_--_ FesRuarky 16 # n cmeinnmuem' % uciciie uce mt sams. M6estieunis s 1 Equip Force for Fi quip Force tor Finns, _ _Hunter's Plea to Hous ' uUnTer s e e (By RALPH HYMAN.) is a matter for the Federal Gov-! (Staff Writer, The Globe and Mail.) | ernment." | Deficits or no deficits, Colonel But Colonel Hunter, one--time Fraser Hunter wants the Hepburn Bengal Lancer, who has served his _ Government to dig down into its | Empire in sun--baked lands Across treasury and hand over $1,000,000 | the seas, isn't concerned with the to send a Canadian volunteer | qistinctions between Federal and division to Finland. _ Provincial jurisdictions. He be-- * The voice of the militant colonel lieves democracy is in peril, and was raised in the Legislature yes-- |that should be enough to bring rerday when he urged the Govern-- | quick action, whether it be Federal, ment to vol€ | Provincial or municipal. the """'-';"ry' The veteran soldier revealed to money. When | the House that he has become a 6 he had {in-- | recruiting officer for the volunteer [ § ished, there|contingent. He also told the As-- gif was no rePly |sembly that he had turned down a ts s 0 C *« from _ the|Federal nomination in a constitu-- l . ~~of ~ [ § C a b in e t\ ency because he wanted to do his lke group, _ a n d | bit toward aiding Finland. & , the House| Night after night Colonel Fraser .. W@#erme@aiitl S DCN V _ the | Hunter, with the onergy and en-- _ (H next hour lis= | thusiasm of a man forty years his ; C tening t0|junior, goes about the task of rais-- * e P re m ie T |ing help for Finland. He feels it is .. Hepburn's|a sacred cause, Jjust as important as /--~-- P44 _ 3""8" ad-- | any other phase of the war effort. + ress. "Let Finland die and we may well Colonel Hunter. Hon. HMarry | ask ourselves what we are fighting Nixon later summed up the Gov--| i oommmmmmmnmmmmmmmnm ernmgnt's attitude in these words: | f9"." he said grimly iast night as "We are not conducting a war. It' he prepared to spend a busy eve-- ning speaking to various organiza-- tions in behalf of that country. 4 "All this talk about deficits doesn't impress me one bit," he con-- tinued. "Democracy is being stran-- gled across the sea and we sit here f and talk about it being a Federal matter. We can spare the money. Thousands of Canadians want to do their bit and it takes money to equip and train them and send f them over." Vehement Appeal. s Colonel Hunter would give all he| possessed to be a quarter of a cen-' tury younger. He would be in 1hel f thick of the fight himself if he| could drop "just a few years" from | his shoulders. But while the relenl-' less march of the years have madet him obsolete in the active military | sense, there is nothing to stop him from serving the principles which he believes are endangered. |_Won't Stop Trying. ' '"The fate of Europe may be de--| _ 'The member for St. Patrick cided on the battlefields of Fin--|, won't get his million dollars, nor | land," he declared. "What are wel any other sum of money, at least| waiting for? Let us help the brave' not from the Legislature. But thatf Finns show the world that dem--| won't stop him from trying. Outside | ocracy is a real and vital way of| the political field he is a one--man : life and that men, of their own free| erusade on behalf of democracy. He| > will, have come thousands of miles kpends his nights and days inter-- to lay down their lives if nceed be,| viéwing, appealing. planning and * In defense of that principle. Are we f scheming to raise the sinews of war. going to wait until the war gets On | 'There is a gleam in his eyes and our own doorstep." | & ring in his voice as he goes about To the Legislature, Colonel Hun--| pijg jop, ter made a vehement appeal. He| Politics in wartime have little told the House a division of Cana-- appeal to the former Bengal Lan-- dian volunteers was ready to £0| cer, In the days of uneasy peace but lacked funds. A million dollars| pefore the outbreak of war, he would enable the committee hand--| would voice views on politics which ling the enlistments to send this| spoweq him to be a rebel at heart division overseas. | aginst conventional pattern laid ® "If Finland is destroyed," he| gown for a back--bencher. warned, "you may never have an--| And there was a time when he other Budget to present in this' would go back in his mind over the Province. I would urge you to show | years he has spent fighting and you mean business by granting a[ campaigning in many lands and substantial credit. No man is beingl tell stories of adventure that had accepted as a volunteer unless he lost nothing in scope with the pass-- has first been rejected by the Cana-! ing of the years. dian military authorities. The work But all that is past. The days and of Canadian commercial fliers in the' nights are too short for everything far north and the similarity of} the colonel wants to do. Deficits Or climate in Canada and Finland; no deficits, he firmly believes'that render Canadian volunteers particu--| Ontario should come to the aid Of | larly suitable for service in Fin-i Finland with something more thanl land." _ kind words.