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QUEEN'S PARK 'Managed' News Issue OTTAWA REPORT Special Interview Granted By Thant The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian N Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawo, Ontario T, L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1966 -- PAGE 4 | Can Canada Help Halt Chinking NATO Unity? President de Gaulle has .- long shown pronounced proclivity for rocking the boat, internationally -- now he seems intent on scuttling it. His decision to withdraw his re- maining forces previously assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization Command and to demand that the two principal NATO mili- tary headquarters should leave French territory is of serious con- cern. To say, as External Affairs Min- ister Martin has, that the French decision is "very regrettable" is rather understating the case. Brit- ish Foreign Secretary Michael Ste- wart has termed the Gaullist moves as a blow to the NATO defence sys- tem "upon which the security of the West and the freedom of mankind depénds". In essence De Gaulle is threaten- ing to supplant the Atlantic alliance with the old system of bilateral de- fence agreements. His action can undermine all that NATO means in defence against Soviet encroach- ment in Europe. The other 14 members of NATO disagree with the French thesis. They have declared that no system of bilateral arrangement can be a substitute for the security it pro- vides. Their declaration is: "The Atlan- tic alliance has ensured its eficacy as an independent instrument of de- fence and a deterrent by the main- tenance in peace time of an inte- grated and interdependent military organization, in which, as in no pre- vious alliance in history, the efforts and resources of each are combined for the common security of all". It was.such a system envisaged by the leaders of a Canadian Liber- al government in 1947 when they proposed the NATO defence pro- gram which integrated European and North American forces in a successful system not previously contemplated. NATO has worked well for a network encompassing nations separated by 5,000 mles and as diverse as West Germany, Ice- land and Turkey. Being so instrumental in its be- ginnings, Canada surely has a spec- ial stake in seeing that NATO con- tinue its necessary role. It certainly can't be that everyone is out of step but France's Grand Charles. An- other instance seems at hand for Canada to play its uniquely cast role in international affairs, in attempt- ing to bring him into line and to prevent a further chinking of NATO armor. Public Concern Whetted The attention of many Canadians including parliamentarians as prom. inent as Prime Minister Pearson, Opposition Leader Diefenbaker and New Democrat Stanley Knowles has been drawn to the case of Steven Truscott in recent days, As a 14- year-old Ontario boy in 1959 he was sentenced to hang charged with the murder and rape of a 12-year-old girl. The sentence was commuted and he is serving life imprison- ment. The Oshawa Times T. L. 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By mail in Province of Ontario outside corrier delivery orea, $15.00 per year. Other provinces and Commonwealth Countries, $18.00 per year. U.S.A, and foreign $27.00 per yeor, news Drono pore GOOD EVENING The current interest in his case has been created by a book written by Toronto journalist Isabel Le Bourdrais. The current edition of Maclean's Magazine carries an arti- cle based on it. Mrs. LeBourdrais studied the transcript of the boy's trial and be- came convinced that the boy was a normal young teen-ager and not guilty of the crime. She spent three years researching the facts and her book presents a persuasive case for an inquiry to re-examine the evi- dence. Besides a series of minor doubts, Mrs. LeBourdrais raises two major issus. The book says. there is con- flicting evidence about the time of death. One opinion made it possible for Truscott to have killed the girl; the other rules it out. The second area of doubt, according to the book, is the difference in opinions of auth- orities on the maturity of the per- son who committed the crime. The public concern which has re- sulted from the publication of Mrs, LeBourdrais book has been speed- ily reflected in the House of Com- mons, The prime minister has indi- cated an investigation will be un- dertaken. Whatever the findings, they can have wide and serious consequences, By PATRICK NICHOLSON NEW YORK -- Outside the headquarters of the United Na- tions here, 117 national flags snapped in the breeze while the spring sunshine brightened their rainbow hues. As I rode the ex- press elevator to the 38th floor office of U Thant, the secretary- general, I wondered at the material and_ political ad- vances man has made since the Roman legions marched on foot on their unfulfilled dream of uniting the world under their dominion. At this 11th hour in history, reason has- prevailed. Mankind rejects the concept of unity through conquest, and moves towards a managerial type of supra - national administration. Caesar and Kaiser, Napoleon and Hitler, in power through birth or blood, all enjoyed their brief triumphs. But no tyrant ever achieved by force the de- gree of potential world author- ity now voluntarily vested in the secretary-general of the United Nations and its Security Coun- cil. OTTAWA REPORT HONORED U Thant occasionally. gives massive press conferences. He had never before accorded a private interview to any West- ern journalist, I was told by our Foreign Minister. Hon. Paul Martin was obviously surprised and gratified that this privilege should be accorded to "Ottawa Report' when I made the re- quest While the long glass windows of his top floor office gave us a bird's eye panorama of the world's most ungovernable city, U Thant spoke to me of his hopes in his important task of ensuring peace and prosperity to our multi-governed world He asked that our talk should be off the record, and just for my background informa- tion. But when I asked him his opinion of Canada's proposal for a negotiated end to the war in Viet Nam, of Hon. Paul Martin's initiative on which the hopes of the whole world are now focussed, he did make one comment for the record "Tt welcome Mr. Martin's pro posal; it is the best possibility we have before us today for moving towards a U Thant was born in Burma 57 years ago. U, pronounced "oo, is ihe Burmese eqiiva= lent of "mister." He was in turn journalist, educationist, government official and per- sonal adviser to prime minis- ters until in 1957 he was appointed to represent his na- tion zt the UN. On Dag Ham- marskjold's death in 1961, he was the choice of all the United Nations to succeed him in the $46,200-a-year job as sec- retary-general. A MAN OF PEACE Serenity is the first charac teristic of Mister UN which the casual acquaintance will find most apparent. It implies the sincerity and conviction and dedication which he brings to his dclicate jut important task. And it strengthens him in the acute ioneliness at the top. For he must maintain himself lonely, despite the cosmopolitan crodedness of his life. "His life belongs to the world; only his thoughts are his own," his assistant, Ramses Nassif, told me. U Thant is a devout Buddhist; he can keep his thoughts his own because, in addition to his prayers, he fre- quently indulges the practice of withdrawing his thoughts. into 10-minute periods of meditation, Between his meetings with im- portant and influential world figures, while being driven to and from his office, or when relaxing at his rented 15-room home in the Bronx, he can de- tach his mind for deep reflec- tion. As one observer suggested to me, he suddenly becomes like a lotus blossom, floating tranquilly on the water yet seemingly apart from it U Thant's languages are Bur mese and Eng So are his tastes. His diet. ranges from Western wines at official fune+ tions to highly apiced Burmese cuisine at home. Neatly dressed in quiet but contl Wee clothes at work, he changes at home and eingyi----skirt iern ure weyl and ji. wet into th When his term of office ex pires in November, it is anticl pated here, he will a the expected unanimous request to continue ept Stock Market Means Business In Get-Tough Listing Policy By LARRY DWORKIN TORONTO (CP) -- The Tor- onto Stock Exchange is con- vincing people it means what it says in its new get-tough list- ing policy for dormant mining companies. When the policy was nounced last October, many. critics of the Exchange won- dered whether the move was just. window dressing--an_at- tempt to take off the heat re- sulting from two critical gov- ernment reports on aspects of the Exchange's operations. Since then, 18 companies have been stispended compared with 10 during the previous nine months and only seven in all of 1964 Under the new policy, panies. that don't meet mini- mum financial standards and haven't done any recent explora- tion or development work are to be suspended until they meet these requirements. If they don't meet them they are de- listed Exchange Vice President Mansel Ketchen says he hopes publicity given the policy and the Exchange's subsequent ac- tion will shock some dormant companies into improving them- selves. CHECKING COMPANIES The exchange, he adds, {fs keeping a close check on some an- com- other companies which may find themselves coming under the new policy "to make sure ade- quate funds are being used for exploration and not just admir- istrative costs." This hasn't always been done, as noted in the 'report last Oc- tober of the royal commission on Windfall Oils and Mines Ltd.: "In at least some cases, the profits which accrue to those en- gaged in raising finances and directing exploration are out of proportion to the money which goes into the actual exploration work." The problem with these com- panies--called shells--isn't that they are dormant, but rather that they can be taken over eas- ily and cheaply by unscrupulous promoters. Once. they have done this, the promoters can unload stock on a unwary public while operating under the cloak of respectibility of a TSE listing. Not everyone, however, agrees with the TSE's new pol- icy. Promoter Larry Labow-- who has had a company of his suspended under the policy-- says the ruling hurts sharehold- ers more than it hurts promo- ters When a stock is suspended or delisted, it is traded on the over- the - counter market, and its price often drops drastically. By Jack Gearin Redistribution? It's Just Around The Corner Can a Federal election be far off? Perhaps so, but things are humming politically around the hustings of Ontario riding these days. The NDP held a membership in the Hotel Genosha last Sun- day with a special speaker on hand, Desmond Morton of To- ronto, assistant-secretary of the Provincial party. Both the Liberals and PC's will hold gala pow-wows for the party faithful here next Friday night. The City of Oshawa Progres- sive Conservative Association is holding a dinner-meeting at the Hotel Genosha. Sy! Apps, MPP, Kingston, will be the guest speaker and "Mike"' Starr hopes to be on hand (unless the Mun- singer Follies are revived un- expectedly on the floor of the Commons). The Liberal Association of the Federal Riding of Ontario, not to be outdone, will have its own stellar attraction when it holds | it annual meeting at St. Mary's of the People Church Audi- torilum -- the guest speaker will he John R Matheson, MP , who is Par tary to Prime ter Lester B. Pearson, This will be the first meeting Leed iamen- secretary Minis- of the PC's City association since last November. The party chiefs are anxious to maintain a good esprit de'corps in the ranks in view of that historic event upcoming within the next two months -- the redistribu- tion of Oshawa riding (Albert V. Walker, MPP, Oshawa rid- ing,. has promised to make a special announcement on_ this subject Friday) Ron Sproule of Bay Ridges looks like a good bet to be re- elected president of the Liberal association; this will likely be the last meeting of the groups before the upcoming redistribu- tion of Ontario riding federal, slated to take place before the current Parliamentary session ends. Mr. Matheson, a lawyer, has made major speeches in Parliament on national unity and penitentiary reform. Syl Apps, best known as a former all-star centre with the Toronto M Leafs of the NHL,. is ch nan -of the -Pro- vincial Legislature's Select Committee on Youth (which held a one-day session in Osh- awa last year, during which several jocal briefs were pre- sented) Speaking inthe politically, William Cumpsty the NDP's full-time Ontario riding organ lzer, is happy. with the new up- surge in memberships. The NDP riding association now has a membership of 550 and 235 of these were signed on in the past two months. Mr. Cump- sty says that the party plans to have one meeting per month and that special instruction and organization classes will be held. regularly. Did you notice that the an- nual report of the City's Fire Department made no mention of the proposed new east-end fire station atop Hart's Hill to serve the densely-populated east end area? The City has the site and that station has been on the plar- ning boards for at least seven or eight years, but the money (some $400,000) can never seem to be found, This may sound like poppy- cock, but one of these days the fire department's luck is going to run out on an icy Hart's Hill and a disaster. will strike. The fire fighters will be thwarted in their efforts to get, the trucks up the hill' They will turn back desperately and approach their destination by a more northerly point while the fire.keeps burn- nz w.merrily ¥ very easily ha n building at the Seventh-Day ' ventist College. with ¢ Major fires are a tragic oc- currence, and Oshawa has had more than its share thus far this year with three to date. That's the way with fire -- it strikes just when you think you have it controlled. Take the case of Fire Chief Rae Hobbs. He was so proud of that 1945 fire loss record for the City, $118,589.42, as compared with the 1964 total of $272,652. The 1965 mark was also the second lowest since 1956 (the year 1960 was lower with $114,565). The City of Oshawa, incidentally, has had an average yearly fire loss of $306,858 during the 10 years. The heat is constantly on City Council to cut all possible costs (especially now 'that we have the latest bad news'from City Hall in the new mill rates), but the need for that east end fire station is more urgent now than it was five or six years ago. The Fire Department con- tinude its Hospital Fire Safety and Evacuation program at the Oshawa General Hospital for the fourth consecutive year: in 1965. Lectures are held on hos- pital fire. safety and the use and operation of extinguishers This is follewed by practical sessions outdoors. WHY NOT vic TORY sues DON'T jy HELD Us BACK a Pr aoe ">, ¢ 4 ¢ DOVES * 4 Noteor | | maveRATION? CANADA'S STORY THE SPIRIT OF '6 Riel Revolt Saved CPR By BOB BOWMAN Ay March 22, 1885 the govern- ment in Ottawa had received enough warnings about impend- ing rebellion on the prairies that Sir John A. Macdonald called out the militia. More than 2,000 men were mobilized in the west, exclusive of the North West Mounted Police, while an- other 3,000 were called out in Eastern Canada. W. G. Hardy in his book "From Sea Unto Sea" says that this might seem like '"'swinging a sledge ham- mer to crush a mosquito" but every man was needed in a dan- gerous situation. Riel and Dumont had only 500 Metis in their force, and only about half of them were armed. However there were other bands of Metis scattered through the west, and 1,000 Indians on the warpath. If Dumont had suc- ceeded in getting all the Indians to revolt, their number could have been 20,000. The Northwest rebellion may have saved the CPR which was always in financial difficulties as it was being built. The direc- tors kept calling on the govern- ment for more money, and the House of Commons was balk- ing. The new railway line saved the situation although there was a gap of 150 miles around the north of Lake Superior. ~ William Van Horne, who was in charge of the construction of the railway, undertook to de- liver the eastern troops to Qu'Appelle in 11 days, He got them there by laying rails on the ice of Lake Superior wher- ever possible. Where this could not be done, the troops were transported in sleighs, or walked. It was no avenge i" TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS March 22, 1966... The cruiser Oreto sailed from Liverpool under the flag of the Confederate States of America 104 years ago today----in 1862--the first of three commerce raiders built for the rebels in. Brit- ain, Despite the success of the U.S. Navy in closing Confederate ports, these three vessels had such long endurance that they effec- tively halted U.S. merchant trade, The Alabama _ cap- tured 68 ships during a 22- month cruise without once entering a Confederate port. At the end of the war the United States took legal ac- tion against Britain for building these ships and was awarded $15,500,000 by an arbitration council in 1872. 1312 -- Pope Clement V abolished the order of Knights Templar. 1848--The restoration of the Venetian Republic was proclaimed. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1916 -- Russian troops pressed on the Eastern Front; French units north of Salonika were attacked by Bulgarians; the liner Minne- apolis was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean, Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day--in 1941--mass resigna- tions of anti-Nazi officials in Yugoslavia were reported as political revolt spread through Be ade, South Af- rican bombers attacked Ital- jan garrisons at Harar and Diredawa. Ethiopia. joy-ride. The troops had to ride on open flat cars, and the tem- perature dropped to 50 below zero in the Chapleau - White River section. The CPR had proved its worth in a time of need, and got the money it needed to carry on. Even so it was a close call. The CPR was so nearly bankrupt that it could not send money to pay the men doing the construction work. There were strikes and threats of violence. The NWMP had to move into certain sections to keep control. Sir John A. Mac- donald and the Minister of Fi- nance both threatened to resign unless the cabinet would ap- prove another loan. Finally, this was done and the CPR was able to finish the building of the transcontinental line, wii OTHER EVENTS MARCH 22 1723--First book published in Canada: a catechism ---Reverend George Henry, a Presbyterian, began preaching in Quebec in a room in the Jesuit College 1765--The Stamp Act got Royal Assent 1778--Captain Cook named Cape Flattery, but pissed Strait of Juan de Fuca 1849--Baldwin, -Blake and Mac- kenzie burned in effigy in Toronto 1914--Stefannson left on expedi- tion to Cape Kellett 1922--Coal miners on strike in B.C, and Alberta until August 24 1929--Canadian schooner Alone' sunk by coastguard 1955--Violent storm caused $5,000,000 fire at Malton airport, Toronto "Pm US. ex, spies Go Together Sometimes, But Not Always By GORDON DONALDSON WASHINGTON (Special) One of the pathetic features of Can- ada's relationship to the Uni- ted States is that we can't make love, much less war, without dragging in Uncle Sam. Hence, the frantic attempst by the Pearson Government to get some support from Wash- ington for its theory that play- girl Gerda Munsinger was a spy. Despite a generation of Tech- nicolor extravaganzas immort- alizing the RCMP, the Mount- ies' reputation as spy - catch- ers has never been the great- est and if Justice Minister Lu- cien Cardin, who has access to the darkest files in the Mountie stables, could pronounce Mrs, Munsinger dead of leukemia when in fact she was alive and bursting with high-priced gos- sip, there seems little reason to trust any other RCMP re- ports on that case, WHO TO TURN TO So who can Mr, Pearson turn to for confirmation that Gerda was a. bad lot? Who but the FBI, stars of stage, screen and radio, who have seldom failed to unearth a Communist where one was required? Mr, Cardin said Gerda had been a spy before moving to Canada -- presumably in West Germany. She had lived in Mu- nich in the former American Zone, surrounded by the big- gest concentration of U.S. troops security and propaganda agen- cies in Europe. Well, was she a spy? Tht U.S. State Department was under considerable press- ure from Ottawa to. say that she was, if this could be done with any semblance or honesty. REFUSED ADMISSION Last week its spokesman Ro- bert McCloskey confirmed that Mrs.. Munsinger had been re- fused admission to the United States. in May 1953. He said the Canadian government had been given the ground for her rejection, but refused to reveal this himself. Such matters were confiden- tial, he said, As this is written, the Pear- son government has neither an- nounced nor leaked te the press the reason fo American picion of Gerda Which tends to confirm my information that the United Sta- sUS* tes has absolutely no proof that she was ever a spy in Germany, and that she was refused a visa on moral grounds. DOUBTFUL MORALS The FBI in 1953; says it has no file on her at the height of the McCarthy anti-red scare, the term "security Risk" was loose- ly thrown around. A girl of doubtful morals might become a "security risk" if she associ- ated with the wrong men. Under the 1952 McCarran im- migration: act anyone who had been a member of any com- munist or anarchist paper was automatically disbarred and could be called a security risk -- although this term does not appear in the act, However, all the immigration and security officials I have talked to, say there is an enor- mous difference between a risk -- particularly a McCarthy era risk -- and a person engaged in espionage, In 1953, the U.S. consulate in Munich was besieged by thou- sands of girls like Gerda, -- refugees from the East, state- less, without papers, desperate to get to the United States. Many, like Gerda, had been raped by the Russians and just as many had been f- -4 to steal for food and ' the borders of prostitul West Germany. Back Again By DON_O'HEARN TORONTG -- The govern- ment's program of "managed news" has been argued against in the house for the second straight year. : Cause of most concern is free- tape service which the govern- ment provides to radio and TV stations, The tapes are pre- pared by Don Fairbarn, an in- dependent. producer and com- mentator, on a fee basis. The opposition argues -- cor- rectly--that the tapes, issued as a weekly roundup, feature only the government side of the news and government speakers, When looked at realistically there can't be any argument that this practice 1s bad in prin- ciple. The foundation of our system is based on two sides. Its structure is that there. is one party in power and an al- ternative party waiting in the wings. SHOULD BE CHOICE And its whole strength centres on there being an open choice, a balanced and informed choice, between the government and the alternative. This can't be when the gov- ernment uses the machinery of public administration for propa- ganda. It destroys any hope of balance. You might say it is like hav- ing the other team in a hockey game play without sticks. There are no tidy answers to the question of the dissemina- tion of government news. The news must get out. There is a responsibility on government to see that it is available. But there also is the problem of the system, and protection against the use of unfair advan- tage. Ideally in any decision on news dissemination this should be the ruling factor FINE LINE EXISTS But then there is a fine line between what is proper and what is offensive. There prob- ably are ways in which a better approach could be worked out. The writer has felt that a multi - party committee might carry out a walking-boss fune» tion on government publicity; keeping an eye out for more extreme abuses, such as the radio tapes, and working to- wards a better deal for the opposition parties, This, however, is probably Utopian thinking. It would mean a radical innovation in our polit- ical structure. And radical in- novations are introduced only when there is extreme public pressure, There apparently 4s little pub- lic interest in this question of news policies. And one can't see much chance of improvement. Pall Of Red Dust Signals Drought SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) A huge pall of red dust covers the northwest corner of New South Wales. It covers the misery of the parched and devastated sheep and cattle stations (ranches) of this region, At Tilpa and Lough, in the centre of the, drought-stricken area, all vegetation is gone and sand - drifts pile high against trees and fences. A few miles west of the town of Bourke, 400 miles northwest of Sydney, the drifts begin. Here the more determined of the graziers and their families are sticking to their properties. Many never stop cutting mulga scrub to keep the remnants of their sheep flocks alive. Most of them have used up re- serves of fodder accumulated in the series of good seasons and now survive on loans from banks and pastoral companies, LOSE STOCK Those who havé kept their stock on their properties, gam- bling that rain would fall, have lost most of them. Only 2,000 head of flocks that used to num- ber 7,000 emain alive. Water resources have been reduced to the lowest level any- one can remember. Most of the inland river systems are dry ditches. Thousands of square miles are a vast dustbowl. 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