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‘The Strongest Memory u Weaker Th; i the Weaken Ink.‘

THURSDAY, m! 1o, mi The Powers Still Powers

The main purpose served by the Interna-

tional Conference now in progress is in letting

the little fellows air their views but, if 5811

Franglgco produces a flock of economic coun-

cils, a mass of detailed. agreements ‘for ayde- gree of co-operation which is as yet impossible, and a complicated setup of sccrctariats and all the rcst of the foolishness of which Uwllivil “'35 a svllllvtl between the Wars, and not a simple, direct agreement, between the nations of the \\‘Ql’l(_l, led by the Great li’o\vers- to retrain from aggression, and to keep armed forces enouglian gxistgnge to police the world until the happier time ulicn wc can trust each other coinplflcl)‘, then, >fl\'§ the l.t'l1.'r-1\‘c:'iv1t', another \_\iill' is not far away‘. __ n11“. problem is to establish nnlitary and political collaboration between the Great Pow- ers, each backed by its tributary nations. It is to guarantee peace by power. To waste our energies toying with plans of international eco- nomic collaboration which must fail, and which, in fact, can be incredibly dangerous, would be the greatest folly of human history. "Tho Russian attitude at San Francisco is cu- tirelv rezisoiiablc; a case of being prcllarctl t0 make anv concession which does not matter. It is verv difficult to explain how the Russians can be ready to make an international agreement to obtain world peace, and still be l','l\\'llllllg to allow their Allies anything to say‘ about the post-Win settlements of a large section of Cen- tral Etirope. “The Russian attitude does not accord with [hg arrangemcntg, made at Yalta. The .'\lliC(l Control Liomuiissioiis in Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary have no authority at all. The Sov- iet authorities exercise entire control» of every- thing. U. S, planes are not allowed to fly in territory’ which the Russians have occupied. The Soviet Government is seizing machinery and other goods, as reparations, without wait- ing even to consult the Reparations Com- mission, set up at the Yalta Union. Manpower is being moved from Russian-occupied territory No detailed information of any of these processes is available to London or.\\"ash- ingtun. “In general, these Letters have supported the realistic attitude of the Russians to post-War scttlciiicnts. and still hclievcnliat, as compared with the nonsense which is being tttllccd in sonic neitioiis—Canada unfortunately included — the position which the Russians take is sound, and of the greatest value to a lasting peace. We still (‘l(‘l1_\’, as we have denied without ceasing, the last trace of right on the part of the Rus- sians to enslave small neighbouring countries without any reason whatever. It is one thing for the Great Powers to be given a free hand in the policing of the world, but quite another for this to he associated with oppression by one of the Great Powers of small~ free peoples."

Victory In Burma Tool

The capture of Rangoon by the 14th Army, a veteran force of British and Indian troops, gives us the capital and chief seaport of Burma and all its strategical advantages. Burma is as good as lost to the Japanese. Their beaten and shattered troops are in flight, but behind them, from the frontier of India to Mandalay and, Rangoon- they leave many thousands of their dead. ,

The significance of this triumph is apparent from the map. Four years ago the japs poured down through Indo-China-convenieiitly handed over to them by the Vichy French-into obse- quious Siam and on to Malaya, making in- evitable the catastrophe of Singapore. Ran- goon brings appreciably nearer the day of re- tribution. It gives Admiral Mountbatten a. use- ful port, and a landing in force on the narrow Rlalay peninsula would have extremely inter- esting possibilities.

Absent Zombies

What is to happen to Canada's N. R. M. A. force better known as the Home Defence Army’. now that the war in EUFOPC is officially over? The question, says the .\'_vdiicy Port-Record, is not an academic one. The Zombies continue to cost the Canadian taxpayers several million dol- lars a week. Are the 4,000 of them who have been away‘ without leave sitice last'l\'nvcinlzer still m1 the prev-roll? .i\nd if they arc not tlicre. where are they? They have not been heard of, ‘except in General McNaughtonk statistics, for over 5 mouths.

Mr. Claxton, King, and Japan,

Mr. Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Health and Welfare. is reported as telling 1i Montreal audience that with (icrinanyi defeated the Allies “must prcss on now to defeat Japan," and that whether victory in the Pacific takes a short time or a long time "klcpcnds largely’ on the Allies." l

\\'ell. remarks the (Jrhizt-a Janina], if all the Allies “press on to defeat Japan" bv telling their people -— as Prinir Mii-iister King has told nnrs-dhat it is up to them to decide for them- =elves whether or iint they want to fight Japan. -i'ctory in the Pacific will take a long time.

Reporters in San Francisco i|ll(‘1'\.'i€\\'("fl .\lr. ‘(irlg last wcelt about what would happen for

apart from suggesting that celebration of vic- tory should include “floodlighting the Parlia- ment buildings," seemed chiefly concerned in letting us know that he favored “immediate easing” of the liquor situation.

it was on whipping john Bracken and holding on to his own throne.

..-EDITORIAL NOTES-

Buying \i'ictory' Bonds is still quite fashion- able.

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Germany invaded Holland and Belgium this

date 1940.

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It would have taken not a few Nazi bombs to create $1,000,006 damage to Halifax-yet they did it themselves.

w a a How uiuch “over the top" would Halifax have been had the million dollars destruction by her citizens been invested in Victory Bonds?

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Hon. John Bracken will make his first ap- pearance on a Canadian election campaign plat- form in the Forum tomorrow evening. iv m is is

Ascension Day, the Festival commemorating the ascent of Christ into Heaven; forty days after Easter and ten (lays before Whit-Sunday; the Festival is always observed on a Thtirsday, hence Holy Thursday. e a e- a In war men are units in a machine. That is what a complete Socialistic State would .mean, once vou carried it out. . Socialism means transferring into the area of peace the cot1di- tions of war. s- n- u u Councillor MacKinnons death will he felt as a loss to the community and particularly on the City Council, where he was recognized as an energetic and conscientious champion of the people's interests. His genial personality made him popular with all classes, while his practical knowledge and experience were assets of the first importance in dealing with civic matters. i I i

Returning to a more natural existence. Mr. H. V. Aforton recently made the following ob- servation when talking to BBC overseas listen- ers about “Life at Home.” “All the gardening shops and the seed merchants say that there is a perfect passion for flowers in England this

ing else but cabbages and cauliflowers for years are at last beginning to talk 0f roses and carna- tions. There is indeed a nation-wide desire to get things tidied tip and going again. And not only gardens. \\i'e long to get houses repaired, more houses built, and to see industry switch over from war to peace, from destruction to construction."

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From 'l'0ro‘itto Saturday Night’: “john Brack- e" 5W5. a Collection of bpeeches by the Pro- téffhlve Conservative Leader": (Oxford- 35c). With a tieneral Izlection just over the hill this booklet of I34 pages should be welcomed in all parts ,of_ the country. For Mr. Bracken is a personality who has not been in the least con- ccrncrl about the many criticisms that have been showered -upon him by Liberals and all," naturally hostile persons. If he stayed out of Parliament he had solid reasons. Thus he was free to travel from end to end of the country, to present himself before all classes, not as a dictatoiybtit as an inquirer. The range of his policy as here presented is anything but re. actionary. The reforms he propose; n; “o; b11555. and he says the same things in all parts of the country, The speeches are well- blllll, the ideas clearly expressed without orna- ment. They can be read with profit even by those who disagree. _ lt- n a

After last war. in examining the catiscs of their ‘kiwi, one of the conclusions theHHuns came Ito was that the humour of the British Tommy iad agreabdeal to do with the German defeat, In their official report on this the German High Command reproduced a Bruce Bairnsfathcr car- 100". which they said was typical of the Brit- ish soldier's humour. This cartoon shows Bairnsfathefs famous character, Old Bill sllllllg among the ruins of a house recently hif by R large shell. A passing comrade is saying: “Ullo-ivot done that; Bill?" To which Old Bill

ml"?! the iiriiiiary or the secondary committee to that in the House will remain with the peo- ple. They cannot sit in the House but they can Merl more pressure on those they elect than has been done tip to this time. hence the desirability. if not the necessity, of having new blood in Parliament: when members of Parlia- ment end their economy speeches out m1 the litistiiigs nnd practice and encourage "cnnniiiy svheii doing their legislative work —— then the

Vaiiitdians on and after V-Ii Day. Mr. King,

sorely burdened taxpayers may get a break

In other words-and. to state the position mm n; bIuntly—Mr. King's mind was not on whipping "°°4 the laps and knocking l-llrohito off his throne: 1t i;

year. People who have been talking about hoth- ls

N°t°‘B_XZ7'¢_W“-l’ PUBLIC FORUM.

Ilonio heafln; _ln postwar sh may come froru- hot-water ptpea ' den behind cast-tron rep

baseboard: a match the woodwork 1n the room.

a type the new radtmt heating, and 1n tests seems satia- factory.

nuimi ' T0 ISLAND i au-ruoaass

Bun-When our Bland Porters Maud Mon

Al flrlt [lance the lnlmll flrula 1t not easy to believe that these horror pictures from ny are

mu w-tii. are of Lucy isomers. mud this earth and the vfet were IWIY a f"! years I00 quite l and are fellow human beings. That. l"! P001118 WWII“ lll hi! 0M1‘- ls the awful truth which t t; gen- lottetown Guardfan mourning her eratlon ought never m forget. - iiliiiwis- There were none. it mm- l-lamllton Spectator. ed to mo, that mentioned the per- petuity of that tmmortal. a1 lug sptrtt. 8o I mow offer one iihfc cams townie 1:131! tugehand vying seems req a p n; n 1n which to appear.

SONG IMMORTAL (To LM-M.) Ber splrlt ll released from earthly bondage, yet She lingers stt l 1n her beloved Isle; A new sprlngfls breathless beauty,

leaf and flower be-set, Meets everywlhere her soft, remem- e. -

Although the loyal Army Medl- cal Corps has to deal with a much greater proportion of what 1n the last war would have been described as desperate wounds, to- day ntne out. of every ten wound- ed brought wlthln reach of surgical treatment were saved. Much of thfa improvement 1s uacrbed to inoblle dressing statlons 1mmed1- ately behtnd the lines, to the use of _pen1cl1l1n and of blood trans- fusion.--Frederlctnn Gleaner.

The Yorkslnlr-z-‘Fosl fella of I. man who, havlng had his wallet stolen 1n a Scottlsh town, inserted

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No red land lined wtth dark, coni- the notice 1n the lost and found gem"; "c", column of the local paper: ‘The Nmmmy

person who stole a wallet 1n _ St. esterday aftemoon was re- cogn zed. Will he please return 1t to—" The next day the same col- umn contalned this re ly: "If the loser of t/he wallet cals at. the ad- dress of the recognized person his property will be restored to hlmli

The bl‘ black-mnrlteteers are now- buying real estate right and left, says Isl-IR. lathe New York

green of blmh all slen-

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No sand-dune buklnq 1n the v1v1d seas ‘

But see her gazing raptly with d0- llzht.

The tossing gulls that swlrl sgatnst the Wind's great, beat

And singing birds whose sweat notes charm the lanes,

Are hushed to hear above their

song, cadence sweet Times Magazine. An honest cltl- He; singing splrlvs now immortal zen has a property worth. say. $10,- m-alm, 000. Along comes n black-market. operator ln roast. beef and buys the 1 3m, 31,-, em,

property for $25,000, the sale ls re- corded at $10,000 and everybody conccnied 1s ha y except. the Bur- eau of Interns Revenue, Black- marketeers get tlred of lugging around rolls of thousand-dollar bllls as thick as fence posts. They just have to put the stuff some- where.

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Georgetown, P.E.l.

Berlin Today

(John Groth. veteran 37-year-old artist and war correspondent. wrote this sto after it vlslt to

-—— rv Somewhat discouraging com- Berlin the day 1t fell. l-le had lut ments on the opportunities for a vlslted Berlin 1n 1934, when Hit-

Brltlsh market for Canadian farm ler staged his Nszl blood purge.)

products have come from Mr.

James Turner, President of the By JOHN GBOTII National Farmers’ Union of Eng- (Copyright. 1945. By The land and Wales. now on a tour of oclated Press)

Canada. He says that agricultur-

lsts of the Old Land will maintain Hitler‘; legacy ._ the broken,

much of their increased production after the war ends, and thus there will be less call for imports from the Dominlons. Actually, of course, this can have but; s. inlnor effect on our agriculture. Britain has

smoking chaos of Berlin-sprawl: under the vlvid banners of the Red Army today. German tears and hunger mark the end of the Nazi Empire. .

We entered the once-arrogant tremendousl increased her r -

ductlon an some of that groiiva capim lqfsolhe Euiropnn ntew or. she will hold. She can never, liow- d" “l ' p'm" n " d“ y h”

mixed 1n with trucks of a Rus-

ever, be self-supporting. and there SID“ convoy returning from me west

good reason to believe that Mr. Turner is even a llt-tle aver-optim- lstlc_ about: maintenance of pro- duction. The soll over there ls being terrlfically overworked, and his cannot go w. indefinitely. Canadian farmers should not, let this hint deter them from hold- ing to their plans for top produc- There will always he port market for high uallly footl- sl fs, and we should iold a place 1n the forefront of the suppliers.- Wlndsor Dally Star.

Russian storm troops were crush- ing s.s. remnants 1n the last hour of battle tn the shell-torn waste of the Tlergarten.

For miles around that tiny poc- ket of resistance stretched lifeless mounds of debris of what had been a city of 4,000,000. Templemf alrdrome. once the hub of a continent's airways, was a skeleton o1’ hangars and ter- mlnnl buildings. with gray-stringed planes of the Luftwaffe scattrre! beyond 1n drooping postures like wounded bfrdus. a‘

.- . fi- I liarl to inquire of a German clviltan in order to identify Belle Alliance Platz. which I once knew well. with the streets radiating from 1t unrecognizable as streets. They ivere heaps of almost moun- tainous rubble. German women. children and old men were cleaning paths under the guard of Russian" tommy-gun- ners aigl rlflemen. ‘Ilhietreciliéeuno young etimn men e . ans mil."tiilz"z.ii.tiépaez...liz W you» l» wt- to preference, are: 1, hard maple; Y ‘m - 2, soft maple, red pine, Norway Three Red “W” new “l m“ pine; 3, red oak; 4_ Auslrlan ppm seat of Government for the Reich Th, property owner Wm prowl-e that. Hitler predicted would last the trees, plant and care for them, limo Yeafl- A mammlllh buck and for each tree 1n good condition Whit! PTIOWBPIPII 0f PNIIIIBL at the end 0t two years the pro- Stalin had been him: by his proufl perty owner will be paid s2. The troops on one of the chancellarys ype of trees and their locations Walls- A deflltled 916W" 0! HMO? are planned not to interfere with could still be seen. sewers and sidewalks. There 1s no Our Soviet Allies seemed elated better way to beautify a town or about the fut that Allied bombers clty than to have the streets 11n- had wrought such great destruc- sd with lreei- Battle's plan of tlon upon Berlin before the Red developing trees 1n all parts of the Anny’; assault. town and replacing unsatisfactory

The town of Barrie has adopted a novel tree program that should be watched wlth interest by other towns and cities. It will be car- ried out over 25 years with the object of placing trees oii all streets rind ré lacing undesirable trees which s oulct removed. Beginning this year Barrie will plant 150 shade trees a year - 25 in each of the slx wards. The project is estimated to cost. $300 a year and will be carried out un- der the supervision of the Board of Works In co-uperatlon with the

earliest article of export. psu Brasll, a tree from Whose heartwood a valuable crimson dye was extracted.

Turntng left into Unter Linden I looked ftrst for the horses drawing a chariot atop the Brandenburg gate. All but one of the horses were flat, as tho

warning from

Mall sums up thesttuatlm

OF THE LOAN-

llatlonal War Fiiiance Gomiiiittee

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SAILING SCHEDULE

Leave Wood Illanda Leave Carlbon Except that, on authority of the

and l p.111. other crossings wlll not carry the

October lat to Leave Wood Islands Leave Caribou

6 I went to the Lustgartem-ptasslug

many 88's, some of whlch were 1n- tact, and several burned-out Rus- sian and German tanks. I was not able to recognize any of the bulld-

86.

Japan Next (a; Dewitt, Mike-nus, Aseoclatod Praia wll’ analyst)

aennanys capltulatlon will re-

lesse a tornado of mllltary POW" Bill‘ —Japan.

the remIIHQBB Wllfld Enemy

tie d" ecelved stern imp“ yes r lggthr Prime Minis- ter Churchlll and President- Tflllllllll

l m t which will rend lier iintil seh: sliigenders unconditionally. Mr. significant note. He held uD l0 m; Japanese people the eilllllllllles ° tsspttulatton, and concluded is state- ment to the press wit-h thl!

Truman, however. lllieflled l

"It. (unconditional surrender!

t ionzuis the New“ 215$"; 38d giliiffertng ol the Jill" anses 1n the vatn hop? l’!

victory;

"Unconditional surrender d0“

th termlnatlon or 6n; ilisileitrfieeaiii clatter: Japanese pwDIQ-

Many looked on thLs statement

M making it ~eas1er for the Jaw‘ to quit their sulclde wart; thought 1t lent sum» 0 ~ o; Jmpgnggg pgflce overtures.

It's lee l1 l fififidfihlv: i150 so cautiously. ‘Hie

Japanese leaders

for us to consider of an early slll"

already kllW

they're beaten. and on this basis

l t, might lhtec mtgrfennffliliifilliti: tifiullig conflict a‘; me matter of horse-sense.

However. we shall be toollsh ll

l th load of the Al- lltlldliféli, fcbiinomande. Wllllll m" m‘ ognlu this possibility tnlrilY doesn't "m"

l. fllillllltwlvsr. which imam “h”

but most cer- lt as s M”: L, $01M right, ahead wltl.

thin“ mntmplggg, invasion o‘

Jlllln- ' r ...e*..i'l.a°°'aziui.z."siii.

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l d . 3., nese leader: varieties looks like a sensible, econ- nniidheiiveiiglgmdthf‘; aarsmsuclgiggdeg’: icnllgie “ml; qtlhieelr 1:21:91! l" min.“ omlcal way of supervising and Mm,- ollm-g, however, exhailsted t“ “slung” go rgallze-that Gai- llllldlllle W‘ Plllllllllll- — 0W8" by 1on3 hours of battle, dozed 1n 13$, m, l»... the m1 outer de- slllllld Bllll-Tlml- their vellum parked along the ‘emf o, My“, am. flirsérvhlalltgf,

commnciar, oiuom Ilfljgf,‘ cgluld arisen gum. “glare ge-liii-tmellxpwm‘ Egqtgahefohmi; Brazll Bets its name from tts w“ b0 a i-iin iii +° w f of the 11in»: Rec

GASSY Slllldllill

U! a shell had hlt, them. To the left, of the gate the hotel Adlon was full of holes. like s. Bwlas cheese.

t i1 and made sketches of tho 513i“... c1v111ana cleanui; ll! tho roe .

some guards were women. All traffic corners had amartly-unl- formed women with flags dtrecttn; ‘tfiattie. were drzansegtltn mu, ouu. s very a y and wore bet-eh. They cal-HI:

llltl. lt rented out of lace for hem to be with um, were not all friendly ward rman women.

‘We Washer]! Unter making; . very won ru . alibi an Manhunt d tho all has