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1 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, November 20, 1957 J§ Former Extortionist Gara Dvds | =. ons a ® ¢ L rt XK : : . Aids Struggling Firm : a . oy ission 18 that vu Now « PAY NEXT YEAR - USE OUR LAY- AWAY PLAN = : He is manage? of the Cara De. vian-Canadians, I stand just as 1| Canadian Press Staff Writer |this disparity in trade is not, in = Canadian Press Staff Writer (velopment Company Limited, |did before Newfoundland," Dr.| LONDON (AP) -- Against a|the main, due to any reluctance bod MONTREAL (CP)--A Latvian-|which at p handles special-| Valdmanis says. background of official optimism, on the part of Canadians to "buy born economist who ram hard|ties as diverse as jewelry and| Latvians remember that Alfred|but newspaper scepticism, Can-| British. ot . agr | helping pilot Newfound-|sporting "The word "de-|Valdmanis was one of 700 of the|ada this week opens a drive to| The chief reason is what The 1 toward industrial develop-|velopment" in the name is used country's brightest schoolboys divert a greater portion of her| Observer describes as the appar- ent is making a fresh begin-|in the E D bust sense; [ch by their government for|trade to the United Kingdom. [ent unwillingness of all but a min- g in Montreal, working for his|it may be droppped when experi- (leadership training when the Reversing the normal role be-|ority of British manufacturers people. mentation is over and the firm country was newly-free of Rus-|tween buyer aid seller, a mas-|"to divert business away from Alfred Valdmanis, who has settled on definite lines of sian domination following the|sive Ca trade 1 will ic and European buyers d pass for a decade younger mrchandi First World War. Constant weed-|arrive in London Friday, not to|and to take the long-term capital his 49 years,l.was released| | Plans for the company have|ing left only a dozen of the 700|sell Canadian goods but to en-|risk of setting up an efficient af- been on paper since last spring, by ih and Valdmanis was courage Briss maniisCtures to er-sales service across the At- almost a year has only been in business| among them. pay more attention to the Cana- , : ing part of Rg arid Yong ky a or vy It is located| He studied finance under the dian market. Sir Roy Dobson, chairman of e had been convicted in 1954/ln a small suite of offices on|most brilliant minds .in Europe| Although the purpose of the A. V. Roe (Canada) Ltd., and obtaining $210,000 by extortion|Sherbrooke Street, in Montreal's|and won degrees in philosphy, |government-apoointed '50 - man head of the Hawker Siddeley two German machinery high-grade retail section. law and economics. At 29 he was mission is primarily exploratory, |group's vast Canadian interests, |- panies with which he deait| Only a few blocks away, iron |Latvia's minister of finance, official circles in both Canada|is one British businessman with a$ Newfoundland's director-gen- ically, is a knitwear store which|trade and industry. {and the United Kingdom appear|personal knowledge of the inter- e of ec ic devel t-- handles products of a knitting] The Russians returned in 1940 confident that the visit will help|est in Canada, or lack of it, afd Premier Joseph Smallwood's mill at Brigus, Nfld, and of|and all cabinet ministers except|the Canadian government achieve shown by some firms. One of his right-hand man. A second charge/oth er manufacturing plant s| Valdmanis were shot. The follow- its announced objective of shift-| Canadian companies recently de- \ " NN inkolving $360,000 was dropped. (which Dr. Valdmanis helped|ing year the Nazis Gove gut he ing ee fhe Cnlfed Rugiom xp Sideq 10 re - equip with modern T0 ALL CHILDREN MAKING w t lant wi dland from |fiussians, Dr. Valdmanis le ne|wards of er cent of the im-| machinery. : 5 trying lo E der 0 ] ACCOMPANIED BY ADULT w he's trying to forget the Europe under provincial govern- Latvian underground until the|ports now obtained from the| "It represented an expenditure Newfoundland TE in the strug aope oe . 2 | Germans captured in in 1943. He United States. of several million dollars and I gle to get a young import-export|25 ST! OL DERS {says he was sentenced to die but GUARDIAN WARY gave orders that as much as pos- company on its feet. Cara Development is a comp-| saved by Swedish intervention. Newspaper scepticism ranges| sible was to be spent in the I'm making a new start--in|any started by 25 small stock-{HERO TO LATVIANS {from doubts about the willing-| United Kingdom," Sir Roy told a mre ways than one," says Dr. holders, all Latvian - Canadians, | By then he was a hero to his ness of British manufacturers to| reporter. Valdmanis, who in unguarded|who pooled their savings. Dr.|people. The high prestige and ili engage in earnest competition| "In the end, most of the mach- mbments looks worn as he sits|Valdmanis, who owns no shares, |{luence he enjoyed was of bene-| with United States firms now sel-|inery came from the United ind his small ofice behind a pa-|says Estonian - Canadians, only|fit to Latvians in Canadd when ling to Canada to a suggestion by|States and Germany because we pér-strewn desk. But his smile is/half as numerous as the Lat- he came to Ottawa in 1948. Itithe Manchester Guardian that|wanted the equipment inside 18 quick and his face unlined; his|vians, set the example when they Was there in 1950 that Premier|the trade mission is more inter-|months and most British manu- | thick black hair shows no trace/formed their own credit union. |Smallwood discovered in Dr.lested in selling Canadian goods|facturers said they couldn't meet | off grey, "To 99.9 per cent of all Lat- Valdmanis the financial wizard in the United Kingdom than in| that deadline." ® {he needed to build up his new phyying British goods. Sir Roy, whose Canadian con- | province. Newfoundland paid| Tast year the United Kingdom | cerns account for half-of Hawker . § a ROOM AND BOARD Valdmanis $10,000, then $25,000 a exported only $484,678,970 worth | Siddley's annual group turnover | ; year. I of goods tc Cahada or less than|of about £260,000,000, said he is : 0.4 wt . . Yow did he pecome Involved in one-eighth of the value of United |convinced that, if the trade mis- | ott . : : 2 |. 2 o " Hi ti States shipments across the bor-| sion encouraged British manufac- \: oo YOU NOT J YOU WANTED $35 FOR YOUR oe h 'Of the million Gacidions, We| der. At the same time the United | turers to "take a more nanifot | Nl Qt St grordy-c08CY FONLY HAVE RACCOON COAT..AND THATS V7 RST... ave to make m our lives," he gincdom imported $812,668,049| view" of the Canadian market, GN uw" nigh oh Pi WHAT 1 SOLD IT FOR!!,..I | Wms usp To | | Says, "no more than 100 are be-| worth of Canadian goods. "most of our troubles would be . ont ow PIV! ASKED $50, KNOWING THE HBHER MATHEMATICS. | | tween good and bad. | The most formidable obstacle lover." 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