIntosh unduly pressured the Prairie Farm As- sistance Administration to pay crop-failure benefits to about 1,000 farmers in the Swift Cur- rent area just before the 1063 federal election. Judge Pope found irregulari- ties in some of the payments and upheld. the dismissal of George Walker, PFAA supervi- sor for the Swift Current area. Mr. McIntosh spoke in an otherwise plodding,' listless de- bate on a bill granting the gov- ernment $700,000,000 in spending authority for August and Sep- tember. Conservative sources said they plan to keep the money debate rolling today and all of next week. It began Monday. The net effect is to push back the re- sumption of the acrimonious de- bate on the government resolu- tion for a maple leaf flag. "I wonder how mucn. this picayune inquiry cost the Cana- dian people," Mr. Mcintosh said. "I contend that it was not a judicial report, but a political report, I am surprised that any judge, knowing the political overtones of an inquiry of this sort, would jeopardize the inde- pendence of the judiciary by acting as a judge in this con- nection if not for some reason as yet unrevealed. "My immediate reaction to the commissioner's conclusion can be summed up in the latin 'suppression of the truth and suggestion of the false." POINTS Mr. Mcintosh said: lg The report has a pro-Lib- eral slant because Judge Pope was a defeated Liberal candi- date in Moose Jaw-Lake Centre and the two counsel for the in- quiry are prominent Liberal lawyers. 2. The testimony of 103 farm- ers at the inquiry did not turn up any evidence of irregulari- ties. 3. Mr. Walker was dismissed merely because he is a "sup- porter of the Tory party," at the instigation of an agriculture de- partment official, W. R. Bird. 4. Mr. Bird should have been called to testify at the inquiry but was not for some unex- plained reason. 5. PFAA is required by law to issue its compensation pay- ments in December of each lyear, but the 1,000 cheques in jquestion had been held up for three or four months by some federal official for political rea- sons. 6. The MP was only doing his duty. as an elected representa- tive in asking PFAA to issue the delayed cheques. WAS ALARMED Mr. McIntosh accused judge of making "very mislead- ing" statements in his report about the evidence presented at the inquiry. He was alarmed at some of these statements, espe- cially one to the effect that get accurate information frem farmers. These inspectors were honest men, as the evidence had shown, and the statement by Judge Pope was an affront to his po- sition. "Had the commissioner deliv- ered these conclusions in his ca- pacity as a judge prior '9 ac- cepting the commission, I would have taken action in this House the PFAA inspectors did not try tol Attorney Faces Assault Charge, Resigns Post BLIND RIVER, Ont. (CP) -- William Regan, assistant Crown attorney here who has been charged with assault causing bodily harm in connection with an incident at a party June 7, has resigned his post. Crown Attorney Richard | Sheeny of Sault Ste: Marie, Ont., announced in court Thursday that the resignation, which was tendered some time ago, has been accepted. Regan was charged Wednes- day with assault causing bodily harm along with Corporal George Allan of the provincial police Timmins detachment. De- tectives David Simser and N. Lefurgey of the Metropolitan Toronto police force were charged with common assault in connection with the same in- cident. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Harold East- man of Blind River, who laid) the charges, said they were. in| hospital for two weeks as a re-! sult of injuries sufefred in a} scuffle at the party in Regan's! apartment in this town, 65 miles) east of Sault Ste. Marie. Mr, Eastman, 43, and _ his) wife, the former Norma Phil-| Bell Board Bill Stalled | Over Bilingual Question OTTAWA (CP) -- The prob- lem of senior employment for French - Canadians and the question of monopoly versus pri- vate enterprise effectively stalled a Bell Telephone Com- pany bill in the Commons for the fourth time Thursday. Bell is seeking parliamentary authority to boost the number of its directors to 20 from 15, This is the sole provision of the bill, presented as a private bill and therefore limited to one hour of debating time each week. Louis-Joseph Pigeon (PC--Jol- iette }'Assomption Mont- calm) tangled with Lloyd Fran- cis (L--Carleton) and Bryce 'Mackasey (L--Verdun) on the employment question. And he teamed with Arnold Peters (NDP -- Timiskaming) in fighting for nationalization of the privately-owned telephone company which operates mostly in Ontario and Quebec. NO. DECISION The telephone bill was de- bated the full hour without com- ing to a decision, Mr. Francis said he is confi-| j}dent Bell intends to be fair to) French-Canadians in its promo- tion and employment practices. | | lips, 39, were not married at joner to Toronto and Corporal|pear in Blind River theitrate's court August 3. | {Allen was serving with | the time of the alleged assault.|Blind River OPP detachment at The Toronto detectives were|the time. | lin Blind River to return a pris-| The men are scheduled to ap-| magis- ' It was a delusion to think that by nationalizing Bell all com- munications problems would be solved, It was superficially easy to argue that the $63,000,000 Bell id in income taxes would go to lowering rates and berefit- ting consumers if the company was nationalized. If govern- ments didn't get this tax money from Bell they would have to raise it from the taxpayer some- how. Mr. Pigeon argued that Bell virtually dictates its prices to the government when communi- cations are required by govern- ment departments and agencies, because of Bell's near-monopoly in the field. He said French - Canadians don't hold even one per cent of important Bell jobs and Bell forces its French-speaking em- ployees to report in English. \IIraith is principal owner. Mr. Mackasey said he hates this kind of generalization. Mr. Pigeon hadn't documented one of his statements on employ- ment. Mr. Peters voiced tongue-in- cheek suspicions that Bell plans to increase its board of directors) because it wants to take over a) few smaller phone companies. He speculated on whether one of them is the Osgoode Phone Company, a smal! Ottawa-area company of which he said Privy Council President George Mc- f ra POWE WILL BE E€L_Lo these, AND a UNTIL CLOSING, SATU a to have him removed from that position. SEEKS RECOURSE "It is too bad that we have not some recourse within our country which would enable a person like that, to use an ac- tor's phrase, to be brought on the carpet." John Turner (L -- Montreal St. Lawrence-St. George) ac- cused Mr. Mcintosh of making unparliamentary remarks about a judge. Joe Macaluso (L--Ham- ilton West) interjected angrily: "Why doesn't the honorable member face him and tell him, instead of coming into this chamber and making low asper- sions against the judge?" "If this person had acted in the manner a judge should act, I would not be making these re- phrase, 'suppressio veri et sug- gestion falsi," which means, marks," Mr. Mcintosh shot back. INTERPRETING THE NEWS Peace Policing Thant Trip Crux By CARMAN CUMMING At various times U Thant, Charles de Gaulle and Nikita Khrushchev all have been de- scribed as inscrutable. So it is not surprising that Secretary-General Thant's vis- its to Paris and Moscow have shed little light on the comin showdown over the political structure of the United Nations. In some quarters Thant's mis- sion has been oversimplified into that of an international bill collector; dunning the French and Russians to pay up peace- keeping dues they owe to the world body. | It is true that finances--cold cash to keep the UN operating) --is one part of the problem) that took Thant/to Paris and| Moscow. But the real issue is| much more complicated and) much more important. | Basicallye it revolves on the! question of whether or not the| big powers will have control| over the main function of the UN: Keeping the peace. ment of the summer is a slight indication the French might bend from their previous stand and pay a part of the $16,000,000 they owe towards the now-dis- banded Congo force. This hope is based mainly on Thant's comment, after meeting with de Gaulle, that he was. con- vinced the French government "wishes to. participate more fully in the activities of the United Nations." The feeling at UN headquar- ters is that if the French can be persuaded to change course, the Soviet bloc would be almost totally isolated. Moscow might then be more disposed to seek| a compromise. | In Moscow, however, there was not a sign that Thant's visit was having any effect on the Soviets. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko repeated one of his' favorite lines to the ef- fect that Moscow would pay! "not one kopeck" for any UN) operation it considers illegal. At the UN, Western diplo- mats said this might be just another Soviet attempt to hold QUARREL OVER RIGHTS |to the toughest possible line un- |til the latest possible moment The Soviet Union and France Say this power should rest ex- iki i clusively with the 11-country se-| They grin. 'laa tis curity, council, as t | i f Gunns' planaad it at yg hig + hone alg least oe SM. ot "Sax Moscow's readiness to negotiate cisco in 1945. On the other hand,|_the Soviet proposal of three a large group of countries in-| weeks ago for establishment of sist that the general | should retain fhe "right whieh |3, Permanent Le eg force under it voted for itself in 1950--to actl council, control of the security when a big-power veto ham-|~ However one Western source, strings the council. io i ' Alongside this issue is the con. | losely augetiniions std ay tention of the French and Rus-|compromise that eme sid sians that the UN should not in-\ror oes wat emerges will : e - {not involve the assembly giv- volve itself in messy domestic] jn i y feuds, as in The Congo, but| "2 me BE Weney See bee should confine itself to keeping) tHe ¢ai : the peace between countries, Pag rg glider Faye The aim of Thant's trip, and) France, UN members had of the series of meetings among] reached "pretty complete unan- various countries at the UNlimity" on retaining the right of during the summer, is to find| the assembly to set up a po- a way to avoid a damaging col-|lice force and levy assessments lision on these issues when the] for it when the security council| oo assembly meets on Nov./is unable to act I 10. - If no solution is found betore| then. 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