growing desire-to talk man-to-man with President de Gaulle. When and if such talks occur, interests of Bri- tain and West Germany and per- haps other NAFO members will be involved. With NATO approval a Western summit of three powers, or perhaps more, could well follow. _ This, indeed, has loomed as a mat- ter of major importance during the past few weeks. A purely Western summit meeting has become more urgent than’ an East-West one. The trouble is due to worsening relations with France. President de Gaulle has withdrawn the French fleet from NATO’s western Med- - jterranean command‘and has_ re- fused to permit establishment of NATO missile bases on French soil. He has refused also to join in a un- ited NATO air defense command or permit stock piling of weapons un- der United States. control in France. In practical terms, he maintains that _ the inescapable unity of world-wide engagement by the Allies demands _ unity of world-wide strategic plan- ning.
A United States miscalculation in Lebanon last summer, for example, or in the Quemoy dispute with Com- munist China, could have brought _ atomic missiles down on France. Piecemeal _inter-Allied “tconsulta- _ tion” in a crisis is an unsatisfactory
substitute for careful, continuous _ and detailed co-ordination of planning by the three Western powers ex- ercising world responsibilities— France, Britain and the United States, according , to the French
view. Other, smaller members of NATO view France’s pretensions with a
ance. They share her desire for more comprehensive policy consultation with the great powers, but resent her attempt to assert a special place for herself. There appears to be little hope for speedy resolution of - the dispute, but ignoring it only tends to widen the breach. That is why a personal meeting between Presidents de Gaulle and Eisenhower
appeals to many observers as the-
_ best means of keeping France within the NATO family.
- While the American press for the Most part is critical of de Gaulle demands, the Christian Science Monitor takes a different attitude.
_ France’s allies, it says, are today slow to recognize the present mean- ing of de Gaulle’s leadership, just @s yesterday they were slow to re- cognize what he’ stood for in World War II, when he also had to take the tough line against Allied sup- port for Darlan and the Vichy re- gime. They are still slow to see that de Gaulle is not a symbol of a de- feated but of an_ undefeatable
. France. While his assertion of France’s new faith in itself pre- sents the other Western allies with - a big internal problem, it also points to new opportunities for strengthen- ing the alliance.
“Who Runs CBC?"
Under the above heading the Fin- ancial Post, Toronto, has some per- tinent comments to make on the “explosion” in CBC and the resigna- tion of dozens of members of the staff. The editorial is too long to quote in full, but its conclusions are these: ‘
The trouble in CBC does not ap- pear to be that control of opinion has been too strict. Rather it would appear that the CBC has too long _ allowed too many persons to use the national system of radio and TV
stations to air private and personal
points of view which are offensive . to large sections of the populace and that are inevitably bound to be at- tributed to the CBC as its own views on subjects where the CBC has no
-views and should have none.
: “The CBC ‘staff are employes, hired _ to carry out the instruction of sen-
_ for management who are entrusted
_ with the responsibility for CBC oper-
ations, They should be guided by
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mixture of admiration and annoy- |
they should resign. If they want to resign over trifles, that too is their privilege.
But they do not have the right— any more than a government has—to sabotage the original concept of CBC a8 a strong, non-partisan, thorough- ty Canadian medium of communica-
tien. Mass resignations come close to
being efforts at such sabotage.
P.M.’s Summer Home
All parties in the House of Com- mons have warmly approved the le- gislation setting aside a handsome lodge and 13 acres of land in the Gatineau Hills as the Prime Minis- ter’s ‘official summer residence.
The Government already owns the property overlooking the waters of Harrington Lake, 25 miles north of Ottawa. It was purchased by the National Capital Commission during the St, Laurent administration when the Commission was buying up pri- vately-owned land for the publicly- owned Gatineau Park.
Canada’s Prime Minister already has an offficial residence at 24 Sus- sex Street in Ottawa. But the sum- mer months in the capital are often hot and humid. It is regarded as a sound investment for Canadians to have for their Prime Minister a cool retreat in the country to which he can retire for relaxation during sum: ° mer weekends, and entertain distin- guished visitors and guests away from the heat and bustle of the city.
Conflicting Testimony
Mr. Walter Gordon, who headed the Gordon Royal Commission on Canada’s economic problems, re- cently visited Communist China and has written a series of articles on his impressions. He visited various industrial plants and apparently con- vinced himself that the Communist regime is making great strides to- ‘wards its promised targets.
Very different conclusions, how- ever, have been drawn by Mr. Wis- nitzer. the correspondent of a Braz- ilian newspaper who spent 50 days in China and visited many of the plants mentioned by Mr. Gordon. These, he found, were new and some of them very well equipped. But new plants do not necessarily mean pro- duction. In the absence-of raw ma- terials, transportation and skilled workers, they may be little more than training schools.
Common sense suggests that, in the present state of our knowledge, we should be sceptical of Chinese Communist claims. It also suggests uhat we should pass up no oppor- tunity to obtain fuller information and greater understanding of the changes being wrought in China.
EDITORIAL NOTES
New Brunswick has officially en- tered the national! hospital insurance scheme, leaving only Quebec and Prince Edward Island yet to sign up.
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The Conservative cabinet at Ot- tawa has commuted another death sentence to life imprisonment. This brings the total to 23 commutations since the Diefenbaker government went into office in June, 1957. There have been six executions since that time.
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Approximately 11 percent more is expected to be spent on construction in the Atlantic Provinces this year tnan in 1958, according to the initial forecast of owners’ spending “inten- tions issued by the Federal Govern- ment.. Per capita spending on con- struction is approximately 35 percent below the national average as com- pared with 52 percent below the na- tional average in 1958. -The highest rate of activity is in New Brunswick followed closely by Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. For this Province the value of construction is given at $29,405,000, representing a 17 per cent increase over 1958. The per capita construction figure is $291. A noticeable increase is expected in most building construction categories in P.E.L, with road and highway construction up some $2,250,000,
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OTTAWA REPORT
Stormy Weather For CBC
By Patrick Nicholson
The Joyce Davidson affair was the worst schmozzie the Cana- dian Broadcasting Corporation had ever got into. But before it was out of the headlines, an extra yaad storm swamped the C.
This second storm looks very much as if it may be a smoke- screen, designed to confuse the Parliamentary Committee on Broadcasting, and red herring like, lure it away from its dam- aging probe of C.B.C. high costs. Further, it possibly has as a se- condary objective tae frightening of the Government to a stage where the C.B.C. will be given more freedom than it unpreced- entedly enjoyed in the first two years of the Diefenbaker Govern-' ment.
This second storm of course was the recognation of staffhandling talks and programs of opinion: for this storm the management of the C.B.C. must take full blame.
The Davidson business arose in the U.S.A. through no fault of the C.B.C. But it was immedia- tely and regrettably amplified by ill-judged repetition and empha- sis on the C.B.C.’s own programs.
In both cases, as with the re- cent “Grey Nuns’ program, it was abundantly clear that the management of the C.B.C. -auto- cratic in'‘their isolation in Ot- tawa, are entirely out of touca with their juniors, and permit
those subordinates to operae
Soviet Economic Threat
By Dave Mcintosh Canadian Press Staff Writer
If Russia switches its economy to a trade war with the West, look out.
But there is no firm indication that Russia will—or can—do this.
The feeling in Ottawa is that the Communist dictatorship wil have to pay more attention to the needs of 200,000,000 Russians who have been patiently waiting for a higher standard of living. Belt - tightening, no matter what the reasons, can't maintain its appeal forever. -
In other words, Western coun- tries aren't the only ones with, problems. ¢ ECONOMIC ENETRATION
A deep Soviet economic pene- tration of the West could throw Western trade into chaos. For instance,-Russia could undercut Canadian products in world mar- kets and eventually force a low- ering of the standard of living in this country.
But it would require a gigantic, single - purpose effort to under- mine the West in this fashion. In the meantime, could the Com- munist leadership keep the sup- port of the Russian people? The most likely answer is no.
Russian economic penetration so far has not led by any means in pushing West out of the so-called neutralist na- tions.
And in the last four years there has been evidence that the Com- munist party has had to pay at- tention to Russian domestic: needs if for no other reason than tirvat public opinion cannot be com- pletely ignored, even in a dic- tatorship. OTTAWA SKEPTICISM
By 1965, the Communists say, Russia will produce as much coal, steel, electricity and oil as West- ern Europe and by 1970 may forge ahead of the United States.
But there_is strong skeptic'sm in Ottaw. Russia will attain these ed objectives. It is felt that in the coming years the Soviet Union will have to divert some of its foreign aid and heavy
of Soviet’ industry. The Russian press has criticized the chemical industry for lack of progress.
Ie would be foolish, however,
for Western nations to count on
without adequate supervision and obedience.
The resignations arose because “Preview Commentary”, a daily review of parliamentary news, was ordered by the management of the C.B.C. to get back onto the tracks from which it should never have been allowed to stray.
That program was begun 138 months ago, intended to be a fac- tual report of the main happen- ings in Parliament onthe pre- vious day, I was told by Ron Fraser the director of public re- lations for the C.B.C. But the pro- gram rapidly slipped from being a factual report of all the high- lights, and was allowed to be- come a platfonm for the most partisan views heard from Ot- tawa over the C.B.C., often nar- rowed to one smaii topic.
“The C.B.C. has a responsibil- ity for presenting balanced view- points, and has no editorial pol- icy,’ Ron Fraser explained to me. Yet persons employed by the | C.B.C; agree that Preview Com-! mentary had degenerated from | balance, and was predominant- ly critical of the government.
Bearing in mind the intent of the C.B.C., considerable blame must attach to the management of the C.B.C. for allowing that proegram—and it is not the only offender—to become in effect a continuing platform adjunct to the parliamentary opposition, which it often exceeded in depth of criticism of government pol- icies.
the West free of major Soviet economic penetration. MULTILATERAL TRADE
The West could ruin itself with- out any Russian help if Wesiera blocks should become exclusive trading clubs. |
Not Such
An expert on the North has; several hard things to say about. some of the men who are respon ing to the call to go North nowa- days. He is Dr. Maxwell(Dun- bar, associate professor oh 200- logy at McGill University. His case, in a notshell, is that there. are ico many misfits.
In the past, the Arctic would have dealt roughly with misfits. But today they are likely to be well supplied with creature com- forts, hived together “‘in an air- conditioned barracks at 80 de- grees Fahrenheit” and induced to stay there for, say, an 1%- month stint, “by means of high pay and nightly movies and air- borne steaks.”
Around them, says Dr. Dun- bar, stretch the wild rocky fj- ords and the vast tundra. But for the most part these modern de- velopers of the North don’t ven- ture out into the wilderness be-
ty pallor, is the fashionable com- plexion and everyone is overfed” He says the inmantes of these cozy dwellings are usually bored and discontented.
Like most sweeping generaliza- tions, this one is probably over-
ally an indict- ment of physical and mental flab- biness. What the North really re- quires, he says, are quiet and modest men and women without ed egos, with a well develop- sense of humor, and -no illus- about their own weaknesses. they should not be victims “the constant pressure to get . to support ‘one’s fami'y
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cause they don’t have to. “‘A pas-|,
This column has repeatedly de-
plored such undemocratic bias ‘n
a stateowned broadcasting’ sys- tem, which has an unquestioned responsibility; to the public to present both sides of each major issue.
C.B.C. ACT AT LAST
The bias in C.B.C. commentar- ies was frankly exposed to pub- lic view when -questions in Par- laiament elicited details of the oumber of times different com- mentators had been employed. Typically, these revealed that in one respect the C.B.C. hired 2% Liberal commentators’ to 1 Con- servative.
This confirmed the old Ottawa belief that the C.B.C. consistent- ly hires commentators here from a small closed circle, whose members predomipantly express left wing liberal viewpoint. Evi- dently recognizing that such long standing clandestine political part- isanship must be curtailed, E. Bushnell, the acting president of the C.B.C., finally ordered a change in ‘‘Preview Commentary announcing that the C.B.C. could give better service on parliamen- tary news by a straight report on the previous day's events in Par- laiment.
We will probably now hear comments such as these: Leftists and misguided dogooders, in a “we wuz robbed” attitude, will
deplore ‘‘curtailment of freedom |
of opinion’’, overlooking the ob- vious fact that the freedom of anything except slanted opinion has long been curtailed by the
C.B.C. Taxpayers who have long
seen through the C.B.C. facade will renew their demands for rootandbrush overhaul of staff, and for realistic economies with our tax monies within the C.B.C.
That is why it is essential, as Opposition Leader Pearson said in the Commons a week ago, for a Evuronean free trade area to
grow imto an Atlantic free trade+ -area.
And, at the same time, the West must be careful not to shut countries like Japan out of West- ern trade. This would only drive
them into trade with the Sino-,
Soviet block, with perhaps disas- trous political consequences.
Hardy Northerners
Ottawa Citizen
get their collective teeth into that peculiarly human aspect of North
q.( ern development.
MAXIMS
A prudent man profits from personal experience, a wise one
ifrem the experience of others.
BRITISH ORGANIZATION
LONDON (AP) — Two British Members of Parliament Saturday, 4 announced formation of a new voluntary body to promote Brii- ish-Soviet contacts. President of the new organization—the Great Britain-U.S.S.R. Association — is former Labor prime minister Lord Attlee. It was announced by Sir Fitzroy Maclean, a Conserva- tive MP and Christopher Mayhew, a Labor legislator, who recently visited Russia. They are chair- man and deputy chairman of the association’s council.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (June 29, 1934) Major General A.G.L. MacNau-
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first visit to Prince Edward Is- land. Tonight he will deliver a lecture to the members of the Army and Navy Club at their club rooms and tomorrow he will inspect the new rifle range.
EP. Foley, Summerside, was ‘elected president of the P.E.I1. Pharmaceutical Society at the annual meeting held on Wednes- day at the Clifton Hotel, Sum- merside. Other officers include vice-president, W.J. Brown; sec- retary. H.L. Bethune: treasurer, E.A. Foster; council W.J. Waugh, A.J. Matheson and Leo Doucetie.
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“Rev. Dr. A.D. MacKenzie, who has during the past six montas been supplying First United Church, Sydney, N.S., returned to the city yesterday and will again begin his pastorate in Montague next Sunday, July 3rd. Dr. Mac- Kenzie and his family will take up residence in Moniague early in July. :
Remodelling of the brick .resi- dence on Kent Street, next to Simpson’s Agencies, is now und- erway. When the work is com- pleted the ground floor will con- tain two stores, one of which wiil be occupied by Jack Cameron, while the upper part will con- sist of two apartments.
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