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dil ina lei ln ili il, lh clint initia 22 THE COHAWA TIMES, Wodnosdey, December 20, 1961 France Presents Year-End Paradox) By ALAN HARVEY PARIS (CP) -- France pre-|most Europeans Algeria. sents an extraordinary specta-|They strike in the dark, send- cle at the fag end of 1961, Na- ing their mercenaries after tiona) rebirth rides with na-|"loyal" police inspectors. law- tional shame yers who defend Arabs, anyone They have the complicity of |j One eye of Marianne's ~. suspected of liberal tendencies. |f hy steed gleams bright and il of promise. The other isi secret army is baleful with old hatreds. The chilling fact is that the | growing in strength. It now has 80 support | For the French, like the Ger-jers in the French parliament. mans, have achieved an eco-|Therc were 209 plastic-bomb ex- nomic miracle. All the talk in|nlosions in the Paris area in a Paris is of "le renouveau"--|recent three-month period. rejuvenation, There is a new confidence. Businessmen who shrank from SPREADS POISON "The Algerian "gangrene,"| the perils of the Common Mar-|compounded of racial hate, eco-| ket now are ready to take on all comers. The old idea of ajunsettled scores, nomic worries and a thousand spreads its workshop industry depending on|poison into France, The future| hand production and an agri- cultural system hangs on a heartbeat. Nearly based on thejevery aspect of French life is peasant-family unit is giving|affected. way to new economic discip- es. France is one of the young- est countries in the world. There is an youth resulting from the high post-war birthrate. Key posi- True, people don't talk much about it. The casual visitor is tempted to believe that there is no real danger of France suc- "explosion" ofjcumbing to fascism and an- archy, Some Canadian officials in Paris discount the threat, tions in government and indus-|but those who know the seamy try are occupied by men in their 30s, and a new wave is lapping at their heels. EXPORT SURPLUS Despite enormous economic burdens, despite the drain of colonial wars, a notoriously bad system of taxation and aid to]! underdeveloped countries ex- ceeded only by the United States, this pation that has been fighting almost nonstop since 1939 has, surprisingly, an export surplus. France is reborn. French genius is back in the ascend- ant. Almost forgotten amid the new vitality is the demoraliz- ing, degrading wartime occupa- tion whose pressures set brother against brother and forced to the surface some of the worst, and occasionally the -- aspects of French charac- vind yet--there is a worm in on colts, a dark side of the moon The exciting new indus- trial rhythms, the lyric ca- dences of a France attuning it- self to the 20th century are largely lost in the explosions of the plastic-bomb gangs, the last spasm of the slow, sad, wast- ing war across the Mediter- ranean. BITTER DEADLOCK In Algeria, where so man opportunities have been miss there is bitter deadlock. Arab rebels can't win a mill- tary victory but they won't orders of a war-corrupted soci- ever give up Out of the ashes of burnt-|Could be a greater menace. f French renaissance thus has| / a painful side. On balance,| | out battle has arisen the illegal "secret army," a clandestine group of embittered ex-colonels, foreign legion deserters and paid Killers, black - jacketed -- pea poltciana ~~ Euro- assorted jment of emotion. The such a country." side of French politics are dis- turbed. | Whatever eulogies history may accord, General de Gaulle, some feel the chief of state bears a responsibility for what he calls his "box of sorrows" in Algeria, With his upper-class tradi-|| tions and military training, he has moved reluctantly against the law-breakers, while spurn- ing the support of democratic elements, A recent secret army meeting that rained threats a where three weeks earlier per- gerian peace rally. EVIL TAINT Although it pains well-wish- ers to say so, there will be an evil taint threatening as long as the secret army flourishes. Truth . lowers its voice and speaks in whispers; French schoo)boys practise electric paratroop brigade. Ten years ago, in a mater- nity clinic overlooking the beau- tiful Brittany coast, a young) Frenchman visiting his new-| born child succumbed to a mo; "Believe me," he said, "France is 'pourrie'--rotten. It is sad to bring up a child in He was referring to the dis- ety. The cancer of Algeria however, some optimism may be justified, Perhaps, in time, the new wave of youth will) wash away the politica! stain; perhaps economic wonders will heal France's one bai eye. BOOK CORNER Book Of Columns Handled Deftly By THE CANADIAN PRESS Too often, a collection of newspaper columns made into a book is just that--a collec- tion of newspaper columns. Deft handling of the articles that Harry J. Boyle has written for the Toronto Telegram over the years has turned them into a gentle, sensitive story of a boy growing up, in days long|!n Toronto, Harry Boyle writes gone and never to be reca tured, on a Western Ontariojhis family and relatives and of| farm. Perhaps Boyle is overly nos- ee caligpdlde g > gheed wer gh Yet he skilfully avoids sugary) Only the good things stand out. sentimentality as The tragedies, the petty things Clover moves smoothly from| at We cn 6 fama odd years| ome chapter to another to me ago are there, too, but they are subordinated. & <HAPPY BOOK The title reflects this. Mostly|The Telegram, says in a fore-| in Clover (Clarke, Irwin), Boyle's first book, is a series of reminiscences that tells of a} happy childhood and it's a happy book. It is evident that! despite parental discipline that| sometimes was stern he was mostly in clover in his growing- up, even in the tough days of the Depression of the 1930s. Now 46 and radio program de- velopment officer for the CBC movingly and affectionately of the mundane, day - to - day! happenings on a farm near God- erich in Ontario's Huron County. | Mostly in a book that is an ideal vehicle of escape from the present-day hurly-burly world. | B, T. Richardson, editor of| de Gaulle was held in a hall); mission was refused for an Al- y o shock tortures beloved of the'|f 10 TO 18 LBS. a5: SPECIAL! FINEST QUALITY GRADE "A" DUCKS, « AD 45: SPECIAL! "IDEAL FOR POULTRY DRESSING" 69: Pork Sausage Meat... SPECIAL! SWIFT'S PREMIUM Rindless Side Bacon word "A matvellous power to Canal Proposal Astonishing To Shippers PORT ARTHUR, Ont. (CP) A proposal by the mayor of the northwestern Ontario town of Geraldton that his community be linked to Lake Supevior by a canal astonished shipping ex- perts here. Geraldton is 100 miles from in mgd Soon Superior but ayor Ben ssman suggested canals to handle its output of iron ore. _A canal could run northward up the Pic River to Longlac and then northwest to Geraldton, or)mental history of the Royal could go from Lake Superior to|Canadian Army Service Corps Lake Nipigon and eastward|Called Wait for the through a system of small lakes|(McClelland and Stewart). and rivers, he said. R. B. Chandler, chairman ofjtories, this one will be of great the Lakehead harbor commis- sion, said: "Nothing is impos- sible, but I hardly think this scheme is practical. "The plan is certainly the vaporization of a fertile mind. A canal of this nature would have to be somewhat similar to the Welland Canal and the cost would run into billions." Cliff Lindeman, representa- tive of grain shippers, said: "Tt would be a good trick if he could do it, but I think it would be geographically impossible." evoke the sounds and sights) boyhood gone these four dec- ades commands the eye and the heart of the reader in every page." George MacLaren in An- tique Furniture by Nova.. Scotia Craftsmen (Ryerson) provides the first full and fermal account of cabinet- making in his native prov- ince. MacLaren, now cu- rator of the Provincial Mu- seam, Halifax, comes from a family of cabinetmakers. His illustrated book lists 35 pages of names and dates of cabinetmakers for the 100 years about 1880, Arnold Warren, a former airman, has written a regi- Waggon) Like most regimental his- interest to members and former members of the corps and pos- sibly to those in the army gen- erally, but it is of limited in- terest to the general public. The book contains a mass of jmatdrial and Warren has done his homework well. 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