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Those NORAD Briefings

What a Canadian Press writer describes as “one of the biz a r re sidelights of the election campaign" was the continued propagation of a. pro-nuclear policy through the de- fense department after the resig- nation of Defence Minister Hark- ness. Some time before he resigned from the cabinet because of “ir- reconcilable” differences with Prime Minister Diefenbaker on the nuclear issue, Mr. Harkness authorized the use of RCAF aircraft to fly a num- ber of groups to Colorado Springs, for briefings by senior officers of North American Air Defence Com- mand. It appears that his decision authorizing the trips was not re— ferred back to the minister’s office when Hon. Gordon Churchill took over.

Why was this? The CP story doesn't say, but one can guess. The briefings at Colorado Springs in- cluded the military viewpoint on the necessity for defensive nuclear warheads and the group visits to NORAD, for what in effect were pro-nuclear briefings, continued af- ter Mr. Harkness resigned and Mr. Churchill assumed the defense port- folio on Feb. 11.

Thus, while Prime Minister Diefenbaker was saying on the bust- ings that Canada should not be made a “dumping ground” for nuc- lear warheads, and quoting U.S. De- fense Secretary McNamara in sup- port of his arguments, NORAD was giving visiting Canadians its view- point on the need for such warheads to be placed in Canada.

Busy with his own election cam- paign. Mr. Churchill was apparent- ly unaware of what was going on. The trips to NORAD authorized by his predecessor included a visit of Canadian weekly newspaper editors, and the NORAD viewpoint got into a lot of weekly newspapers in Can- ada right in the middle of the elect- ion campaign.

An odd sidelight, indeed, on how election campaigns are fought!

Mr. Dietenbaker’s Future

Commentators are now speculat- ing on Mr. Diefenbaker's future. When his former defense minister, Mr. Harkness, expressed the view last week that a Conservative leader- ship convention is now in order, his words aroused many echoes in polit-

ical circles. It is not difficult, how- ever, to find c o n t r a r y opinions. Those who feel that Mr. Diefen- baker will bow out at the first suit- able opportunity point generally to his age, but the recent campaign must have demonstrated to the most sceptical that he is abundantly en- dowed with physical vigor.

It is recalled, however, that only two defeated Prime Ministers ever made poiltical comebacks in Canada, and each had an impressive age advantage over Mr. ‘Diefenbaker. Sir John A. Macdonald was 59 when he was defeated in the 1874 elect- ion. Mr. Mackenzie King was 51 when he was forced out briefly in 11926, and 55 when he was defeated

' by. Mr. Bennett in 1930. Mr. Diefen- heker, his critics keep reminding him, will be 68 in September.

' They also argue that he now dreads a divided party. Conservative

:diacontent in Ontario and Quebec mu evident before the cabinet Iplit

,Id last February. The complaint was Bond is that. under its present leader-

:allb the party has alienated the

i;bueineee community, loat tradition-

?ally Career-votive riding: and dil-

~ W support essential to victory.

.eu equally penned" coa-

ia made out by those who believe that Mr. Diefenbakor will fight again. It is obvious that he does not yield easily. He defeated the Con- servative rebels last February and a new rebellion would almost cer- tainly have to reckon with his strong Prairie support. Some Con- servatives feared two months ago that their party faced a worse pros- pect than defeat; they foresaw its virtual destruction and the creation of a political vacuum which would almost certainly be filled by Social Credit. Mr. Diefenbaker’s perform- ance prevented that catastrophe. Although defeated, the Conservative party remains a national contender solidly entrenched in rural areas and with representatives from nine of the ten provinces. There is no vacuum for new parties to fill.

It is predicted, too, that in any struggle within the party Mr. Diefenbaker would have another marked advantage. The role which the February rebels played in the losing of the election would come up for close scrutiny at a convent- ion. Offenses of this nature are not lightly regarded by political parties.

These are speculations, of course. The important thing is for the party to retain its drive and vigor as the Official Opposition in the next Par- liament. Looking over the leaders-hip prospects from this distance, it is hard to see anyone coming within a mile of Mr. Diefenbaker‘s qualifica- tions.

Colonization Headache Britain is facing a serious crisis in Central Africa. In compliance with anticolonial demands, she has agreed to the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasa- land, thus freeing Northern Rhod- esia and Nyasaland, which are gov- erned by African majorities, from dependence on Southern Rhodesia, where the Constitution has pre- served the White minority’s control. She has refused, however, to comply with an Assembly resolu- tion calling for another constitution for Southern Rhodesia, maintaining that this is a matter for its inhabit- ants, who have had internal self- rule for years. Representatives of the special committee on colonial issues will go to London at the end of this month to discuss the situa- tion with the British Government. If they fail to obtain satisfaction, the anticolonialist members are ex- pected to demand the inclusion of the Southern Rhodesia question on the agenda of the United Nations. The demand for immediate in- dependence for Southern Rhodesia has been presented by Winston Field, the extremist leader of the white settlers, who recently became Prime Minister. Britain’s rejection of it is in line with the efforts Prime Minister Macmillan has made to ac- commodate his policy to what he has called the winds of change sweeping over Africa. The country has 250,000 Europeans and almost 3,000,000 black Africans. If Prime Minister Field should gain his ob- jective, it would be the first time since independence was granted to South Africa in 1910 that power would be transferred by Britain to a white minority government. As the Sunday Observer well says in this connection: “Fifty years ago such an act was unwise. Today it would be unthinkable.”

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Women’s Institute of Spring- field is to be congratulated on pro- ducing a very attractive brochure on Lucy Maud Montgomery, “The Island’s Lady of Stories.” It con- tains, in brief form, a wealth of in- formation about the authorees, her sources of inspiration and the aet- tinge in which her “Anne” stories were laid. Our summer visitors es- pecially will find this booklet of great value and interest.

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The new Royal Commission on Taxation held its first public hear- ing at Ottawa on Tuesday and heard. among other things, a pre- diction from the Canadian Tax Foundation that because government expenditures are growing faster than the economy, taxes likely will htcreaee rather then decrease. and that this would occur- particularly at the provincial and municipal level. Within hours of this state- ment, gasoline and mice tax in- creeaca were announced by the pro- vinchl treasurer- in our Island‘th More. Show how quickly ideas get around. in this modern ml

‘OLDHARLOTTETOWN

Overflow crowd at the Charlottetown race track, October 1890. Copied by Craswell Portrait Studio

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Soolhsoyers, Horosc0pes And Politics

Are you superstitious?

What would you do. if you were the thirteenth prime min- ister of Canada; if you saw your Cabinet slashed to a mere thirteen ministers through re- signations and electoral de- feats: and if you then on the thirteenth day of the month learn he number of your ministers rejected by the electors at the polls in two elec- tions had risen to thirteenilz

Perhaps it would not need su- perstitious fear of the number

"thirteen" to decide to do ex- actly what Canada's thirteenth prime minister decided to do.on 13th April —— be gone!

And if you could bravely ig- nore the folk superstition about that unlucky number. perhaps you nevertheless feel drawn to- wards the predictions of sooth- sayers. and would consult your horoscope for the day when you proposed to ta k 9 this momen-

tous step of resignation.

WHAT STARS FORETELL Then. if your birthday falls

on 18th September as does the

birthday of Canada‘s 13th

prime minister. the astrologersl

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_J FLOWS

There‘s a place in my home-

, land. I'm longing to see, i

A place of fond memories, en- . dearing to me;

‘Tis a land of enchantment. when gay summer throws

Her garlands about where the North River flows.

There off when mild zephyrs sprang out of the west,

To kiss Nature‘s children an d rock them to rest, ,

I've drunk the sweet Nectar of meadow and rose. ‘

And thrilled to birds' songs l where the North River flows. l

But now I am lonely as even- l ing's first star. . i

That shines on the earth from i the heavens afar; 3

And never again will my heart l find repose. ‘

Till my footsteps return where l the North River flows.

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Then I'll meet the dear friends l that I’ve lost for awhile,

And feel the true warmth of their welcoming smiile.

For old friends are best friends i as everyone knows.

In that beautiful Vale where the North River flows.

F. I]. MacARTHUR (All music rights reserved)

Our Yesterday’s

(From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

. mage wa- cauaed to the Charlottetown her-

was swept down from West Riv- er re a swift - running tide. A conalderable portion of the head of Connolly's wharf was canted awayvby the ice.

The motor - vessel Mmione, Captain Harry Brown, left Mon- day for Crapaud. P. E. I. from where file will sail for Sydney. us. with a cargo of produce.

TEN YEARS AGO

Apr! 18, 1053 A. F. Calder, veteran taxider- mist. expects to produce a lut- Ing memento of a day of real apart or Stewart Pierce, when he stuffs and mounts the 4 lb.

tadviduell given the lvllege of "Mklng the stick”

An . ‘ quake toppled the lighthouse in

l BEACON WAS NEEDED ‘ about 280

on a flight made In a single en-

slgnation date in

"Today the emphasis is on your need to clean house; to clear away details: to finish putting out the debris. This means emotional as well as ac- tual clutter."

Does that fit the case? It was published before the events were decided. The astrologers continue with advice pertinent to a politician about to leave the position of Her Majesty's chief adviser. and to become chief critic to the new adviser:

“Start fresh. Take an optim- istic view of the future!"

Thos w o r d 5 almost make one believe that crystal balls and tea leaves can indeed foretell the future accurately. If so. why cannot. all soothsay- ers become millionaires on the race track and the stock mar- From that coincidence about the recurring number “thir- teen”. let. us survey the men— and the lone woman —— who were appointed to the cabinet of Canada's 13th prime minis-

would predict this for your re- 1963:

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er.

Sixteen new ministers, In ad- dition to the first among those equals, were sworn in on that hot sunny let day of June 1957. I called it "the taxi cabinet". because they arrived at Gov- ernment House for their indoc- trination in a flotilla of taxi-ca- briolets. How hot it was! I re- member George Pearkes, now Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, standing outside Go- vernment House in his braces was stripping off, his waistcoat donned for' that! ceremonial occasion. ,

Defeat and resignation took its toll of those first Conserva- tive Ministers to be sworn in since Earl Rowe took that oath on August 30, 1935. Although still 3 MP on that date 22 years later. he, the only ex-minister among Conservative MPs, was not invited into the new cabin- et. Yet while he carried on in Parliament, he saw those first 16 reduced to a mere 5, w served out the full course: Leon Balcer (who was upgraded by time from sixth place to Cana- da‘s second minister-I, Church- ill ("the worst Defence Minis- ter since the days of Ethelred the Unready," quipped his op- ponent in the recent electionl. and Nowlan, MacLean and Starr.

Although 37 ministers were sworn into that 70~month cabin- et. Thirteen were defeated at the polls while still supporting the leadership; one died: twelve resigned; that left a mere handful to attend the post- mortem cabinet meeting. but not all did: Canada's first wo- man cabinet minister preferred to enjoy her vacation, and three were mere parliamentary post- scripts who had never faced the ouse of Commons as minis-

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rs. Will any of these ever climb back to the political summit? Maybe a very few. 0f more than 30 living men who served as ministers during the Liberal regime which ended in 1957, on- ly five are still in the House of Commons today,‘ and hence available for cabinet posts. But even that offers no guarantee, as Earl Rowe learned in 1957.

Find Ruins Of Phoros

National Geographic Society

Divers have discovened frag- ments of the Pharos. the gneat lighthouse that was one of the seven wonders of the ancient w

In line harbor of Alexandria. Egypt, the underwater explor- ers found a decorated stone facade, a broken column. and

statuary fillet may have orna- ‘ '

merited the monumental struct- ure.

The of the Pharoe lie about 24 feet beneath the Mediterranean Sea.

1375, destroying a scatter that had stood for.l.600 yeam.

The Pharos was B.C. in the reign of Ptolemy II, 1' Phiadeltphus. this enlightened rulers of Egypt made Alexandria into a cutter of became and .1 cityalsowaeamejorpoit,aod a beacon was needed to guide ships to Egypt's IOW-lylm coast the chords outal

Alexandria’s harbor. he bghfliome‘ built on the island of Phat-a. a neutral

Smaller statues in the Pbaros supposedly included a rotating figure that followed the sun's course with a pointing finger

another that musically sounded the hours.

PILLAR OF FIRE

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Shoulder Straps Are Also Need For Safe Driving

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Deflen

SEAT belts may become standard equipment on all 1964 model cars. Most manufactur- ers now place holes in the floors of new cars so the buy- ers can install their own belts. Many health and safety organi- zations deserve credit for this bit of selling. But with success in sight, we find the seat belt is not enough. We need should- er straps also.

The seat belt has lifesaving properties in that it keeps pas- sengers from being catapulted from the car in traffic acci- dents. But it does not prevent the face from striking the in- strument panel or the teeth from hitting the steering wheel. A harness arrangement carries protection'to the logical limit but it must be practical or the average person will not use it.

Numerous types of shoulder straps have been suggested but Dr. Horace E. Campbell of Denver believes that for the present. a single Sam Browne type may be the most accept. able. The extra strap is car'- ried across the body to the in- ner hip. It is fastened on the driver‘s side to the edge of the roof at a point behind and above the left shoulder. The other end is inserted into th seat belt near the right hip. The arrangement is just the opposite for the passenger on the right side.

It is important to wear the usual seat belt as snug and low as possible. One of our medical journals reported an incident in which a car going 30 miles an hour struck anoth- er vehicle. A passenger wear- ing a safety belt was the only person hurt. It was too loose and high and the force was enough to injure the spleen and break some n'bs.

y early experience with safety belts taught me an Im- portant lesson. Test the belt after It is installed. My first set was not attached properly to the frame of the car and pulled out when (after driving 5.000 miles) I tugged on it. In my last car, one of the straps was not bolted down. installing a belt may be delegated to a flunkie and you fool only your-

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the Cuban people. Now all that

’T’NO'TES BY

THE WAT;

led leek seldom nu looking for people who always keep themselves busy. — St. Tho- mu Times-Journal.

The cruel world rules you on what you did yesterday; not on what you plan to do tomorrow. —Wood.stock Sentind - Review.

“What. your eon II an under- téker? I thought you said he was a doctor.” "No, I said he follow- ed the medical profession." - Montreal Star.

A postman in uniform. who was watching the Loire-Dorrie. gne soccer name. became so excited that he jumped onto the field, kicked the bell and scored a goal {at the Loire. With apologies. he left hurried- ly without giving his name. The

e pla so am- used that they insisted the goal be counted, — Nouvelle Repub-

fl » Em”: I“. 311‘. :1 Illicit I deserve a rain. Bose: Perh 5. you do. Speak to me in a To“;

eye — If you’re still with us, — Guelph Mercury. '

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Men don't like to run out or gee when driving, but they don't mind if the wife does that—Chm them New:

He who pay: the piper may call the tune but. popular music hot what It Ia todalh he may not mogulze It. — Ottawa Journal

a headline reads: "Scientists 1 believe life in More marginal at beat." It's getting to be like ' that on earth. -- Ottawa Chi-- zen.

"After the first drink. a lamb; after the second, a lion; after the arm, a pig,” from the Talmud. Yes, and after the fourth, a

lique. Tours.

skunk. — Woodstock SentineL, Review. ‘

Emborrossin

By Her «I

Were the exiles betrayed?

'llhat question eclhou over the U.S. political arena as the United States observes the sec- ond anniversary of its most em- barrassing operation -— master- minding the famous Bay Pigs invasion fiasco that began under the cover of darkness on April 17, 1961.

All sorts of conflicting, con- fusing and misleading state- ments emerged immediately after that debacle. The U.S. ad- ministration at first maintained it was not directly involved: that it had not intervened mil- tarily in the attempts by Cuban exiles to unseat Fidel Castro.

Later, the administration ad- mitted it bad financed and trained the exiles; supplied the military equipment and even some of the pilots who flew old B-26 bombers over the invasion area. The U.S. left some of its own dead in Cuba.

ow, Jose Miro Cardona, head of the Cuban Revolution- ary Council, maintains Presi~ dent Kennedy pledged to mount a new and better invasion at- tempt, a pledge which the ex- iled leader maintains has been broken. Moreover, he charges Kennedy has adopted a "peace- ful coexistence” with the Cas- ino regime. CHARGES REJECTED

These are charges the state department h a s tily rejected, suggesting Miro Cardona is an- gered because the U.S. govern- ment won‘t give him money to finance an invasion or won't give him a position of trust in any new government plans for dislodging Castro.

Two years ago Kennedy planned to separate Castro from