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    Che Guardian!

    Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew
    W. J. Hancox, Publisher

    Burton Lewis Frank Walker
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    __ WEDNESDA\ MAY 29, 1903.

    Wonders Of Science

    In future, tactics similar to the
    use of artificial mating calls in wild
    game hunting may be used in the
    fishery industry. This prospect was
    held out at the second world fishing
    gear congress in London this week
    by Dr. Donovan B. Finn, fisheries
    director of the United Nations Food
    and Agriculture Organization. It is
    all very tentative, for much has still
    to be learned about the behaviour
    patterns of fish. But progress is
    being made. Discovering the sounds
    that fish make when they are feed-
    ing or mating is an aspect now under
    study.

    Dr, Finn mentioned special sub-
    marines and diving equipment as
    being used for this purpose. Sub-
    merged in these devices, scientists
    are listening in to a lot of gossip
    that was not intended for their ears.
    The problem is to interpret this fish
    language intelligibly, identify the
    mating calls and develop equipment
    that will produce these calls arti-
    ficially with sufficient accuracy to
    fool the fish.

    It seems a rather mean way of
    showing man’s supremacy in the
    scale of things; but duck hunters
    have been using the strategy for
    years and getting away with it. No
    one has ever bothered about the out-
    raged feelings of ducks when vie-
    timized in this fashion. Fish are next
    on the list, and their love urgings
    are to be exploited in the same way.

    The idea is, by artificial mating
    calls, to lure the fish into nets,
    herd them there like cattle and har-
    vest them at will. But Dr. Finn—
    appropriate name for a fisheries
    director !—was careful to emphasize
    the difficulties in the way. Fish can
    be unpredictable in their amorous
    behaviour, just as humans not in-
    frequently are, and it may be some
    time before the new technique is
    developed successfully.

    Meanwhile, deep in their submer-
    sible laboratories, investigators are
    getting the lowdown on a lot of
    things they didn’t know before. Re-
    versing, in a way, the long evolu-
    tionary process that started—scien-
    tists assure us—in a wet environ-
    ment ages before there was life on
    land and man’s progenitor in the
    monkey family learned to swing
    from trees.

    Mr.. Massey On Unity

    Few Canadians are so well qual-
    ified, by culture and experience, to
    discuss the relations between
    French-speaking and English-speak-
    ing citizens as the Rt. Hon. Vincent
    Massey, former Governor General,
    whose voice was raised on this sub-
    ject at the convocation last week of
    Carleton University, Ottawa. Mr.
    Massey felt that there was an
    urgent problem here; a problem
    which was everyone's business, but
    most particularly the business of
    young Canadians preparing to enter
    the professions.

    “Tf you have not learned your
    other language,” Mr. Massey warn-
    ed the graduating class before him,
    “you have not fully entered into
    your heritage; and you are not
    equipped to improve and adorn it as
    you should.” All young people who

    complete even two years in high
    school, he said, should be able to
    read simple French, and to utter in
    the language at least a few sentences

    Dat once correct and comprehensible.
    Everyone planning to enter one of
    id apes (including teaching)
    the civil service, provincial or

    —

    —professional, technical, adminis-
    trative—should make himself thor-
    oughly competent in French, both
    written and spoken,

    Mr. Massey said he was talking
    “as an English-speaking Canadian
    ++. Very conscious of our errors in
    the past and in the present.” He
    recalled several instances to show
    that while in theory at least we are
    a bilingual country, in practise
    bilingualism is marked only by
    certain moderate guarantees of
    French, such as apply to Parlia-
    ment and the Federal courts. “Every
    measure leading to fuller bicultural-
    ism in Canada, such as the use of
    both languages on our currency, or
    stamps, or government cheques, has
    been attended by long and not al-
    ways harmonious discussions and
    the decision to use French in this
    way has often been finally accepted
    by those of the other language re-
    luctantly and with little grace. That
    is not the way unity is achieved.”

    Much has been said about wh at
    could be done through official en-
    quiries, through legislation, and reg-
    ulations of various kinds, Mr.
    Massey did not decry these efforts,
    but he emphasized that it is not in
    documents that the fundamental
    solution lies. “We will only achieve
    a full measure of unity when the
    people of Canada understand what
    it means and desire it,” he de-
    clared. “It will come as a result
    of what you and I and 18,000,000
    other people think and do, If we
    have the tolerance, the imagination,
    the foresight, we require, then light
    will shine on the road ahead.”

    A helpful beam of light
    has been thrown on this road in the
    thoughtful remarks above quoted.

    Embarrassing Questions

    When in opposition, Mr. Pearson
    and his colleagues had occasion fre-
    quently to complain about the lack
    of information available on matters
    relating to defense. Now they are
    finding merit, not infrequently, in
    the old adage that silence is golden.

    In the Commons on Monday
    the Prime Minister ‘declined to
    comment” on a statement by Mr.
    Justice J.T. Thorson of the Execu-
    tive Court of Canada and a former
    Liberal cabinet minister that the
    Government has “no mandate to ac-
    cept nuclear weapons.” Mr. Wool-
    liams, Conservative member for Bow
    River, who raised the question, also
    asked about a newspaper report that
    nuclear warheads would be supplied
    for Canada’s anti-aircraft Bomare
    missile this fall. Mr. Pearson said
    the question didn’t deserve a reply,
    since the matter could be discussed
    by the Commons defense committee
    which would be set up soon.

    Then External Affairs Minister
    Paul Martin found it necessary to
    decline twice to say whether or not
    the RCAF CF-104 bomber would be
    armed with a one-metagon bomb.
    Opposition Leader Diefenbaker rais-
    ed this query, and Mr. Martin’s only
    reply was that the Liberal govern-
    ment was merely living up to the
    nuclear commitments made by the
    Diefenbaker government.

    The Canadian Press supplies, in
    its report of this incident, the in-
    formation that a one-metagon bomb,
    equivalent to 1,000,000 tons of TNT,
    would’ be 50 times more powerful
    than the bomb which destroyed Hir-
    oshima in 1945.

    If this was a Diefenbaker gov-
    ernment commitment it’s surprising
    we haven't heard about it till now.

    EDITORIAL NOTES

    A suggestion that motorists
    drive with headlights on during day-
    light hours has ben endorsed by the
    Canadian Association of Optome-
    trists. The idea is that even during
    periods of good visibility it is easier
    to spot an oncoming vehicle if its
    lights are on. Numbers of bus and
    truck firms in the United States
    have found the practice of head-
    lights on during daylight hours a
    valuable safety factor.

    Cea

    Of the 13,410 immigrants enter-
    ing Canada in the first three months
    of 1963, only 3,901 were from Eng-
    land, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
    France, the latter sending 364. Most
    of the newcomers were from Europe,
    from countries ranging alphabetical-
    ly from Albania to Yugoslavia and
    including seven from Iceland and 2,-
    661 from Italy. It is recalled that in
    1901 no less than 87.7 per cent of
    the population belonged to the
    ethnic groups labelled in the census
    papers as “British Isles” (including
    Treland) and “French.”

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    “OLD CHARLOTTETOWN

    Prince Edward Island battery readying ancient cannon for action, 1875
    Copi

    ied By Craswell Portrait Studio

    OTTAWA REPORT by

    Patrick Nicholson

    | Can We Afford To Be Complacent?

    “Any day of the week you can)
    stand in any Canadian groce-
    teria and watch Canadian house-
    wives buying cartfuls of food;
    and from each cart there will |

    be wasted more food than many
    an Asian family will have to
    eat in the whole week.”

    Bob Thompson, leader of the
    Social Credit Party, made that
    statement in a private conversa-
    tion at a purely social gathering.
    One of his hearers was Mr. H.
    0. “Herb” Moran, the dedicated
    chief of Canada’s Foreign Aid |
    Office - and he agreed. I call}
    Herb “dedicated” becat he is
    more than a competent civil ser-
    vant doing that humane job; he
    was formerly Canadian High
    Commissioner to Pakistan, and
    while living in that country he
    was able to see what a huge gulf |
    there is between the Canadian
    | way of life and the Asian strug-
    gle for existence. |

    What Bob Thompson express- |
    ed so dramatically was the same
    thing that another Canadian
    said not long ago on Parliament
    Hill, in equally graphic words. |
    As guest speaker at the Senate
    and House of Commons volun-
    tary committee on health, Dr.
    Brock Chisholm asserted that i
    eighteen million Asians were t |
    be picked at: random to be per-
    mitted to scratch a living on the
    garbage dumps at the eighteen
    million inhabitants of Canada,
    they would improve their lot.
    That complacency - shattering
    remark is the most sensational
    single statement I have ever
    heard on Parliament Hill.

    SO WHAT?

    ‘This line of thought was awak-
    ened by a remark made by Miss
    Pauline Jewett, the newly-elect-
    ed Liberal MP. for Northumb-
    erland, Ontario, in her speech
    moving the address in reply to
    the Speech from the Throne at
    the opening of this Parliament.

    “People talk about the afflu-
    ent society we have," said the
    brilliant University Professor -

    iss Jewett is a professor of
    political science. “It is quite pos-
    sible there are a few members
    of our society who are sate
    ly affluent; but with very lars
    numbers, T should think close to
    | a third, this is certainly not the
    | ease. Many of them live in
    conditions that should not be tol-
    erated by any decent, thought. |
    ful_societ

    ‘Three - quarters of Canada’s
    trivial and criticised foreign aid

    PUBLIC FORUM

    ‘This coumn is open to me discussion

    regard. |

    NO PLANS MADE |

    Sir,—In the May 27th issue of |
    your newspaper you published
    a news story entitled “Political
    Rumors Are Prevalent
    which the writer states:

    “The Premier was undoubt-
    edly headed for the higher: post
    prior to the Conservative elec- |
    tion loss and it is understood lo-
    cal party plans for the naming
    of a new leader of the govern-
    ment were well advanced’.

    The responsibility of arrang-
    ing and holding a leadership |
    | convention within the Provin- |

    cial Progressive Conservative |

    Party rests solely with the Pro:

    vincial Executive, of which

    am President. I wish to inform
    you, Sir, that no plans of any
    nature were ever made to
    choose a successor to Premier

    Shaw, either formally ot infor-

    mally, by the ee Execu-

    tive of this Part
    T wou! ‘lady have informed
    your reporter of this

    seen fit to contact me, rather |

    than speculate.

    Yours very truly,
    GERALD R. FOSTER
    | Prince Edward Island Progres- |
    ive Conservative Association. |

    | later,

    is directed through the Colombo
    Plan. Last year, pleading finan- |
    Ifelaleatinceniey fect! government |
    | slashed our year’s contribution |
    from $50 million to $41.5 million.
    ‘That is approximately half the
    figure which our government
    contributed to help finance the
    operations of the Canadian
    Broadcasting Corporation; it is
    slightly less than was spent on
    various forms of alcoholic drinks
    in the province of Saskatchewan
    alone last year; it is equiva-
    Tent to less than one piece of
    bubble-gum per Canadian per,
    day; it is peanuts.

    DON'T PLEAD POVERTY

    Whatever else we may give as
    the reason for our contemptible
    measure of aid to other count- |
    ries, we should not plead that
    we cannot afford to give more.
    ‘That is the worst form of inter-
    national public relations.

    Miss Jewett's remark certain- |
    ly has validity within the Cana-
    dian context; but here again, |
    measured against the interna- |
    tional picture, we must question
    whether it is a decent complaint.

    Even our unemployed - and we

    must feel ashamed for the lack |

    of jobs for those who really seek
    them - enjoy a cash income from
    the Unemployment Insurance
    Fund in one month which ex-
    ceeds what most
    earn in unCanadianly long work-
    ing hours in a whole year.

    In the “have - not”

    99 per cent of the people live, to
    borrow Miss Jewett's words, “‘in
    conditions that should not be tol:
    erated by any decent, thoughtful
    society.

    Canada’s population alone ts
    far too small to be able to solve
    this world - wide problem, But
    Canada's voice should be rais-
    ed, and Canada’s example should
    be set, to urge world - wide com-
    mon sense. Collective security

    | in the long run will be best

    achieved, not by nuclear bombs,
    not by tariff walls, not by sel-
    fish luxury, but by helping the
    underdeveloped nations of the
    world to approximate to the well-
    fed disease - free technically-
    trained standards which even
    Miss Jewett’s unaffluent one-
    third enjoy.

    Lure Of Buried Loot

    National Geographic Society

    Desolate and inhospitable, |
    tiny Cocos Island in the Pacific
    Ocean probably is one of the
    most dug up bits of land any-
    where in the world.

    For more than 150 years, the
    10.4 square-mile Costa Rican
    Island has been wishfully re-
    garded as the site of fabulous
    buried wealth, In that time, the
    island has been probed, scoured
    blasted and bored by countless
    treasure-seekers, the National
    Geographic Society says.

    Estimates of treasure buried
    there by assorted buccaneers,
    privateers, corsairs, and pi-
    rates range from a paltry $20

    million to comfortable $500
    million,

    Not a single doubloon has
    been recovered from the hoards
    of Benito Bonito of the Bloody
    Sword and renegade Captain |
    Shrapnel, or the loot of Lima, |
    | hijacted by one Captain Thomp-
    son, master of the Mary Dear,
    Mary Dyer, or Mary Read, de-
    pending on’ the account one
    | reads.

    | BIG NAMES
    Some famous names have
    been associated with the Cocos
    treasure hunt. In 1904, the se-
    venth Earl Fitzwilliam, then |
    | England's richest peer, landed |
    with a party of nearly 100. The ,
    | late’ Sir’ Malcolm Campbell, au-

    | tomobile and hydroplane speed |

    king, visited in 1925. Ten years
    President Franklin D.
    Roosevelt stopped off at the is- |
    land during a. fishing trip
    abroad the cruiser U.S.S. Hous. |
    ton. With » "go ahe

    ‘and fisd the’ treasure,” boys,

    Roosevelt reportedly | granted
    the erew shore leave.

    Some treasure hunters have
    returned to Cocos despite re-
    peated failures, convinced the
    treasure is

    Tout lovatv ot. Coe ites
    land gold-seckers was August
    Gissler, a German, who lived
    on Cocos with brief
    tions for about 20
    sler_ became a naturalized Cos-
    ta Rican citizen and got him-
    self named governor of the is-
    land. Despite his lengthy stay,
    Gissler accomplished no more
    than other searchers.

    Late in 1962 a party of

    ‘renchmen went to Cocos,
    mainly to look over the place,
    but admittedly enticed by the
    many buried wealth.
    Only one of the party survived
    the capsizing of a boat. He
    spent three harrowing months
    on the lonely islet before he was
    | rescu

    Cocos Island lies at about La-
    titude 5 degrees 32° North Long-
    tude 67 degrees 2 Wee, site

    of Puntar-
    ound. nats Rica, Share are tal
    two landing, places, Chatter
    Bay and Water Bay, Elsewhere

    the
    the
    al-

    cliffs rise abruptly from

    ocean. It rains nearly all
    time. Inland, vegetation is
    most impenetrable,

    An account of the trip to Co-
    cos by William Beebe relates
    with ironic amusement:

    “We imagined the Mary Dear
    and her crew during the weary
    work of disposing boatloads of
    specie and bullion. Anyone who
    has ever scen the place fecls
    exhausted at the mere thought
    of their labors after the booty
    was landed. Of
    would not He it on the beach,
    so they must have transported
    it painfully, a very little at a
    time, up the slippery hillsides
    and across the chasms with
    which the {sland {s rent. And
    no one would envy them the
    task of excavating, in the root-
    filled, stony soil, a hole large
    enough to contain millions of
    dollars worth of precious _me-
    fals."*

    PE. Cleator sums up the
    question of Cocos’ treasure in
    his book Treasure for the Tak-
    ing: “In short, failure to locate
    the treasure has been attribut-
    ed to every conceivable cause |
    except one:
    found.’

    AIDS SURGERY

    VANCOUVER (CP) — The
    general hospital here has in-
    stalled a_new $21,000 heart-lung
    machine that will reduce the

    | cost of ag rhe using it by

    about: is the only one of
    its kind i Weaen Canada, The

    machine takes over the fune-
    tions of the heart and lungs dur- |
    ing open-heart surgery.

    Asians Âą an | oF

    nations, |

    course they |

    ‘hat it may not be |

    Doctor Ponders
    Action To Take
    When Festus Dies

    By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

    A CHICAGO woman no. Io
    er could feel life after the six-
    th month of pregnancy. She
    writes: “The doctor, could not
    detect a heart beat and told me
    the child was dead but to let |
    nature take its course. The ba- |
    by was delivered two months |
    later and I was told that the |
    placenta was too small to_pro-
    vide oxygen and proper nour-
    ishment for the growing fetus.
    In addition, the cord was
    around the neck."

    This misfortune occurs occa-
    sionally and — reading between
    the lines — we sense a doubt |
    about whether the — physician |

    *| handled the problem properly. |

    In our opinion, he acted accord-
    ing to standard practice. He
    “let nature take its course” be- |
    cause interference by inducing
    labor prematurely may lead to |
    infection or other complica: |
    tions. ‘The exceptions are when |
    a mother has a blood disorder |
    or had a cesarean section pre--|
    viously, and it is safer to
    delivered again in this way.
    The wisdom of permitting
    pregnancy to continue after the
    fetus dies is a question that of-
    ten arises. "Many pressures
    are put upon the ol n 'to |
    | do something about it But, as |
    | we said, it is better to rely|
    | pon noninterference and con-
    servative management
    In many instances the preg-
    | nant woman becomes suspicious
    | that not all is well when no
    | movement is felt. These fears |
    | often are confirmed when the
    physician cannot hear the heart |
    tones. But he must be certain |
    because it is a shocking exper-
    fence to be told in the sixth or
    | seventh month of pregnancy
    that the baby has expired.
    a result, the obstetrician is cau-
    tious until there is overwhelm-
    ing evidence of the loss.

    The most frequent cause of
    this type of fetal loss is lack of
    oxygen and nourishment due to
    a disorder of the placenta or
    the umbilical cord. There are |

    | various possibilities. The blood |

    flow from the mother to the |
    placenta or from the placenta
    | to the fetus may be inadequate
    blocked ‘completely. |
    May we suggest to our read-
    er that she take this catastro-
    phe in her stride and try again

    NOTES BY

    THE WAY

    An eccentric is an individual
    whose idiosy: evasion ate differ.
    a ladas yours. — Galt Report-

    Who says there’s not profit to
    be made from idle money? An
    1875 Canadian dime in mint con- |
    dition brought $700 gto a an
    auction here on the
    —Ottawa Joural, |

    The gap between the number
    of world problems arising and
    the number of solutions being |
    found for them is becoming in- |
    creasingly wider. — Sudbury

    ar.

    ‘The man who feels like a hig
    toad in a small puddle at the |
    wheel of his car is a big splash |
    in a small puddle to the pedes,
    trians he passes, — Stratford
    Beacon-Herald.

    The gopher, which used to out. |
    number the Saskatchewanlans
    1,000 to one, has all but disap-
    peared. He can't really be blam-
    ed for leaving Saskatchewan.
    But even if there was a mass
    exodus, it seems that they should
    have turned up somewhere else,

    “Tt used to take only a pair of
    horses, a walking plow and a
    milk cow for a young couple to
    go into the farming business. To- |
    day the investment average:
    $22,000." — CM_ Ferguson, - or |
    Wisconsin University.

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    one wi

    ving by leting ings i
    London Free Pi

    The chap who always
    best foot forward isnt seni
    Jy to stub is toe. — Toronto

    “An increasing number of peo-
    ple are learning to play the
    harp,” says a musician. Prob-
    ably some of them should be
    learning, instead, how to dodge
    the betty gg a pitehfork.—Cha-
    tham News

    “My Dad,” said the swee
    young thing, “is
    takes things apart to see why
    they ant Bo."

    demai
    belier le _ omilton Spec.
    tator,

    We think it’s about time some-
    one took an editorial stand
    against the practice of taking
    pictures of a hippopotamus
    every time he opens his big
    mouth in search of food or air.
    After all, a hippo is sensitive to
    this sort of thing — he doesn't
    want to’ go through life thinking
    that the only reason ‘he's on this
    earth is to provide “gag” shots
    for money - hungry photograph-
    ers. He may not be human, but
    he's got feelings. — Hamilton
    Spectator,

    African Unity Program

    Doug Marshall

    By
    Canadian Press

    The 30 African heads of state |
    meeting in Addis Ababa last
    week conceived an embryonic
    structure that may well evolve
    into a workable form of Af-
    rican unity.

    But Western observers, while
    welcoming this progress, will
    regret that the negative cry of
    anti - colonialism provided the
    main touchstone for concord
    among the nationalist leaders.

    rhe charter, inspired
    mtn by the moderating influ-
    ence of Ethiopia and her 3,000-
    odd years of independence,
    calls for an annual assembly of
    heads of state and a council of
    foreign ministers meeting twice
    a year. The organization will be

    POTATO
    RB. writes: I love potatoes
    but when T have them for din-
    ner I can't sleep at night. Would
    you know the reason why?
    EPL |
    They may be gas producers
    or you may be allergic to or
    have an idiosynerasy to them
    Forget potatoes for six months.
    At the end of this time resume
    eating them if you must, but |
    take it easy.
    TO EACH HIS OWN

    Mrs. L. writes: Our child has
    pinworms. Could he have |
    | Caught ‘them from the dog?
    EPLY
    This 1s doubtful because ani-
    mals, ine luding dogs have |
    worms of their own, On the

    other hand, the pet could carry |
    | pinworm eggs on his hair, es-|
    pecially if he is owned by a fa-
    mily that harbors these para- |
    ites.

    Our Yesterdav’s

    (From the Guardian Files)

    TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO |
    May 29, 1938
    Maurice Higgins, formerly of |
    Kensington, P.E.1. who has_ liv-|
    ed in Kapuscasing, Northern |
    Ontario for the past few years, |
    is leaving by CPR Liner, Nia-
    gara from Vancouver, B.C. to
    Honolulu, Australia and New
    Zealand. He will act in the ca-
    pacity of engineer for a_ pulp |

    and paper company in New|
    Zealand.

    Herman G. Bryan was in{
    Summerside completing ar- |

    rangements for the opening of |
    his new tourist colony at Free-
    land, Lot 11, which will be open
    | to the public on June 22.
    TEN YEARS AGO
    May 29, 1953

    Best possible uses of govern-
    ment grants to promote art in
    the Maritimes were sought as
    the Maritime Art Association
    held its annual convention over
    the weekend at Acadia Univer-
    sity in Wolfville, NS. Art
    groups of all major centres of
    | the three provinces were repre-
    | sented.
    | Dr. Hubert MacNeill, Sum-
    merside, has taken over the
    | medical practice of Dr. Austin
    Delaney, who is leaving to take
    | a two year post graduate course
    in Halifax. Dr. MacNeill is a
    veteran of World War Two and
    | on being discharged from the
    j army took up the study of
    | medicine. He is a graduate of
    | Dalhousle University.

    |

    | will include a commission to ar-

    imah’s:
    | messianic dreams of instant po-}

    a
    secretariat

    On its positive side the Or-
    ganization for African Unity

    bitrate internal territorial -dis-
    putes and committees dealing
    with co-operation on all social,
    economic and defence matters.
    CHECK TO NKRUMAH
    Assuming signators honor the
    principles “solemnly affirmed
    and. declared,” the charter |
    means a victory for the grad:
    ualists and a check to Ghanai
    President Kwame Nkru

    |
    litical unity in Africa.

    The catch is point six in the
    charter — “absolute dedication
    | to the total emancipation of the
    African territories which
    aun eee K

    Staff Writer

    and moderate leader alike,
    means a program of economic
    and diplomatic sanctions
    agsinst pockels of white supre-
    macy that one London corre-
    spondent calls “the last step
    short of war."
    Liberal leaders the world over
    will agree that the days of white
    minority government in Africa
    are numbered and that most
    newly independent nations can
    present a valid case for colo-
    nial neglect,

    OBJECT TO WAR CRY

    The objections, voiced even
    by European sympathizers with
    the African cause, are that the
    current generation of African
    liberators remain preoc:
    the anti-colonial y
    when they should be producing
    Positive economic and social
    measures to repair the past ne-
    glects.

    Preparations for war against
    the republic of South Africa,
    Portugal's Angola territory and
    possibly Southern Rhodesia may
    be one way to forge a United
    States of Africa.

    But it is hardly the kind of
    co-operation that will eradicate
    endemic diseases, cure the il-
    literacy problem or provide a
    better standard of living for the
    average African native.

    The West must hope that Af-
    rica soon realizes its immediate
    unifying factor is social prog-
    ress rather than justified but
    unrewarding bitterness with ra-

    ie enlarged upon by radical |

    cial past and pres-
    ent.

    Kashmir Stalemate

    Christian Science Monitor

    We have reluctantly come to
    the conclusion that ue paneeal
    problem cannot be
    continued American od British
    pressure at this tim

    indian correspondent re-
    ports that the talks, however
    well intentioned, “have done
    more harm than good.” Unless
    there is something known to the
    Western governments which
    does not meet the journalistic
    eye — for much of this effort has
    been shrouded in diplomatic sec-
    recy — it ought to be called o!

    We regret this. It means freez~
    ing an injustice for a time, and
    | trying to live with it. We have
    inclined toward the theory that
    in Kashmir the wishes of the
    people concerned ought to de-

    cide their government in a dis-
    pute which has become so tanj
    Jed with history and national as.
    Pirations as this one, To aba
    don the effort to persuade In-
    dia to permit a plebiscite, or
    some form of transitional inter-
    national regime, will leave In-
    dia in control of the field and
    Pakistan on the outside.

    Yet we see no reasonable al-
    ternative. There is logic in put
    ting strings on economic aid —
    granting it only on the basis of
    mutually satisfactory arrange-
    ments, But to use military aid,
    by contrast, and especially in
    time of emergency, as a meen
    of pressing a country to take
    political step, has grave Umita-
    tions, The United States has
    been on firmer footing when it

    has based its pressure for com-
    promise purely on military
    grounds. There are obvious mi-
    litary implications when it gives
    weapons to two friendly coun-
    tries which are in a state of sus-
    pended war and military ten-
    sion.

    But this military tension can
    surely be kept under control. The
    country which used Americ an
    weapons, given for the defense
    of the independent world against
    Communist aggression, to attack
    neighbor who is sharing in the
    same defense, would be subject
    to the fulf range of sanctions
    and would almost surely fail of
    its objective.

    It is doubly grievous, in view
    of the merits of its case, that
    Pakistan should be caught in
    the grip of this situation and
    be compelled to be the one who
    waits and refrains from force
    while India enjoys the soft airs
    of one of the world’s most beau-
    were it not for
    the cold war Pakistan would be
    incapable of war in any event.
    Patience and a return to peace-
    ful negotiation at the right time

    The z
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