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ala STENT a esi i ' file to say that THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tusetey, Merch 39, 1966 1966 '7 GERDA CASE SPARKS ROW (Continued From Page 6) the Commons March 4 -- he had been provoked, he said --or of discussing it at his press conference, called to ex- plain withdrawai of nis resig= | nation, Mr. Cardin did in fact go into details of his resignation and: its withdrawal..But when he was asked questions about the Munsinzer case, hé ans- wered freely. He charged that "two or more' ministers in Mr. Dief- enbaker's 1957-63 administra- tion' had been involved with one Gerda Hessler Munsinger who, he said, "had been en- aged in espionage work" be- i coming to Canada, He did not name the ministers, then or subsequentty. The main burden of Mr, Cardin's charge was that Mr. Diefenbaker had been aware of the Munsinger case but had mishandled it by not sending it to the legal officers of the justice department for an opinion. "I know enough about the case without Nghe seen the r. Diefen- baker did not handle that case as he should have," Mr, Car- | din told reporters, SAID RISK INVOLVED Mr. Cardin Said the affair was a 'bona fide security case."" Asked whether had been a security leak, he replied: "I am not in a pos'- tion to answer... that ques- tion as to whether or not there was a security leak, there was a risk." He said he had learned about the case when he was associate defence minister, his portfolio after the Liberals came to power in 1963, and presumed the RCMP had the file, Why had he not brought the case into the open long before if security was involved There has been no govern- ment answer to this question yet. Mr. fered one: cold storage in their hearts" to use against the Conserva- tives at' an opportune mo- ment. DENIED SPYING The 36-year-old blonde said she had never been a spy. But she had been a 'frequent companion'"'- of Pierre Se- vigny, former Conservative associate defence minister, and had had lunch a couple of times with George Hees when he was Conservative minister of trade. Tater Mrs. Munsinger was to change parts of her story as she sold it to the highest bidders. She got $5,000 from the CBC for an 18-minute in- terview and nearly $50,000 security Diefenbaker later of- from a West German feature | news agency for a "'serial." In the CBC interview denied a story she had told the Toronto Star about going in a Canadian government plane to Boston with Sevigny "for the races." Mr, Sevigny and Mrs, Mun- singer said their relationship was purely social. Mr, Sevigny, now out of pol- itics, said he had met her at a party in August, 1959, the month he was appointed asso- | ciate defence minister after | serving as Commons deputy Speaker. He said he is convinced she never was a security risk and he described Mr. Cardin as a "despicable, rotten little poli- tician" who had dug up some gossip. "I happen to love and re- | chil- | spect my wife and my dren and they have given me ample proof that they and respect me "We are in this fight, and it shall he a fight. together and we shall see it through to- gether." Mr. Hees said in a Com- mons statement March 15 that Mrs. Munsinger might well be right when she says lunched with him twice, he added that my personal conduct ardized security." MARRIED SOLDIER The immigration ment says; Mrs, Munsinger was born Gerda Hessler in 1929 in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, which was overrun by the Russians in the Second World War. She went to West Ger after the war, married an American soldier named Michael Munsinger, a profes- sional baseball player and now a Brooklyn policeman, but she was denied entry to the United States when he re- turned home. They were divorced and she lived in Canada, mainly in Montreal, from 1955 to early 1961 She says she was a girl who was "ruined" Russians when she was and insists she "would never move just a. little finger for them." But jeop- farm by the The full fury of the aroused Conservatives descended on Mr. Cardin in the Commons Thursday afternoon, March 5 ofter hie nrese con CHARGED SLANDER Mr. Diefenbaker, on a West Coast fishing trip; fired: off-a statement describing Mr. Car- din's Munsinge: remarks as | "a cowardly and slanderous attack bearing the imprint of McCarthyism." At various times, Mr, Car- din was described as "minis- ter of mud," "minister of injustice," a 'coward, slan- derer and a "Robespierre,"' No public business was transacted that day or for the two sitting days following. Speaker Lucien amoureux, new to the job,\ kept his nerve, though he Yonfessed he was lost sometimes ip the blizzard of motions_ahd ques- | tlons of privilege. Friday, March 11, began with the Speaker tossing out Conservative motions accus- ing Mr. Cardin of improper conduct and demanding that there | I -think | "They kept it in | she | Mr. | love | she | "at no time has | depart- | many | | him the leg 16 | | butt, scandal and smut" he prove his accusations. ORDERED INQUIRY Mr. Pearson then said the government would set up a | judicial inquiry by cabinet or- der. If the Opposition didn't like it, he said, it could no confidence in the govern- | ment and "throw us out," Mr. Pearson read a letter | from Mr. Cardin proposing a judicial inquiry into the "mis- | handling' of the Munsinger | affair by Mr. Diefenbaker | when he. was prime minister, The Cardin letter con- cluded: 'I have made make no other charges." "You cannot get away with that,"' shouted Michael Starr, move | and | former Conservative labor | | minister. "Cardinism," another servative thundered, 'It is not enough," Mr. | Starr said, "Names have to be named now, before that in | quiry is made, Does he (the prime minister) intend that the cloud of suspicion should rest upon the heads of all | those who are innocent" "A red - faced Mr, Pearson said his cabinet had been ac- | cused "collectively crime in the calendar." "We have been subjected to this kind of treatment for too long over here. And reputa- tions have been here.... "Now those gentlemen on | the other side of the house who have been so free with their accusations over the last few years are getting a little of it, and they don't like it." Tempers cooled somewhat during the weekend. On Monday, March 14, Mr. Pearson announced that the one - man royal commission into the Munsinger case would be Mr, Justice .W F. Spence, 62, of the Supreme Court. of Canada. The terms of reference would include examination of Con- | Mr. Cardin's press conference allegations against former ministers, Mr. Pearson said Parlia- ment was in a "frightening position" as the result of a long period of sessions carried on treme partisanship, bitter- ness, tension and suspicion, Unless this atmosphere, which disgraced Parliament and demeaned democracy, could be changed 'we all will have betrayed the trust and hopes of those who sent us here." Mr, Fulton said the Liberals were conducting a witchhunt on slim and shoddy evidence. weer ' ' WOULD T-CHECE..FILES The next Conservative gov- ernment would reject the in- vitation to ransack the file to see whether anything embar- rassing to the Liberals: could | be found. Mr. Fulton said his recol- lection of the RCMP's 1961 | Munsinger file--Mr. Pearson | had turned down his request | to see it again--established that Mr. Cardin proye 4is charges of a secur- | ity risk, | suggested that there had been a breach of securily. ruined over | had already done this for him, in an atmosphere of ex- | couldn't | | cluded | branch, | grudges mustn't of every | | though Health Minister | GERDA MUNSINGER is shown (left) in a glamor pose for a radio photog- rapher while she was living attempt to make a comdback from dispute. | 'THIS IS FASCISM' | There had never been a question of security in the case, Mr, Cardin had made a blanket condemnation by re- fusing to name names. "This is fascism at its worst,"' he said, pounding his desk. When he had become prime minister in 1957, he had or- dered that there be no scru- tiny of the records of the Liberal government: "Not one look or one peak; not one his colleagues in a last-ditch | file and not one examination. . We do not snoop. We do not slither," Mr. Diefenbaker quoted Mr, Pearson as saying in the 1957 case of E, Herbert Norman, Canadian ambassador to Cairo who committed suicide: " . , the details of a man's private life should not be the subject of accusations and re- buttal in public."' The Opposition leader con- by proffering an olive Harsh things were often said in the Commons but be nursed, he said "This unless dead. must not fail. is no freedom... . to work,"' Mr. Cardin broke his long silence He staked his: seat on the outcome of the inquiry, Allan MacEachen and Mr, Pearson Parliament is dead we resuscitate This institution Without it there Let's go and challenged Mr, Diefen- baker to do the same, it-- | in Montreal in the late 1950s. The picture at right was taken from the film of a CBC television interview It was the Liberals, he said, who had been fighting against witch hunt, accusations and in- sinuations. He hadn't been afraid to name names, But the "best, proper and fairest'? way to deal with the matter was to Plug - in "Profs" Prove Success B,C. have BURNABY, (CP)--Plug in professors clared' a success at Simon of Vancouver. Students studying first-year |biology are taking instruction from tape recorders instead of jteachers, As a result they are learning more and' learning faster, says Dr, Don. Nelson, : ; } head of the university's depart-| }ment of biological sciences. | 'We can use the tape to make a personal presentation in a voice that is relaxed," says Dr. KF, J. F. Fisher, assistant to Dr. Nelson "There is no shouting at the student, The student feels as if the instructor is ta'king with him personally "In spite of the presence of the machine there is more per- jsonal interaction between the | student and the instructor," | Dr, Fisher said the technique jis a variation of the language laboratory method used to teach foreign languages and is not 'a tape-lecture approach," Students sit in booths and lis }ten to taped lectures and in |struction on how to conduct experiments and what reference | books to use. Ho The file had not even | The police had been check- | ing Mrs. Munsinger from time | not on security but "in other connections,' Mr Fulton said. The file did not suggest any offence had been committed by any member of the federal government. 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