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Closmg In On Diei

Poor Dief! Was ever a political leader in Canada since Sir John A. Macdonald so berated as he is these days? He’s being blamed, blasted, discounted and denigrated for paralyzing Parliament. threat- ening Confederation, and goodness knows what else. One needs cour- age to say a good word for him at all! Recently Prime Minister Pear- " n denounced him as the nation’s _. gest problem—Public E n e m y Kb. 1, so to speak—and now two of Mr. Pearson's cabinet colleagues hive virtuoust taken up the cry. Who could be more. qualified to fia‘eak on the demerits of an 0p- ‘ ition leader than these gentle- men! Finance Minister Gordon. for fiample. We all know how impartial Mr. Gordon is in such matters, and if is his considered opinion—given lit a Liberal political meeting in Toronto this week at which Dief ne‘ems to have been the chief topic of'discussion—that “the sooner we get rid of him the better."

The matter was urgent, as Mr. Gordon saw it. because the Liberal Party is getting ready for a fed- eral election. With that man Diefen- baker around there was no know- lng‘ what he might do in his ego- tistic efforts to curry favor with the electorate. All he wanted, Mr. Gordon hinted darkly. was to get back into power. Awful thought!

Agriculture Minister Hays, at the same meeting. shared Mr. Gor- don's concern about. the danger of having Dief on the loose. He even added another clause to the indict- ment. The Conservative Party, he said. was one of Canada's two truly national parties. It was necessary that it be maintained, and that man Diefenbaker was bent on wrecking it. it was incumbent on all good Liberals. therefore, to help the Con- srrvatives save themselves by gel- ting rid of him immediately.

Alas, it is not only opponents who are shedding crocodile tears over Mr. Diefenbaker's fall from grace. The hue and cry is being taken up everywhere. Many of his critics were once his friends, which makes it worse. “He sort of re- minds you." says one Ottawa com- mentator. more sympathetic than most. “of a brave old buffalo bull. cut off from the herd. and alone. as the wolves close in."

That. too. may be a biased es- timate. A premature one. at that. We frankly don't know. But it's a relief to hear a pitying voice amid the chorus of raucous denunciations.

A Formidable Problem

,NATO allies, it is said, are Y breathing more easily now that they know President Johnson will be in the White House for the next years. They are not certain that he is going to be easy to deal with, however. For that reason, perhaps, there is relief that the PFeaident has decided not to at- tempt to call a hurry-up summit meeting at this time, to try to ree-

e the alliance from the dissen- , ‘ that are threatening it. There is a feeling that he would go "alum-handed by forcing such “(conference too soon, and thath maul preparations are

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France and most of the other Euro- , pean nations.

The danger of the European Common Market coming apart at the seams because of the dispute over agricultural price policy.

NATO is in danger of unravel- ing, too. because General de Gaulle wants to block the United States- sponsored MLF (multilateral force) f and the other European countries l shrink from having West Germany t participate unless Britain joins.

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The so-called Kennedy round of trade negotiations. designed to get a new tariff agreement for the non- Communist world. is also_having a hard time getting started. There is more dissent than agreement in prospect.

President de Gaulle seems to look with equanimity upon a divid- ed Europe. and the rest of Europe looks with the deepest anxiety on what is happening.

There room for American initiative here, but it. will have to be undertaken patiently and prud- ently and without pushing too hard too soon. it may indeed prove to be the biggest problem in diplomacy that President Johnson will be called upon to face

Reassuring Signs

Britain and the United States came to Canada‘s aid two and a half years ago when it was in financial ' trouble. Now Canada has placed an undisclosed amount at Britain's disposal for use in riding out. the Old Country‘s present emergency. Moreover. Finance Minister Gor- don has been able to report that the last $57 million of the $300 million this country borrowed from the lnternational Monetary Fund when it faced its own monetary crisis has been repaid.

The relative speed with which Canada has been able to liquidate this debt encourages the hope that the import restrictions which Bri- tain has had to impose (as we did in 1962) may be lifted in a matter of months.

Meantime. another reassuring sign of Canada's recovery is in- dicated in an announcement from London by Herbert Moran, Canada’s foreign aid chief, who estimates that our contribution to the Co- lombo plan may total about $100 million in grants and long-term loans this year, marking a substan- tial increase in Canadian assistance to Southeast Asia.

Spokesmen for 21 countries— all those involved except Cambodia —are in London for a four-day an— nual Colombo Plan ministerial con- ference opening today with a speech by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

Mr. Moran, representing Can- ada. said on his arrival that he came to London with a sense of satisfaction. Two years ago, be- cause of internal financial troubles. Canada had to announce a 20 per cent reduction in Colombo Aid plan. It was the speaker’s uncomfortable position to have to explain how the reduction would affect the various recipient countries. But since then, Canada not only has restored the slice taken away but added to the total contribution in a revised pro- gram that includes not only grants and 50-year loans but also an ex- panded program of food aid.

EDITORIAL NOTES

An unusual conference has been called at Toronto this week. at which the chief .iIJstices from Canada’s ten provinces will meet to consider ways of expediting and improving the handling of criminal cases. The sessions will be closed to the pub- lic, but a statement may be issued at the end of the conference which was recommended by the National Conference of Judges on Sentencing last May to discuss the conduct of preliminary hearings. trials, appeals and sentencing, among other things.

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To help establish closer liaison between consumers and their repre- sentatives, President Johnson dir- ected the newly appointed U.S. com- mittee on consumer interests, head- ed by Mrs. Esther Peterson, former assistant labor secretary. to play an active role in promoting con- sumer welfare through conferences and other educational activities. In one week after its establishment the committee received more than 8,000 letters complaining about de- ceptive packaging. excessive inter- est charges. unscrupulous door to door salesmen and a host of other

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OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson Well Represented In Career Plums

The belief is growing ever more widespread that Prime Minister Pearson has initiated a system under which the Pro- fince of Quebec is receiving special consideration, such as is not accorded to the other nine provinces in Confederation.

Along this line comes a query from a reader in Timmins whose population is 45 per cent French - Canadian -— concern- ing the number of people of that ethnic group now holding am bassadorships and other gov. ernment. - a w a rded career plums in the federal establish- ment. This is an interestin a question. and I am most grate ful to the reader who posed il. OUR 48 AMBASSADORS

A survey of Canadian ambas- sadors around the world today . shows that we have 47 men and t

c woman appointed to foreign capitals. Of those no less than 12. or one - quarlcr of the total, are French - Canadian. while three others were born in Queh bec Province. I have been able to trace the birthplaccs of most. and I fin d that of the remainder eleven were born in Ontario. four in Nova Scolln. three in Saskatchewan, two each in .C. A rta and Manitoba. one each in New Brunswick and Newfoundland. two in Britain, one in China and one in USA.

Our two most important diplo-

' appointments h a v e traditionally been regarded as the head of our diplomatic mm sion in the capital city of each of our mother countries. Lon- don and P a r i s. Equally tra- ditionally. an English - speak- in: Canadian has been appozn- led to the former. and a French - Canadian approprlat- ely to the latter,

Prime Minister Pearson. it became l-:.iown. favoured a re- versal of this pattern. So as a‘ first step be appointed his long time political colleague, and the top French - Canadian Cain nel Minister, Lionel Chevrier, to London. But then at his ser- ond step his resolve failed or did the need for "speci sl consideration" rear its ugly head? French ~ Canadian Jules Leger was appointed to Paris. thus blankeling our two mo- ther - countries with French slepsons.

FEDERAL SENESCHALS

In the apparatus of govern- ment administration at Ottawa. there are several categories of appointed salaried scneschals.

Most prominent is the Den- uty Minister, who is the sea- ior civil servant in each De- partment. working directly under the transient political ap- pointee as Minister. Five of the twenty - two in this class are

French - Canadians govern-

ment boards. such as the Board of Broadcast Governors. National Film Board and Tariff Board: each is headed by a chairman. of whom two out of nine are French - -Canad-

ian. In contrast to temporary Royal Commission 5. there are nine permanent com-

missnons. such as the Civil Ser- vice Commission and the Nat- ional Capital Commission; the chairmen of lfiree are French - Canadian. Seven of the 31 Crown Corporations. which are really government- in - business. have active head

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Finally there are fourteen other top appointments. such as Auditor General of Canada. Chief Electoral Officer Queen‘s Printer; six are led by French - Canadians.

Many of these appointments are hangovers from the prev- ious government. and nothing to do with the present Prime Minister. But he has added to the French - Canadian represen- tation in this list. which now totals 31 out of 109 top posi- lions.

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The French Usage

Eugene Forscy. Ottawa, in a Letter in The Toronto Globe and Mail

in your otherwise admirable editorial, Exercise in Futility. which appeared Nov. 3. you say. “French Canada is a nation tin the French usage of the wordl." Don‘t you mean. "in the cultur- al for ethnic. or sociologicall usage of the word"?

Surely. in both English a n d French. the word is used both in this latter sense (the Scottish nation. the Welsh nationl. and also in a legal. jurdical con- utitutional sense (the British na- tion, the United Nations)?

General de Gaulle, who pre- sumably has some acquaintance with the French language used the French word "nation" in the political sense. and applied it specifically to Canada. when he greeted Mr. Pearson in Paris, saying that he wished Canada to "remain" t"demeurer"i "a strong and united nation" ("une nation forte et unie").

eal of trouble has arisen from English Canadians admitting what is self-evident and what English Canadinr has ever denied lt?i. that French

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Lung Cancer Increasing

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

Cancer of the lung is the most common *uae of death from malignancies among men. Fifty years ago the disease was rare. whereas 43,000 Americans died of it last year. Fewer than 6.000 victims were women.

Smoking andrair pollution are incriminated most often as playing causative roles. Both are capable of irritating the lin- ing of the air passageways and chronic bronchitis develops aft- er years of exposure. Some au- thorities blame everything on smoking; others on air pollu-

The public may be confused by these conflicting opinions. not realizing that both factors. They are not as philosOphical as a 67-year-old New orker who stopped smoking 25 years ago, following a heart attack. His chronic bronchitis disappeared.

A few weeks ago he read an article quoting a physician who said the urban resident inhales daily the equivalent in toxic sub- stances of two packs of cigarets, regardless of whether he smok- es. This did not confuse our reader who commented: "If air pollution is a link to cancer. then cigarel inhalation adds an- other link lhal brings on this dreadful disease years sooner." This is not a new idea because the medical profession has known for some time that two cancer agents produce tumors faster than one.

in all probability there is more to lung cancer titan inhal- ing chemical agents. The chron- ic bronchitis thal stems from infections- must be considered. The same applies to heredity, as some individuals are more susceptible to chemicals and gases that pollute the air we breathe and inhale when smok- ing. This may explain why some

light smokers develop lung can- cer after smoking the s a me number of years as a heavy v smoker. I

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Canada is a “nation” in the eth- .

nic. sociological. cultural sense; accepting assurances that this is “the” meaning in French' and then finding themselves far- cd with political demands bas- ed on the other men ‘ .g: “A na- tion is entitled to this. a nation is entitled to that. a nation is en- titled to t‘other thing" , almost ad infinitum: and then, if they jib. being met with. "But y ou admit we are a nation. How can you balk at the logical conse- quences of that admission?"

1 venture to suggest we shall get. further if we recognize ‘he two meanings of the word in both languages. and make it plain. in each case. which we are using it in. We are asking for trouble if we allow anyone to stop our mouths by saying. “Ah! But you don't understand French: you can't use the word

nation in the political sense in . ench '

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head with his independent ear deterrent.

Supersonic Broke

Montreal Star

The new British government’s apparent disenchantment with the Anglo-French decision to gel the first supersonic air trans- port into production may not oe the retrograde step some quart- ers say it is. Already estimated costs have been doubled. pros- pective users are concerned over their own operating costs and the serious questions raised by safety engineers over a great many factors have still not been resolved. If Britain, for econom- ic reasons, decides the brakes must be put on the joint wro- feet. the resulting breathing space will provide the time to carry out the work which was

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Those Defense Cuts

Montreal

Any hopes that the cuts in de- fence apendlng proposed by the Minister of National Defence, Mr. Paul Hellyer, would make way for lower taxes are without foundation. Defence spending is not going down.

What Mr. Hellyer proposed was to cut the overhead cost the department—the so- called "housekeeping expenses." As part of this plan he intends to re- duce personnel and unite the forces. In the first place. he has yet to prove that costs can be sub- stantially reduced by lbods. In the fiscal year 1983-04 defence srzndlng went up, not down. It was WHOM more than the original estimate. This was partly because there was not enough time for Mr. Belly- er's changes to tabs effect, partly because the Govern increased service pay and its

contribution tonervfoe paladins. How muchllr.lellyernillhe abletoreducetbenaueelsotu

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expenses for 1964-65 is still on. known. What is known is that he is faced wlth the to make large outlays on new equipment. He will have to provide a ne fighter-bomber for the RCAF, a new type of ship for the navy, and new equipment for the rm .

All this will not. of course. be paid for in one year. But the weight of the expenditure over the next four or five years will be heavy.

Mr. Reilypr'a real aim is to keep the rising costs of routine maintenance from ug way Into the defence budget. Whethehopestosavefromde- fence housekeeping he will use to help meet he costs of equip-

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ill-fated Comet.

Most of the world's air lines I

have entered at least pro-forms orders either for the Anglo

French Concorde or for what- ever is forthcoming from the

design competition scheduled to ‘ be

decided in the United States next month. Speed and prestige go hand in hand in today’s inten- sely competitive air transport industry. Significantly. however Air Canada has not placed lt- self on either of the waiting lists because of all the lmponderabl- es. its attitude is that when the supersonic: are proven here there will be no difficulty in meeting air line requirements. The first major challenge to the whole concept of supersonic transport was voiced by B.K.0. Luudberg. the Swedish safety scientist. His views on the prob- able effect of the sonic boom on all that lice beneath the path of

underscored by the Federal Av- !attou Agency in the United stal- es. That agency's tests showed the noise problem will be even more severe than previously an- ticipated. And so little is still known about such things as tra- vel at altitudes of cosmic radia- tion that no one has tried yet to answer Dr. Lundberg's quea- tione on the matter of crew and passenger safety. A delay on the headlong rush into the un- ln fact speed the day when supersonic travel I: commercially sound.

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105. MILD SPINAL ARTHRITIS A rs. T. P. writes: X-rays of my spine show minimal hyper- lrophic oslcoarthrilic changes in the lumbar spine and sacroiliac joints. How is this condition treated?

REPLY No treatment is needed if pain is not present. Heal. massage, and bending exercises will keep the spine flexible and strength- en the back muscles. A corset may be needed when there is