+ That Causeway Report

| 6 Addressing a Liberal convention here on Thursday evening, Premier Matheson is quoted as saying that

} he had told Prime Minister Diefen- beker last Apri] that the feasibility ef building a causeway across North- umberland Strait had been assured before the election of June 10, 1957, but apparently this report cannot be found at Ottawa. He implied, very Birongly, that it was being held up for political purposes, to be used | im the next provincial election cam- paign.

We do not know what political designs the Diefenbaker Government has on the causeway project, or what plans Premier Matheson has for off- setting them when he goes to the eountry. One thing likely is that there

) will be a good deal of partisan baByg_)

_ hoe on both sides, and that neither _ the causeway project, nor ferry trans- » portation, nor hospital insurance, nor * anything remotely resembling a po- _ litical issue will escape the fate of being banged around like an old tin ' ean. But we are curious about the + Premier’s statement for another rea- = ona. | If the causeway’s feasibility had ' been assured in a report presented ~te the Liberal Government. before the general election of 1957, why } did Prime Minister St. Laurent hedge om the subject when he spoke here @uring the campaign? His remarks “were very brief and very tentative. “if the Government,” he said, “is satisfied with the: feasibility of the @nuseway and if it can be shown thet ultimately it will put back into the national economy more than it would take out in transportation @harges, then we will deal with it ‘m we dealt with the Canso cause- way.” - of his supporters at that Mime had any more light to throw @a the matter. This newspaper made seeveral efforts to obtain information ffom official sources, and was block- wed at every turn. On one occasion, |, shortly before the 1957 election, we | -"vere cautioned from Ottawa that we ' were editorializing too optimistically about the project, and that the pre- “liminary rock: borings, on which we based our surmises, were only part @f am extensive survey which would Rave to be carried on, into many aspects of the problem, before defin- ite conclusions could be reached. That was the situation when the @lection was called. It was the at- titude taken by tke Liberal candi-

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doeal politicians who supportéd them> “¥f they had any assurance to give | about the causeway’s “feasibility” |. other than the mere physical pos- sibility of constructing it—which no ‘one disputed—why didn’t they pro- | claim the giad news? It might have saved them a seat. —

Are we asked to believe that the Liberals would not do a thing like | that? That the report was kept a close secret because it might unduly influence-the electorate in favor of | the Liberal Government? The elec-

‘tors, goodness knows, can be gulli-

ble enough; but we question wheth-

er a single one of them, from the * most juvenile -to the’ most senile, «; would be capable of swallowing such “an alibi.

== Seaway Prospects +~ The meeting yesterday of Queen \lizabeth and President Eisenhow- ' @r to open the St. Lawrence Sea- way marked the achievement of a >" ¥enture in international co-operation with few historical parallels. Noting this fact in its June business review, the Bank of Montreal presents an | excellent account of the Seaway - and—what is particularly interest- ing-—its possible future. One of the longest ship channels : in the world, the Seaway, it says, can -also lay claim to the more dubious distinction of being the most ex-- pensive. Its limiting depth of 27 feet makes it the eighth deepest in world, equal to the Chesapeake- “ canal, but 14 feet shallow- ee than the Panama. The. postwar

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ly. The larger ports along the Great Lakes—Toronto, Hamilton, Cleveland and Chicago for example—have been taking positive steps to attract re- gular freight services and competition will continue to be keen for several seasons. : Although the immediate impact of the Seaway is not proving to be ionary as its early p ts envisaged, it, is opening a

orth American continent. Past ex- perience has shown that any major new trahsport link which contributes to further economic growth tends to benefit all in the long run.

Tail Wagging The Dog

A great furore has been raised about a number of CBC employes who resigned because, as they put

it, “clandestine political influence” °

caused CBC to cancel a program. The program has since been restor- ed but the heated argument goes on. Regardless of the merits of the case against the organization for yielding to political pressure, what has this question of policy to do with its em- poyes?

We have been wondering ‘about this and about the implications in- volved in employes talking as though, in e@ way, they were trustees of CBC icy, responsible for its in- dependence. We find the Ottawa Journal wondering about it too, and commenting in terms which we take the liberty to quote.

The guardians of the CBC’s in- dependence, and its only ones, are its managers and directors. If CBC employes are to start. taking, that po-- sition, they are misunderstanding their place, arrogating to themselves a role they do not possess and can- not be permitted to possess. “One trouble with the CBC, it may be,” says The Journal, “is that there has grown up within the organization too many little principalities, too many petty chiefs or kings running their own kingdoms. If so, the sooner such a situation is ended the better it will be for the CBC. There has been too much in this country already of

-g@dministrators imagining that they

are policy makers.”

EDITORIAL NOTES

‘The Newfoundland finance minis- ter, Mr. Spencer, predicts a whop- ping budget surplus for the present fiscal year, if only. “Ottawa pays what is due us.” Let’s hope that our sister Island Province is not in for ‘another disappointment.

‘The Bank of Canada interest rate this week declined to 5.36° percent aiter three straight weekly increases. The rate compares with 5.4 last week and 5.33 the week previous. The all-time low of 1.12 percent was set last August 2. ;

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Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is not—like Churchilli—an inspired phrase-maker, but he coined a good one in commenting on East-West re- lations at Geneva. They have advanc- ed in six months, he said, “from an atmosphere of ultimatum to an at- atmosphere of negotiation.” He ex- pressed hope that this “great gain” would lead to a summit conference.

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An announcement of much military interest—that on re-equipping the R.C.A.F. air division in Europe—will likely be made in the House of Com- mons next week. Defense Minister Pearkes indicated as much on Thurs- day, but gave no clue as the plane that will be provided. Some 200 ‘planes for eight squadrons now us- ing Sabre jets are to be bought from the United States

_enough.

KEY TO A CONTINENT

Geneva Reassessment

By W.N. Ewer United Kingdom Information Service

The Four Power meeting of Foreign Ministers has after six weeks decided to have a ‘“‘recess”’ of three weeks. The Ministers meet again in Geneva on July 13. They will try then once more to reach some sort of agreement about Germany—or at any rate about Berlin. What is the balan- Ce sheet at the end of six weeks talk? Not, I am afraid, very fav- ourable. There is so far little or no sign of any approach to agree- ment dn fundamental issues.

The fuadamental issue is simp- le. It is the continued presence of the troops of the Western Allies in Western Berlin. The Russians insist that this must be ended. In the last session before the form- al adjournment Mr. Gromyko of- fered what he seems to have re-

garded as a ion, It is that the Soviet Uni ared to set a “time ation rer

gime’: in Berlin. But the differ- ence ig not significant. The point ig that the Soviet Government sill insists that the Western Pow- ers shall agree to renounce their “occupation rights’’.

And that the Western Powers eannot do. Not so much because these are—as in fact they are— legal rights, but because to ab- andon them would be to abandon their responsibility for maintain- ing the freedom of the people of West Berlin.

“OCCUPATION” DESIRED

It is only in the narrowest leg- alistic sense that the presence ot Allied troops is “occupation’’. In fact that presence is ardently de- sired by the two and half million

West Berliners who regard i as essential for the protection and safeguarding of their freedom and security. They have made that entirely clear in free elec- toins. This then is something 02 which the “‘west’’ cannot yield. But short of that they have géne to the limit in an effort to meet Soviet demands for a change in the existing situation in Berlin.

The Russians have suggested that the presence of Allied troops in Berlin i some kind of military,.menace.to the East Ger- man Communist regime—even to | the Soviet Union itself. It seems 'a little absurd. But the Western Powers are prepared to make an undertaking neither to increase the number of their troops nor to equip them with atomic weapons.

circumstances permitted they might be prepared to reduce them somewhat.

The Russians have alleged that age, propaganda and all sorts of West Berlin is the centre of espion other “subversive activities” dir- ected against the German Dem- ocratic Republic, The Westera Powers, without accepting these allegations and with the edge that these activities are in fact wide-spread in East Berlin, | ae ready to agree measures to avoid any undesirable activites in either part of the city—wita the obvious proviso that any such measures must be “consistent | with fundamental rights and lib- erties’’. : |4 “MODUS VIVENDI” | It seems to me a reasonable

British Labor Party Split

By Ed

Simon

Canadian Press Staff Writer

The principle of the non - elear club is easy to dismiss on the grounds that its aims are un- likely to be fulfilled.

Its chief proponents, Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan, are quick to agree with its critics that Gen. de Gaulle probably will not be swayed in his determina- tion te give France a nuclear weapon by a British decision to renounce it.

Bevan’s reply is to point to the dangers arising from an increase in the number of nuclear powers, the growing atmospheric pollution of their tests and the mounting

nu-; Nasser or the intransigence of

any one of a dozen other gov- ernment leaders could thwart the

in the next zeneral election that is required to put it into practice.

A new set of exotic place names has been added to the roil of United States diplomatic out-

| posts in the last two years—Con-

akry, Yaounde, Lome, Kampala, Kaduna, Abidjan, and Mogadis-

possibility of atomic war.

“That. is the situation that fs | certain to happen unless states- | men do something about it,” Bevan argues. “At least we have the obligation to try.”

LABOR SPLIT

The force of the argument can- not be entirely nullified by the knowledge of the split within. the British Labor party over nuclear disarmament that preceded the unveiling of its new policy.

Short of the distant prospect of an over-all international agree- ment, no plans currently exist to prevent the acquisition of nu- clear weapons by any power with the will, the financial resources and the scientifie ‘knowledge to produce them.

Implicit in Labor’s plan is the acknowledgment of the H-bomb's deterrent value. But it is ac- companied by the implication that its possession by the United States and Russia is deterrence

If Gaitskell and Bevan are idealistic in believing that they ean convince de Gaulel of this view by voluntarily taking Britain out of the nuclear race, they have a better case than the un- conditional advocates of ‘unl- lateral nuclear disarmament, who can point only to “moral leader- ship’ to justify their course. WANT RECIPROCITY

Once renounced, the bomb can not easily be unrenounced. La- bor’s new policy seeks some as- surance that the st taken without reci fits.

The obduracy of de Gaulle. the

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cio. \ They are capitals of African na- tions that have achieved or are in the process of achieving inde- pendence, the National Geogra- phic Society says. Most of them offer rugged duty for Americ- cans.

Foreign Service officers in these and other new African countries will find walking shorie more practical than the traditional striped pants. The State Depart- ment hopes to supply its dip- lomats with heavy-duty trucks that can be converted into sleep- ing quarters on field trips.

An umbrella also would be a useful item of issue for a diplo- mat assigend to the West Afri- can coastal city of Conakry, cap- ital of Guinea. It, gets an aver- age of 169 inches of rain a year. In July, the average relative hu- midity ranges from % to 92 per cent. April temperatures average 90 degrees.

A foreign Service man station-

lands to visit the Bamileke tribe. The tribesmen belong to masked secret societies, honor the skuils of their deal, examine spiders to predict the future, and are suc- cessful coffee planters and busi- nessmen.

Lome, capital :of Tog (once French Togoland), is a trim sea- side city that resembles a resort

ambitions of Egypt's President

They have also indicated that tf.

plan, assuming the Labor victory

“blueprint’’ for an interim agree- ment which, leaving fundament- ais aside for a moment, would provide a-sort of ‘“‘modus vivendi which would go a long way te meet Soviet complaints about the existing state of affairs. Details would have to be worked out— and might be difficult to work out. But there is something on which in outline surely the Min- isters without any commitment about principles could have agreed.

But Soviet reaction has been, to say_the least of it, curious. These proposals were put to Mr. Gromyko on June 16. Three days later in the last private session on June 19 he still completely ignored them. But on that same day in Moscow Mr. Khrushchev m a speech in which he re-

and unacceptable’.

This ie something which with fairly long experience I have never known in any negotiation.

XOne side has made proposals

which even if not acceptable as they stand surely go so far to meet the other side as to be a possible basis for detailed discue-

sion. The Foreign Ministers reas- semble on July 13 after the dead- hich they adjourned for

three recess. But it may be

knowl- | that Guring these last three weeks

there will be, either through dip- lomatic channels “or through eome sort of exchanges at higher levels. something that can be done which will make the ~ec- ond meeting more productive ‘than the first. In any case there will, as the Western Ministers statement suggests, be an ‘‘op- portunity” for both sides te re- consider their positions.

But “the obligation te try’ is bound to increase in its appeal

attempt to meet it.

The plan's dubious benefits will be considerably increased if Its critics are encouraged to explore the possibilities of producing a more acceptable substitute.

New U.S. Diplomatic Posts

National Geographie Society

sighte. Sacred trees, or rocos, are decorated with multi-coior- ed cloth and garlands of leaves. Kampala, capital of Uganda in British East Africa, is built on seven hills and laid out with oroad streets and open paces. Uganda is home of both pygmy tribes and the seven-foot Bahi- mas. BM is notable for huge red anthills, often 12 to 15 feet high. lining many of its roads; and the legetidary Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzori Range) named by Ptolemy of Alexandria, the an- cient geographer and astronomer. Some 12 million Moslems are the largest population bloc of Northern Nigeria, whose capitai ie Kaduna. The country includes the relatively unproductive ‘‘Mid- die Beit.”’ plagued by the tsetse fly, and the northern “Nigerian Sudan,”” where peanuts are the main crop and herds of caitle with horng longer than Texas longhorns roam. One of the most modern of the new outposts is Abidjan, capi- tal

suggest Paris and gleaming-white Lhotels, apartments, and super - markets recall Miami Beach.. Iv- ory Coast forests, however, still shelter witch doctors and per- haps cannibels. -

Across the continent on the scorched “horn’’ of East Afri- ca between the Indian‘Ocean and the desert is Mogadiscio, capital of Somalia. Most ocean-going ships cannot get around the reef in Mogadiscio’s harbor. Passeng- ers are lowered in baskets to smaiier craft.

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Sometimes there may be noth- ing left but hope. Don't lose it. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. A.B.: Can you give me some advice on how to help a ten-year-old child break the ha- | bit of thumb-cucking?

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| HERITAGE FROM SCOTLAND ther had,

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Through sword-crossed years of grief her pace

Never faltered. With lilting grace.

She quoted the poems of Robert Burns

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From parables, psalms, and poet- ry.

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| in the Christian Science Monitor

OUR YESTERDAYS (From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (June 27, 1934)

The construction work which has been in progress at the Ken- sington Rifle Range for the past month has been completed. The butts which had fallen into a state of disrepair have been re- stored. Targets were reconstruc- ted and a considerable amount of work was done on the firing poihts.

chased the lovely property 6f Sen- ator .Creelman MacArthur on thur and the misses MacArthur will take up residence in their new house on Green Street which the Senator purchased last fall from Mr. G.R. MacQuarrie.

TEN YEARS AGO (June 27, 1949)

the new president of the Char- lottetown Rotary Club at their meeting yesterday at which the retiring officers presented their reports for the year. The incom- ing secretary is Rotarian O.R. Simon. The retiring president, D.M. McGuire, presented a re- port of the activilies of the past year. ’

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because he paid less; and each credited his profit to his own shrewdness. Besides, in those days the models didn’t change from year to year; #o the owner counted his gains in the enhanced value he was able to collect.— Toronto Globe and Mail

ANNOUNCEMENT Greendal Appointment

Deep was the wisdom my mo-|

She made parables meaningful. |

And ever her heart marched to

Mr. Charles MacGregor

The Greendal Co. Ltd., 144-150 Great George Street in Charlottetown wish to announce the appointment of Mr. Charles MacGregor ag Assist- ant Manager of their Men‘s Store. Mr. MacGregor brings to the Greendal Co. many years of extensive experience in haberdashery and men’s clothing.

He welcomes to the store all his many friends and associates and invites them to pay him a visit.

Mr. George M. Muttart of Sin- | clair and Stewarts Ltd., has pur- |

Rotarian W.R. LePage became |

Signed:

The Greendal Co. Ltd.

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