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Ties And Tensions

A correspomleat of the Christian Science Monitor has done a good services to his readers, at this time, by emphasizing the. friendly rela- tions that have existed between Washington and Ottawa ever a per- iod of years, and the fact that for every “unfortunate” development in which sharp controversy arises, there are many more useful diplo- matic exchanges. For example, at the regular meetings of the tWo stand- ing international Cabinet commit- tees on trade and defense, and the twice-a-y e a r Congress-Parliament Conference.

The US. shares mech- w i t n

government

more bilateral consultat've anisms with Canada than any other nation in the world. and this technique of friendly inter- change is being developed all th e time. Over the years the problems usually fall into the category of “quiet diplomacy." It is seldom that anything as sharp as the inter- change over nuclear warheads comes to pass. And in this connec- tion, it is significant that the US. state department is getting much more criticism for its handling of this controversy from its own news- papers than from the Canadian press.

Each nation, It is emphasized, is the other’s best customer. This brings other considerations in its wake. Recently Canada had to grap- ple with a serious balance-of—pay- merits condition. The United States and others pitched in to hand over close to $1,000 million to fill the gap. Washington authorities have since been warm in their praise of the re- covery Canada has been making economically.

The United States is concerned with Canadian surcharges on some American products, a polite word for tariffs. The largest category of sur- charges on top of duties is a 5 per cent "tariff". Last fall Canada agreed to cut back this surcharge on one-sixth of the American trade items.

Canadian Oil exports into the

United States now may be facing American action, and we can expect some irritation over this issue on both sides. It is hoped to avoid a reassessment of the American pol- icy of no limitation on Canadian oil sales, but it may be at the cost of cutting down on Canadian overland oil shipments. ' There remains a whole complex of other programs. The most prom- inent'ie the division of the water resources of the Columbia River in the Northwest. Others will get the spotlight from time to time. On the whole, however, Washington sees its relations with Canada as “good. ex- pending, deepening.” The "problem" list is continually changing; the basic feeling of good neighborliness Is not.

. Hard To Understand

‘ The most biting comment on General de Gaulle’s efforts in keep- ing Britain out of the European Common Market has come from Belgium's distinguished foreign min- ister, Paul-Henri Speak. He says that the graves of British soldiers in the Common Market countries as a result” of tWo world wars are proof that Britain belongs to Eur- ope whatever dc Gwllc says. But another comment—this time from Jinn Boston of the New York cuts close to the bone. “De Gsulle," says Boston, "cannot wee the Anglo-Saxons for the muttth have done him." .

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Recalled in this connection is the story Winston Churchill told in his book “Their Finest. Hour.” It; was June. 1940, when the Nail hordes were sweeping into France. The French cabinet was consider- ing s u r r e n d e r. De Gaulle, Jean Monnet and other Frenchmen were in consultation in London with the British cabinet in an effort to find a way to convince the French that instead of surrendering they should move their fleet to North Africa and continue the war. To strengthen French determination they drafted a Declaration of Union. It said this in part:

“The two governments declare that France and Great Britain shall no longer be two nations. but one Franco-British Union. The constitu- tion of the Union will provide for joint orga us of defense, foreign, financial and economic policies. Every citizen of France will enjoy immediately citizenship of Great Britain; every British subject will beCome a citizen of France. . ."

Here was a complete merger, seriously proposed and openly of- fered. De (iaulle, reports Churchill, “read it with an air of unwontevl enthusiasm. and. as soon as contact with Bordeaux could be obtained, began to read it" to the French cabinet. But it was too late. Sur- render was already in the homes of the Frenchmen in control. De Ganlle made a quick trip to France to try to convince his colleagues of the im- portance of the union and. failing, returned to England to carry on the French fight there.

And a valiant fight he made of it. with British help. till victory was achieved. But isn't it tragic that a man of such heroic stature should be so stubborn in his prejudices!

Should Be Amended

Among the problems our abortive. last. Parliament failed to grapple with was the Election Act, and the extravagances involved in our fed- eral electoral system. Reference to this subject is made by the Toronto Globe and Mail, which points out that last year’s federal contest cost the taxpayers about $10,500,000. Now they will have to go through the wringer again, with another two months of uncertainty involved in the campaign. ~

Last year, 67,000 enumerators went on their rounds to list an estimated 9,800,000 voters. For this they received a basic allowance of .25. plus 10 cents for each name properly registered. Added to the money paid to them is the money spent. on other election purposes—— printing. organization, returning of- ficers, and so on.

The cost of enumeration is one important argument for a perma- nent voters‘ list. There are others. Last year, there were several irreg- ularities. Persons who had no right to vote were listed. Officials cou- ceded that it was not always pos- sible to train the enumerators pro- perly. The difficulty of training (plus the incentive that the remun- eration system places on getting as many names on the lists as possible) constitutes a serious weakness.

A permanent voiers' list would go a long way toward solving the problem. A change to such a sys- tem would probably permit a con- siderable reduction in the length of election campaigns. There would still, of course, be the cost of keep- ing the list up to date, and a record of the people who move away would be necessary. But it seems evident that the country could save a lot of money if the warring factions in the last Parliament had gotten to- gether on this issue. Perhaps the next Parliament will do better, and put an end. once and for all, to the wasteful features of the system that elects it.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Provincial Liberal Leader Mathe- son expects defeat of the Conserva- tive federal candidates in Queens at the polls on April 8, and Prem- ier Shaw ridicules the idea. Now if it were the other way about, that. would really be news!

Seven aspiring candidates are said to be seeking the Liberal nom- ination for Prince in the federal election. If we could only divert some of this enthusiasm to our municipal electoral contests through- out the Province, it would solve a lot of problems.

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OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson That Historic Day In Parliament

The historic Fifth of February i

began for the morning newscast.

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most Ottawans with: '. cus upon which the life of the

radio station predicted that, ra- i

titer than permit the opposition parties to defeat his government on a vote, might proclaim the dissolution of Parliament.

"Daddy." asked the 12- year- old daughter of a Top Brasshat now working here, “do you real- ly think that Mr. Diefcnbaker will disillusion Parliament?"

the Prime. Ministerl

' corridors while M.Ps

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The answer perhaps lay in the I

historic and largely unrecorded events later in that hectic day of crowds, emotion and sense- tions, the like of which this staid building has never seen. Newsmen camped outside the offices of key politicians to note the comings and goings, and to try to fit them into a pattern of evolution. A local radio station announced in frequent news flashes that Canada had a new

prime minister. The New Demo- cratic Party held a midday cau-

government depended, but broke up in agreed disagree- ment. Rumours of dissension within the Conservative Party

echoed along Parliament‘s long 5

of other parties anxiously watched fo r signs of it. Which Ministers ap-

plauded the Prime M i n i stcr .

when he spoke in and which Ministers sat on their hands?"

WILL STORY BE TOLD?

That speculation all came to little at the time. But politicians expressed lief that nothing except a real fire could have caused all that smoke. I

One of the deplorable aspects of our parliament is the nndcm- ocratic tradition wrongly foisted

the House?, I

or. W.L. Mackenzie King. lie. In- troduced the unworthy Canad- ian form 0 “party solidarity"

i which deprives MP5 of their :right to exercise ‘ dual

their indivi- converts

judgmcnt. and them into “performing seals compelled always to follow their leader when voting.

I remember, during the latter years of the Libera rc- gime. when a sensation w a 5 caused by the late and liked Jack Machngall, Liberal MP. from Vancouver. who once cast a vote against his party leader. This was his right: this was his dutv if his conscience so dictat-

- edfbut to his leader and his col- ‘ leagues it was heresy.

r upon it by the late Liberal lead- ‘

Revolt In Old Baghdad

By Carman Cumming Canadian Press Staff Writer

There has been lilile mourn-5

ing over the gory Abdel Karim K a s s e m. The Iraqi dictator-premier, down by many of the same men who put him in power 4": years ago. had few allies and fewer friends.

Nevertheless the revolt in an- cient Baghdad—a city well ex- perienced in intrigue and vio- lent-9413s given good cause for nervousness to several of Iraq's neighbors.

It is still too early to say with

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certainty what political direc-‘

tion (h e revolutionary com- mand ‘will take. But its first statements promise a socialist, anti - Communist government. non-aligned but against “imper. allsm" and strongly in favor of a return to friendship with Pres- ident Nasser of the United Arab Republic. BOOST FOR NASSER

The revolt has delighted Nas- ser, removing a potent rival for Arab leadership at a time when his prestige already had been strengthened by the U.A.R.'s

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Israel, which had felt less pres- sure as the Arab nations quar- relled among themselves.

Western countries have cau- tiously welcomed the end 0 Kassem‘s rule. They have had him since he pulled Iraq out of the Baghdad pact—now the Central Treaty Organization —— and turned to Moscow for arms and financial assistance.

Relations with the US. and Britain were particularly tense in the last days of the Kassem regime as he accused the two countries of stirring up rebel- lion against him.

BANNED COMMUNISTS

Ironically, the revolution may cause little regret even In the Communist world. Kasscm had

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‘ en orator from Nanaimo, : won rousing Conservative

I 1 Harold Wineh sat rigid lll

six years, he-

Through the past this tradition has similarly

devillcd the Conservatives and.

adhered to by the .. But the Social Credit and NDP have never superim- posed party discipline on the M.I’s individual conscience.

HISTORIC VOTE Thus it happened that an amazing 15 per cent of the NDP members h r o k e ranks week. Bert llerridge, a n (1 Colin Cameron, the silver-spok« both ap- plause by voting for the govern- ment and against the bulk of their party. Vancouver's ' h i a seat Without voting at all. mute-

‘ 1y expressing his disapproval 0

both Conservatives and Liber- a

Rcrt Herridue explained to me: “I have more confidence in lloward Green‘s efforts to seek disarmament than I have Mike Pearson‘s nuclear

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, icy. And I think that we. should

have attended to pcnrlint: logis~ lation, and heard a budget, be- fore an election, so that p 00-

. ple would know what they are

banned the well-organized Com- ‘

munist groups at home and im-

.prisoned their members even :while courting favor with the

successful backing of the repub- i

lican revolution in Yemen. But it has been less pleasant

news for several other Middle’ Eastern countries: Syria, which ‘

split with the UAR. and has been named in Cairo propa- ganda as the next candidate for

revolution; Jordan and Saudi‘

bia. monarehics which clashed with Nasser in backing the ousted monarch of Yemen,

Kremlin

As for the Iraqis themselves. neutral observers coming out of the country say most of the 7,000,000 population has greeted the revolution with rate

In the end Nasser may emerge as the big winner in the

. 'h"h s certain to. . , upset’ “ K seem . vote by walking beluud the cur-

fan his hopes for a united Arab world directed from Cairo. But Kassem‘s own revolution in 1958 appeared at the time to be a break for the Egyptian leader. and only time will tell whether the new revolution will alto go sour on him.

Germany And The Alliance

Christian Science Monitor

The statement of Chancellor Adenauer on foreign and inter- nal policy before the lower house of the West German Par- liament should help to counter the centrifugal forces t h a t have been tugging E u re p e and the Atlantic Al~ Iiance.

Speculation had centered on whether Dr. Adenauer woul lean toward his friend, Presi- dent de Gaulle of France, in the latter‘s objection to Britain as a m e m be r o the European Common Market. This he has not done. Though looking for benefits from the Franco - Ger- man treaty Just signed, he has declared that West. Germany intends shill to work for British Inclusion in the market area and considers the negotiations "stuck" but not “broken off."

There may yet be justified de- mands by Economic Minlster Erhard and Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt for are vigorous action along these lines. 1 heartening to see that enthus- iasm among Germans for Eur- opean unity remains strong. This "European Idea" cannot be channeled along a Paris-Bonn axis but require! close relations with Britain as well as integra- tion with Italy and the Low Countnies.

The Chancellor made It clear. too. that the Federal Republic supports advocacy by the Unit- ed States of a nuclear deterrent under the North Atlantic Treaty

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it considers American help cs- sentlal to the security of Eur-

By the sequence of events. this will be widely take. as a response to the crisis that has broken over General de Gaulle'a unexpected stand. But it is more than that. The speech is i th e broad summa of intentfld for- eign and domestic policy which normally would have been given last.December on the establish- ment of a revised coalition gov- ernment.

Apparently the positions stat- ed h a v c bee sfactory enough to the Bundestag to muf- fle challenges of the Chancel- lor‘s leadership. They may ex- ert also a much wider concilla- tory effect.

BRITONS WOUNDED

LONDON (Reuters) Two British subjects were wounded Saturday when stray gunfire hit the British Embassy in Bagh- dad, Iraq; according to official reports reaching London. One was Keith Doves. Reuters cor- respondent In Baghdad. and the other onald nrsithwelte. the embassy's assistant admhtlstra~ lion officer. rt as

be serious.

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ATLAS FIRED SANTA B A R B A R A. Calif. missile was hired at Vandenberg air force base early Wednesday h what the air force described

as a routine launching.

voting for." Cameron frankly said that he could n at support the Liberals' nuclear policy.

Onlookers were even more in- terested by the unusual non-

} conformity on the Conservative ‘ benches. Ed Morris of Halifax

sat firmly in his seat but did not vote. "I cannot publicly en- dorse Mr. Dicfcnbaker."

asserted to the Press later. Art Smith, of Calgary, avoided the

tain where he escaped from public sight. Former Defence

‘ Minister Doug Harkness, also

from Calgary, remained in his office. Both these were protest- ing against the apparent ambi- guity of r c c e n t government statements on nuclear policy.

No matter what one thinks of the particular case, this un- shackling of performing seals was a welcome new trend.

Kidney Termed Educated Filter

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Della:

THE KIDNEY is an educated filter. These omens remove cer- tain chemicals from the blood. then moments later reabsorb those the body needs bolero they escape into the urine. This is done by means of two sets of

The first I at of filters (glam. erull) behaves llke an ordinary funnel into which someone il squeezing a wet sponge. More than 190 quarts of liquid p a a I through the millions of these microscopic funnels during a 24 hour period. The filtrate silo contains. among other things, a pound of sodium bicarbonate and 2% pounds of salt. But most of us could not survive if we lost all of this water and chemicals.

It is here that the second group of filters (tubules) come into play. They look like a Ion: coiled hose that Is attached to the end of the funnel. They re- absorb most of the material, which explains why we pass less than two quarts of urine d 'l .

Exploring the kidneys he s intrigued physicians since the days of the early Egyptians. But it took the microscope to show up the details. And we learned more and more as the microscope improved and bio- chemical rescarch came into Its 0W".

Meanwhile. diseases of the kidney were being studied and the name of Dr. Richard Bright stands out above all others. In

1827 he differentiated three forms of kidney disease which we know now to be three stages of a single disease. At any rate. most people recognize Bright's disease as a kidney disorder.

Kidney transplants also make news now and then. as does ‘the artificial kidney. The rela- ilionship between hormones and gthe kidneys is the current ex- icitemcnt in this field. Several glands such as the parathy- roids, pituitary. adrenals, an thyroid tell the normal kidney what to excrete and how muc water to eliminate.

Aldosterone, produced by the Iadrcnals. controls the trans- port of sodium and potassium. It plays a role in dropsy an ‘heert failure. The kidneys also 5 produce the enzyme. which is ireleascd when the individual is ' under tension. It reacts with

other chemicals to yield a prod- , net that raises blood pressure,

to meet the added stress. DISORDER 0F PANCREAS ‘ 1-1. R. writes: What treatment ,‘is given chronic pancreatitis? REPLY

‘3 Diet is most important he. , cause digeslion usually Is Im- lpaircd. weight loss occurs, and ‘fatty and nitrogenous foods are lost in the stools. Fats are . restricted and pancreatin is ad- I ministered d a i l y. ACTH o r cortisone is used occasionally. S u r g e r y is advisable when there is an associated infection of the gall bladder. BANDS FROM OVER- STRETCHING

Mrs. B. writes: What caused . white lines to appear on my thighs?

REPLY

e Striae are most likely to cc- ; cur when the s kin has been loverstretched and then returns ‘ to normal. This may follow pre- ignancy or reducing but occas—