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see NH EMER MOE LOT TWO LETTERS "Dear Mr. PM... OTTAWA (CP)-~Texts of Fi- nance Minister Gordon's Jetter of resignation and Prime Minis- ter Pearson's reply: Dear Mr, Prime Minister: For many months as one of your senior ministers, I urged you to call an election on the grounds we needed a majority to govern the country well and to ensure the kind of stability I thought was needed, As chairman of the Liberal party's national campaign com- mittee I believed that if you con- ducted a good campaign we would obtain a comfortable ma- Dear Walter... Dear Walter: I have received your letter and I have also thought over the talk which, at my request, we had subsequently this after- noon, I cannot accept your assump- tion of responsibility for the de- cision to hold the recent election which, while it confirmed our position as a government with considerably the largest support in the House of Commons, did not give us the majority of members we sought, You and others advised me to hold the election at this time, for reasons which seemed perfectly valid, but the decision was mine and the sole responsibility for the de- cision remains mine, Nevertheless you have con- firmed to me verbally the wish you expressed in your letter, to resign from the government, You know how much I regret this decision and my. inability to persuade you to take another cabinet post where the responsi- bilities would not be so heavy and continuous as they have been in finance, In the circum. stances, I have no choice but to accept your resignation, In re- jority, You campaign was su- perb in every way. You could not have done any better or any more than you did, The conclusion is quite clear, I gave you bad advice, both as a minister. and as campaign chairman, I accept full responsi- bility for this and therefore sub- mit my resignation from the cabinet, If there is anything I can ever do for you at any time, you know all you have to do is let me know. With very best wishes, Yours sincerely, W. L. Gordon restore the fortunes of our party) from the low point of 1958 to a position which resulted in our victory of 1963 and the defeat of the attempts of the opposition parties to reverse that victory in 1965, I am in the best position to know what we owe you for your wholly dedicated, efficient and untiring work in the party organization I also want to express my| deep appreciation for what you have accomplished as minister' of finance in putting into effect fiscal policies which have done much to bring about and main- tain the expansion and prosper- ity Canada at present enjoys; These public) school stu- dents observed Remem- {maximum control possible over) their own economic and indus- trial development as essential to By Railways the development of the nation.) Ps jective with you. Beyond adequate acknowledg-|crews worked Thursday to vlear ment, is what I owe to you in|wreckage at the site of a train friendship, encouragement and/crash that took two lives, de drawal from the government| up about 200 feet of track at} will not alter our personal re-|nearby Port Credit, lationship in any way, as some-| cnNR spokesman R. H. Tivy gretfully doing so, I want to add this, more, indeed | do not know any- one who has done as much, to No single person has 'any"| = s s e,8 Despite Quiet Disposition, :";.'si0¢*mestzton min tame ne pac | HUNTING thing which has meant so much/said damage mig to me over so many years andiihan $100,000, A spokesman at which will continue, the CNR-CPR station at Port Kindest personal regards, --|Gredit said it might be two or| Sincerely|three days before wreckage {s| fully cleared away, Meanwhile, both railways and the board of transport commis ht total more L. B. Pearson main line which is protected by automatic block signals, The crash occurred early brance Day here Thursday with their own interpreta- By FRASER MacDOUGALL OTTAWA (CP) -- Mitchell Sharp ranks as the odds-on fa- You know that I share this ob-| TORONTO (CP) --. Canadian vorite to succeed to the finance|ence courses. \National and Canadian Pacific|portfolio vacated Thursday|to post-graduate studies, | Why Pay More... actively | | | running against In 1942, he came to Ottawa|Mr, Fleming in Eglinton in the ae gal, night by the resignation of Wal- ter Gordon, The 54-year-old trade minis- litical colleagues to take on the most sensitive post in the cab- inet, Moreover, associates feel he has the confidence of the CUANA dian business community, -- an asset they look on as vital for the man who guides the coun-|deputy try's fiscal and monetary poli- cles, Initial speculation as to the cancy naturally ranged far be- lyond one man. One suggestion was that the FAR TOO YOUNG TO FORGET, BUT NOT TO REMEMBER tion of a service, This photo depicts the closing scene of their backyard service, as a bugler plays the last salute, Joint Probe Oddsmakers Figure Sharp 'watt dae" saces Into Crash (In Race For Gordon's Job and his University of Manitobajian Traction Light and Power graduation mostly by night\co,, an international utilities school classes and corres - ; , bags " then ne pro yon firm with its head office in Tor- includ-| onto. ug a year at the London School' In 1962 he plunged of Economics, into politics, support, I know that your with-|railed 20 freight cars and tore|ter stands high with close po-@nd joined the civil service in| June 18 election, He lost by 760 the finance department where|yotes. Mr. Fleming didn't con- he spent nine years, first as anitest the 1963 election and Mr, assistant to the deputy minister|Sharp won by a wide margin. and later as director of the eco-|He was re-elected Monday. nomic policy division. : In 1951 he switched to the BEST KILL IN NORTH minister, ernment service in 1958 to be- come a vice-president of Brazil-|of 46.2 per cent in 1964, trade department as associate | The best moose hunting in On- leaving goy-j|tario is in the Kenora district, | [which had a hunter success rate THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, November 12, 1965 3. . Cross-Section Of Opinion By ARTHUR L. GAVSHON __their pe orgs is ork LONDON (AP)--British offi-|listic. They say the real salva- cials and those from other|tion for Rhodesia's 4,000,000 white nations of the Common-|blacks lies with the blacks wealth say Rhodesia's rebel-|themselves, lious white settlers will soon) They will have to settle the find themselves isolated, friend-\differences dividing them, or- less, bankrupt and on thelrlganise a resistance movement knees. jand go through the ordeal of Diplomats from Asian Com-| blood, fire and suffering if they monwealth countries pre dict|ate to prove themselves worthy that Rhodesian Prime Minister|/of power. ' | Ian Smith will get away with it} One London representative of --for the time being. jan African. Commonwealth The Asians see it this way; |country commented: Smith's UDI--Unilateral Dec-| 'It will be a tough struggle laration of Independence--will|because we must expect Smith be a nine-day wonder in albit by bit to resort to the police world preoccupied with bigger|state methods used by his South things. African neighbors. But do not Resolutions will be passed by|be surprised to see a phase of such groups as the Organization|violence as Rhodesia's Africans of African Unity but lacking|learn to master the mechanics real power in the air or on the/of insurrection," ground, they are impotent to! Prime Minister Wilson and his cabinet believe that the Smith regime can be brought to its knees by a variety of eco- act, The UN Security Council will condemn UDI but won't agree on an effective method of in-jnomic pressures. They include \tervention, In time, many na-|political, trading and fiscal tions will get used to dealing|sanctions beginning with a ban with the Rhodesian government|on the import of Rhodesian to- leven if, at the outset, they re-|bacco, worth $70,000,000 a year, fuse to recognize it as they re-| Wilson's government is sure ifused to recognize Communist|Britain's friends will rally in- |China, \definitely to the attempt to | \quarantine Rhodesia, |AFRICANS AGREE | Many African diplomats in|IT DEPENDS London agree to some extent.) British officials concede their In private they concede that|forecasts of disaster for Smith's talk about armies of liberation] venture may well hinge' on the On What-Fate, Rhodesia? South Africa, The Portuguese territory of Mozambique bor- ders landlocked Rhodesia and so does South Africa, If, as may be expected, these coun- tries dis play benevolence to- ward Smith's action, then he can count on getting a lot of the goods and materials he needs from or through them. Similarly, he can count on mar- keting a lot of his products through them, if he can find anybody to buy them, 'On one big thing Asian, Af- rican and British diplomats agree: The Rhodesian crisis packs the explosive capacity of an atomic bomb in its racial im- plications. If the 220,000 whites slide into combat with the Negro major- ity, in time it could suck in out- side. powers, even a UN inter- ventionist force, This could af- fect race relations throughout the world, A British cabinet minister, speaking privately, offered this view: "Historically and in racial terms this situation could be compared with the detonation of the first atomic bomb, It could get out of control, Whites throughout Africa could become the target of African anger and frustration, marching on Rhodesia to help|positions taken by Portugal and ON PREMIUM QUALITY FUEL OIL Phone 668-3341 DX FUEL OIL Serving Oshawa -- Whitby & Ajax Districts "TeLonvon Tawny Canadian Pot NDON WINERY LIMITE Gordon Stirs Status Quo By STEWART MacLEOD Becoming finance minister as OTTAWA (CP)--For such a|/expected, Mr. Gordon jumped uiet, approachable individual, |!nto one of the hottest political Thursday when a CPR trainlresignation might provide the sped through an open switch|opening needed for Robert Win- and smashed into the caboose ters, the engineer who came of a CNR freight. back to political life Monday CPR engineer Cas-|with a victory in York West. CENTRE Joseph and CNR alter Gordon has had an al- ost uncanny knack of generat- seats in Parliament, He was a/°!4Y, 51, conductor! Since his defeat in 1957 when key planner of the government's Jack O'Connell, 46, were killed|pe was minister of public! famous "sixty days of deci- sion," preparing economic measures which he said would 'get the country rolling." ing controversy, He has seldom een out of it in the last 10 ears, Up te 1955, when he became chairman of the royal commis-| 'In just under two months it sion on Canada's economic pros-|as to be done--it will be done." pects few people outside Tor-| With it came his first budget, nto had heard of the slightly-/perhaps the most controversial tooped, sharp - featured ac-|budget in Parliament's history. ountant and management con-|For five months he was gunned ultant |by the opposition over his deci- But Prime Minister Louis St.|Sion to bring In outside consult- in the crash, Both men were from Toronto. Mr, the other train rammed it. |\CARS PILED UP The scene of the wreck was a jumble of cars piled up at! crazy. angles, One car lay across Highway 10, where it fell after being tossed from the tracks at an overpass. Another| car hung partly over the edge! works, the 55-year-old Nova Toronto, However, well - informed sources were inclined to put their money on Mr, Sharp, con- tending that his long career as high-ranking civil servant and| businessman, followed by 2% years as trade minister, pro- vide the background for the i O'Connell/scotian has carved out a@ suc-| was in the CNR caboose when!cessful career in business at! The same care Dad gives to his THE BEST PLACE TO KEEP A DEER er rifle, should apply to the venison Dad brings home, Shop Cherney's. 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They | Police u re ng loudspeakers) SUSkest trade might be the port- broadcast "a warning against|{lio for Mr. Winters, smoking near the wreck where _Mr. Sharp sits for play propane gas in tank cars and|/glinton, the seat held Lgl diesel fuel created a fire haz-\Years by Donald Fleming, who alorig with an expected contro-|Was modified, lard, |was minister of gy x cco versy over his recommendations) Mr, Gordon, who spent years) The railways put three mo- John Diefenbake r's " BA for the Maritimes--the future fi-|working toward the finance|bile cranes to work at the site|t!ve ag way d eb M uatien nance minister shot into the/portfolio, was given little chance| Thursday. Contents of railway|1962_ when he became jus headlines for a lengthy stay,|to survive. As the attacks inten-|C@rs were unloaded for ship: minister, a dink os and his name became synony-|sified he appeared wilted and ment by truck If Mr, Sharp ta a ge mous. with the Liberal party. |discouraged. Trains between Toronto and|Challenging finance gel his | But it appeared as though! But he bounced back, and the|Hamilton were rerouted|Will be in ee bi ccotie someone was always after his|graduate of Upper Canada Col-|through Brampton, Georgetown| Whole career. Hes spiny t his head. lege and Royal Military College|@"d Burlington Thursday, Com- plishing hard ry resins # ant After openly supporting Mr.\went 'on to present two more|muters were taken to Toronto) !ife, starting at dw salle ae. Pearson in the 1958 general elec-|hudgets, Opposition members,/ Thursday morning by buses|'0 work to help -- his tion, Mr, Gordon became one of|who had previously written his/hired by the railways, ily in his native Winn sh ' the chief behind-the-scenes ar-|political 'death notice, now, Road traffic was rerouted He left school to go to vee chitects of the Liberal party; al called him arrogant. | None of the eight other crew but completed -his-high--se! ool | ways playing a key role in pol-) He has always had a tendency; members hurt, The CPR] icy-making to needle opposition questioners, |CeW included fireman Malcolmjof 'Toronto, fireman Donald He became known in opposi-|With his customary throat| Robertson, conductor Wallis|Gassien, of Lindsay, Ont,, about tion ranks as a member of "the|clearing, he would often answer|54ines, and trainmen Donaid|25 miles easi of Peierdorough, Pearson brains trust,' a term questions by comparing existing| Norman and R. L, MacLeod.jand trainmen Michael Czapla that was not designed to be'circumstances with previous!!! are from Toronto land W. F. Atkinson, both of Tor- complimentary. Mr. Gordon and Conservative records, In many|,, The CNR crew was engineer|onto, ' Thom Kent, later to become Mr. cases a "'yes" or 'no would do.) R. K. Mortimore of Richmond} Port Credit is about 10 miles Pearson's policy secretary, got' But while opposition members) ll, Ont., about 10 miles north'west of Toronto. more attention from the opposi-|obviously set their sights on -- tion than most Liberal members|him in the Commons, he was enjoyed. : jnot unpopular with them in the REBUILT PARTY corridors, Mr. Gordon enjoys an Mr. Gordon was given much easy disposition, and he has a of the credit for rebuilding the ready smile for everyone, Wal party from its 49 - member|ter Gordon. the finance minister standing in 1958 to 99 in 1962, and "Wally" Gordon the cam- In his letter to the former fi-|paigner were far removed, nance minister Thursday, the He has been described as a prime minister said that "no cross between a thoughtful pro- single person has done more . . . fessor and a tweedy gentleman to restore the fortunes of our! farmer. A rather dry wit tends Pia Pere oa to' offset his lack of oratorical In 1962, Mr. Gordon packed power, .up his private business and en- There was little doubt that tered politics, winning Toronto|/Mr. Gordon was one of the chief Davenport and become the Lib-/forces behind Monday's elec érals' financial critic, But this tion, He felt confident that an was a particularly unproductive election would produce a major session for him, with no Con-jity government; he considered servative budget to criticize, His|his personal judgment to be on) first major speech was over-the line, and when a majority) shadowed in the news by Pres-|wasn't won, he quit the cabinet | ident Kennedy's speech on the) He always said he wouldn't} Cuban crisis. stay in government "until I am} However, the relatively - re-|carried out," but he didn't ex: laxed role of Opposition mem-|pect to go this soon, He'll now) ber, gave Mr. Gordon time to take a European vacation with| work for the party as nationaljhis wife, and as a private mem-/ campaign chairman. 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