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CANADIAN AMBAS sete ¥ simply: # ? go into detail. bassy here June 27, succeeding | ambassador Allan Anderson who tween two loyalties in attempt- Canadian Diplomat Gets Cuba Post First HAVANA (CP)--For his first ambassadorial job, Canada's George Perkins Kidd has drawn are few in number but highly outspoken--and disgruntled at the way things are going. an assignment that will d d all his natural tact and diplo- matic skill. The extreme sensitivity of his post as Canadian ambassador to Cuba is reflected in the Scots- born envoy's cautious approach to it. When asked how he views the present state of Cuban- Canadian relations he replies, "We are trying to maintain normal relations."»" He adds, almost apologeti- cally, that he would rather not "Though the engaging, soft- spoken diplomat doesn't say it| in so many words, this reticence is clearly a token of the tricki- ness of his new position. Kidd, 44, took over the em- was going into retirement. He represents a country caught be- ing to sustain a policy toward Cuba's far - left revolutionary government--and doing its best to uphold both. DELICATE TASK he pip: king British Col- umbian has also been spending a lot of time calling on and re- ceiving other ambassadors ac- credited to Cuba's capital and generally making acquaint- ances. "It is rather essential initially to meet as many people as pos- sible, so you will have the con- tacts," says Kidd, about half of Kingston, Ont., where he was on the National Defence College staff immediately before com- ing to Cuba. WARSAW ROMANCE While in Warsaw he met Lola Calverley, a Colorado girl who is how his wife. With Vesta, their eye stopping grownup St. Bernard Dog, they live in what Kidd describes as a '"'commo- dious" bi ial resid THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, August 10, 1961 © mar district--a high - ceilinged, stone and concrete structure. His hobbies are Canadian art --'not too fond of extreme ab- straction, though certainly I like elements of it"--and liter- ary Canadiana. The ambassador heads a 20- member embassy staff which in- cludes the following Canadians: P. A. Savard, Quebec, commer- cial counsellor; T. C. Hammond, Toronto, third secretary and registry; Miss Gwen Bottoms, real, communicator; McGovern, Ottawa, administra- in Havana's fashionable Mira- tion and consular. Toronto, secretary to the am- bassador; Michel Bernier, Mont- and Leo 1500 EUROPEAN GUESTS LONDON Hammersmith people are to be hosts this sum- mer to nearly 1500 guests from four continental towns with which the borough is linked in a cultural exchange. The four towns are Bologne-Billancourt, France; Anderlecht, Belgium; Newkolln, Germany and Zaan-| dam, Holland. Over 300 Ham-| mersmith people have been en- tertained this summer at Zaan-| dam. i | THEATRE DROP Number of movie theatres in| Japan was reduced by 216 dur-| ing the first three months of 1961, to 8,520. | whose 16 years in the external affairs department have been spent abroad. DIPLOMATS'S DAY He is at the office normally from 9 to 6--except when mak- ing calls--with time out for lunch. In the run of the day he is likely to: Receive visitors: handle an in- quiry from Ottawa or draw up a report for the external affairs] department; deal with the Cu. ban foreign ministry on some| matter; scan newspapers and a| host of other publications; gen-| erally supervise the embassy's| 20-member staff. [ Periodically there is the im-| portant--for a diplomat--busi-| ness of receptions to attend. First there is loyalty to its friend, the United States, now the foe of Fidel Castro's re- gime. Many people in the U.S. --and some in Canada--bitterl) resent the idea of Canadian dip- f lomats and Canadian business- SADOR TO CUBA Socialist Ceylon 'In Near Future COLOMBO (Reuters) -- The mill, and a tire and {ube fac-|ing overseas with tea-and - rubber - rich island of | Ceylon is moving gradually to-| wards a Socialist system of so-| ciety, with a republican form of government as its ultimate aim. Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, | Ceylon's prime minister, says! that she wants a "Socialist Cey- lon in the near future." Since she won power in July, 1960, to become the world's only| woman prime minister, Mrs. Bandaranaike has aimed stead- fly at increasing state control. tory. China has promised railroad equipment and now is a cus tomer for Ceylonese rubber paying for it with rice exports Poland is suplying sugar. A government-run petroleum peep get-acquainted talks with|1946. Though he was charge corporation has been given the cybhan government officials; on|d'affaires in Tel Aviv, Israel, at right to expropriate gasoline sta- the other, visits from resident one stage, this is his first assign- [tions and other installations be-| Canadian businessmen and Cu- ment as full ambassador. He companies. men continuing to deal with {Cuba. But there is also the question of loyalty to its own firmly-es- {tablished policy of maintaining diplomatic and commercial ties | with countries despite any res- |ervations Canada may have about their political systems. Kidd -- a war veteran eres major in northern France, he| |was badly wounded while serv- Winnipeg's Queen's Own Cameron High- landers--has been getting an earful of both sides of the Cu- ban question since settling into '| his seventh-floor office near Ha- vana's seafront. On the one hand there have {longing to British and U.S. oil| bans connected with established | has also served in Warsaw and | Canadian enterprises. The latter! Paris in addition to Ottawa and To improve his Spanish-- which he studied while in col- lege--he has an instructor come each morning to the office *'just for an hour's conversation." | Born in Glasgow, Kidd emi-| grated with his parents to Can-| ada at an early age and grew| up in Victoria. He attended the Universities of British Colum-| bia and Illinois. | | WOUNDED IN WAR On leaving Illinois with an |M.A. in economics and political science in 1940 he joined the army. In 1245, while serving as suffered multiple wounds from a tank shell, spending six months in hospital. | Today the ambassador shows no visible signs of the shrapnel wounds, though he says certain movements of his arms are | "restricted." | He joined external affairs in DISCOUNT SPECIALS! 0% to 50% OFF HUNDREDS OF ITEMS size. DISCOUNT PRICE . 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