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TUESDAY. MAY l. l9“

Russia And Ourselves

‘The dramatic intervention of Molotov at the San Francisco Conference, where he practically dom- inated the (lisciissiotis from the outset, brings home tn n5 here the necessity of studying our ftit- ure relations with the Soviet republics. For this PIIYPOSB we have pleasure in quoting from l receitt discussion by the Llaiiadiaii -'\550'€iill10fl for _\(l\lll l-Idiicatiou given over CBC:

lit-fore the war, the Cnioii of Soviet Swialist RCpllbllCS was a far-off country where many strange experiments were taking place. To mum those exticrinietits ivere obnoxious: t0 others. ivouilcrful. To most of its they were simply itnkncuvn. \\'ith all the propaganda in the papers, it was difficult to know what to think. Since Hitler's invasion of the USSR. in _luiie, 194i, most of us have changed our

tuiuds. We have seen tlte Nazi hordes receive their first rcsoiiitdiitg dcfcat by the Red /\i'iti_\'. \\'c have seen the unforgettable defence of Mos- cow, of Seyastopol and Stalingrad. Now. l"

thc third vear aftcr the invasion of Russia, we see the German armies beitig pushed backward in ilismal retreat. \\'hat this has meant to the Russian people iii stiffcritig and casualties. in the loss of their honics and iii the destruction cf their cities. is something we cannot forgct. Moil of us are now conscious tltat along with the cotir-

i ant-nus qualities nf the people of stich countries as llritziin and China, the courage of the Soviet pvoplc is one of tht- iuziiii rcaspiis why wc in (janaila are safe iroiu the .\xis today. They have accomplishcd great things and out of that ac- cotiiplishniciit a ucw relationship with Soviet l\'Il>~l;\ is being horn.

The iinportziiicc of Ihttt relationship is well (VitlJllCtTl by thc interest that Hitler took iii it. Hc and his‘ folloivcrs knew that now the

utily way to escape defeat was to sow discord be- twcuit the llJl'CL'.~ of the liast and those of the \\'<-~t. .\lllll(tll_\' lidcit has dcscribcd this, speak- ing" on the 25th RIIIIl\'CI'SE\l'_\' of the Red Army:

"Witt-re Hitler's gcncralshit) has failed, the wilt-s of (iucbbcls are now in play: (‘very ef- fort has bet-n imidc and will be made. to foster sii-piciou and cncotirugc dissctisioii between the 1\llic~ .\ part of this puppet show is played by thc hogcv of liIIl>llC\‘lSIIl, but wc (lo not fiitd it hard to Yfitilfltflllltc‘ this ltighly coloured figure. llc is an old fricnd—a survival from the earliest dzti- of the .\ zi rcgiitic."

The fir-t fttct that tnust he noted is that Cati- ada and Soviet Union are neighbours. \\'here once the .\t'c‘IiL' was an IIIIIICIICIFQDTC harricr and Russia ivzis fur ziivay on thc other side of littr- (it-c. \\".' IIHII.‘ face cztch other across the l‘olc. StcftYiti-oii, tht- great .\rctic explorer, has shown how Soviet dcvclnpiiicttt in her northlaiid and Cnintdiziii devclnptiiciit iii ours are bringing its (‘IilhlJIllllY close together. .'\ttyb0d_v who doubts this should ltiolt at thc world on a globe rather than i-n a fhu |Il2I]) ztiid they will sec how close

wt- :trt-. The aeroplane has made it possible to llJl\(' tl?l'(‘\'l UIIIIICCIIIIII bctwccn Ottawa and Allyr-Cfl“. .\< modern invention advances. tliis

DPIIFIIV“ will hccotnc increasingly important. lliu Ciiiuiilzi is huiittrl up with the L R. in

an oven more important wa_v. lt is now clczti" t?)

must (Iitiztrliziiis that ztll itzitious itiiist work to-

gcthz-i‘ to prcvciit future wars and depressions. lii the ztclticvciiiciit of that world ordcr. the Sttvict lYiiiun obviously" will play an intportttiit pnrl. lt covers 1t sixth of the worlths surface.

lt has a population 0f zipproxintatcly I70 mil‘- lioiis. lt is both a litiropcan and an Asiatic power. .\fter the last two and a half vczirs, its strength itccrls no illustration. .\ world urdcr with-tut the l'..\'..\'.l\'. ivould llllftll)’ be a world order. .\ll the Cnitcd_.\'utioiis lcadcrs from Churchill and Roosevelt on have rccttgiiizetl this.

Quite apart from what we want or do not

until. the l'..'<..\'.l\'. is ztiid ivill ht: a f.'tcti_n~ of puwcrliil intportaiicc iii the post-ivai‘ \\'Ill'lll. T0 tll\l'(‘t{lll‘<l it is iniprtssihlc.

llut inure than thc inert- iicccssities of wurld cn-opcrzititzii iiiiitcs us with l\'iis.~ a. 'l'ravcllcr.i in thc Sovict bnioii. stich as Wcntlell Willlvie. _ln~t-|>lt Darius and nitircrccciitiythe .\rclthishoti of York, have pointctl out that, though niztiiy of our iiiciltods attd many 0f otii' traditions ziiay dif- fer. the goals of our societies have much in com- mon. Tht-v [mint out that the steps taken i thc Soviet Union since it)i7-—the iticreasi! (‘du- cation. thc rising standard of living, ‘the care for the vouugcr generation-are the same goals wt- oursclvcs are striving towards. As \\'illki\: and Davies have said. this is not to argue that our iticthotls nf achicviug thcsc goals should he the same. lltit they fccl we both have the cont- mon objective of the four freedoms.

.\lativ of us may remember the speech of Churchill the evening that Hitler invaded the Soviet lftiinn. lii that speech. he stated un- equivocallyt that (ireat Ilritztiii stood at Russia's Iidc. Since thcn ti policy of co-operation has grown. ln'_lul_v, 194i. the U.S.A., not yet in the war, extended Lend-Lease aid to Russia.

After the USA. had entered the war. the US _

SR. joined with the other free nations in sign- ing the Declaration nf the Utiitcd Nations, pledg- ing themselves to the defeat of lllllPflSITl and Subscribing to the Atlantic Charter. Finally. in lune. I042. Great Britain and the USSR. Iigned a 20-year treaty of mutual assistance. \s Foreign Commissar Molotov said about this reaty M the time:

"The present treaty also determines the co'm-

"in line of action 0f the Soviet Union and

mt Britain after the war. Tllf‘ fact that this

in based on mutual military and economic assist- ance against possible further aggression on the part of Germany and is intended to insure the sectirity and ivell-being of the peoples of Eur- ope, speaks for itself."

No such treaty was signed by Canada or by the U.S.A.

Despite this growing trust, however, element: of old suspicions were still there. In the Anglo- Aptericati world, there wcre still those who were afraid of bolshcvism and looked for sinlsffl‘ mo- tives in the Soviet Union. On the other hand, it was not easy for the U.S.S.R. to forget the wars of intervention against her by England, 11.5., Canada and other countries at the con- clusion of the last war. Also, as one writer put it: "With more than ten million dead and losses running into thousands every day, it is not in- human that the Russians view everything from one angle; Iiow to shorten the war and, there-

Tliere were moments when the Soviet Unioti thought the Second Front ivas slow in coming. The central strategy of the United Nations seem- ed to exclude the Soviet Union. All the United Nations boards were strictly Anglo-American. All the conferences were between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Since the autumn of i943, much 0f this suspicion and distrust has been eliminated. Bri- tain. the U.S.S.R. and the U.S..'\. have come closer together than ever before. This partner- shin will naturally bring Canada into closet connection.

Still At War

The general strategic picture in the West re- mains the same as last week, but there are three areas with widely different tactical interest: In \\"est Holland, the Germans are fighting a de- laying action of very little military importaticc against British and Canadian troops. Their aim is not so mtich to deny us ports (Dutch ports are almost the same distance from the front as Antwerp) as to produce the maximum amount of chaos and misery for the Dutch people iii the hope that this way they will create insoluble problems for the Allies.

In the Emden-Bremeu-Hamburg area, the Get-titans are also fighting fanatically against the British. Their purpose in this case is a military one-to deny its the use of ports. They have fought to prevent us doing this all along the North African coast from El Alaiiieiii to 'l"unisia. all along the French and Belgian costs front Cacti to Antwerp. Thcv ltave always lost. they will lose this time. The fighting is very hard for the stakes are high. But the British have consistently had to deal with the toughest resistance whereof the enemy is cap- able.

In the South Gcrtnany the French First Arnrv and the American Seventh and 'l‘hird Arntics are making nonsense oitt of the Nazi plan to hold the large redoubt. Pockets of Ljernians are being cut off cg the Black Forest and South east of Stuttgart (this always happeits when Allied armour really gets going) now that the Danube has been crossed it looks as though the south German rcdoubt will consist only of the llavarian Alps.

-EDITORIAL NUTES-

Hon. john

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Bracken is expected here ticxt

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The 8th Victory Bond campaign is booming -—let's go over the top early. ‘lt ‘l! i! 1R

The lialitiiis have [ilueltcd up courage at last —-;is the Nazis were (lrivcit otit by tljic Allies. The w:it"ll soon he over for them. w: 1- * a _

The radio “spot" aimottnccinciits are so un- '- tblc. that people have gut into the way of dc- clziring "we won't helicvc it till we sec it in the newspapers."

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The Rt. Hon. .\lbert Victor Alexander, C.I'I., l".(.'.. .\l.l'. British First Lord of the Admiralty, horn this date i885; son of an artisan engineer; cdttcntcd at St. tieorgcs 'l'cchuical School. Bris- tol. becoming a mctnber of the staff of the lidu- ctttion Committee of the Somerset County Conti- cil: for tiiaiiy years a Baptist lay preacher: scrv- ed in the army hcing gazetted out as Cupttiitt; clccietl Labour .\l.l'. for Sheffield in i924, lic- coining; Parliamentary Secrctary' to the Board of 'l't'adc in the first Labour Ciovernitient two years later; aptxiintcil First Lord of the .\d- 1IIil'Illl_\' in 13129-51 in the Second Lilllltlli‘ tjov- t-riiniciit: was sccrclary‘ of the Parlizitiicittairy Commission of the Cooperative Cotigrcss. and delegate to the Parliamentary Conference in I930; reappointed First Lord of the Atlmiralty in the National tiovernmciit, i940. I- at r w

it is now disclosed that during Britainls dark- est days of the war plans were made to move Parliament from London if itecessary. Under tun‘ nf several alternatives meiribcrs would have gone to Stratford-cni-Aion and used the Shake- speare Memorial Theatre as a meeting place. _lt also was disclosed that Parliament several times left its customary assembly hall tinder Big Ben during the (latigcr period ivhen planes or flying bombs were striking London. 'Thc members ivalkcrl a few hundred yards to the more sub- stantial church house where they conducted busi- ness as usual. i‘ l I i!

The first surrender of German shipping took place Saturday‘, hut to a neutral power, Sivitzcr- land. The Siviss report said: "Last night the entire fierman Lake (Ionstance flotilla stationed at Lindau. consisting of nine ships. ailllffl into the harbors of Argon. Romanshorn and Stein after previous tir-gotiations with the Siviss au- thorities. The flotilla will remain here until the entire German coast nf Lake Constance has been occupied by the Allies. After the occupa- tion operations have been completed the ships

'|l\' opt-rates for a treriod of twenty years and

will rclnrn to their harbors. The ships' crews

fore, the cost in human lives." (Harriet Moore). That

Notes By The Way

PHIIIOH-lIIVDlVQI risks. You don't steal second base and keep one foot. on first-Gait Reporter.

. German: continue h Illlll that they are the most m dontmd people on earth, but they are wronz. ‘rbe rest. of the world now under- stands them perfectly and recog- nlzes them for what they are. and that. will not be cod for the Nails. —Nlllll‘l Fail: view.

During n recent Illa In Hull. Que, a fireman was reported to have "stayed on duty Saturday 1f- ternoon for 30 hours." As we ob- se to a friend this mornlng. the days are beginning tn dnw 0UC.—P¢i¢!‘l30l'O\IIh Examiner.

There wlll be lborlf 1,000 new‘. paper and radio correspondents at. the! San“ Ftrancisfip Coxpgrenpe. s n app: n; , While all Amerlcan newsoklgers have long fought for open d Ioni- acy In all these conferences, we must: recognize that the free-and easy t hnlques of American press and radio coverage call for self- restraint and self-I ‘ re_ sponsIbIIItIes In times like the present.

The strong meat of honest III:- tory Is not. suitable for their ten- der understandlniz. Consequently history must be falsified for their use. and as few adults ever read history they carry this falsified version of their national story with them through life. and be- come huf and bluster about

atrlotlsm whenever It Is chal- engerL-Peter‘ rough Examlner.

A memorial In more than 56,000 British civilians killed b enemy action during the war Is be put

In London's Westminster Ab- bey. the Imperial War Graves Commission announces. The mem- orial has been designed by Sir Charles Peers, the architect, who was formerly chief inspectator of ancient monuments. It will placed In Sf. George's Chapel, near tihe tomb of the nation's last war glnilclnovitn warrior.—l.nndon Dally

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Congratulations to the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus In adopting-and promistrnz to en- ’ rule under

st and fire marshals watch for light- ed cigars or cigarettes, such as Is believed to have caused the disas- ter at Hartford last July. But smokers must. be watched; some will “take a chance" and others

not waited for he law to act. And it Is to be hoped that; the fine old organization can take the road again, In spite of its series of trou- bles-Chrlstlan Science .

The latest resolution of the use- ful Pacific Northwest. Development Association indicates a widespread misunderstanding of the purposes of the San Francisco conference of the United Nations. This associa- tion. which Is doing excellent wort‘ In cementing economic yes between British Columbia and the adfoln- Ing states of Oregon and Wash- ington. has urged that at Sari Parnctsco Canada and the United States reach new agreements cov- ering the development of Joint fisheries. Fish are not on the pro- gramme of the San Francisco con- ference. for one specIfIc purpose only-do create an international organiza- tion which can preserve ivorid peace. But apparentl In ma

quarters it Is regarde as a gen- eral peace conference which will discuss and adjudicate all the pol- Itlcal problems of the world. It‘ such problems, apart from the crea- tion of collective securltv are ex- excluded from the agenda of the conference-Winnipeg Press Press.

around a grocery counter In a B city store. After wartime England they felt they were In a land flow- ing with milk and honey. and thought of ways of sharing It with their families at home. Such rate and almost forgotten delicacies as steaks. milk shakes. bananas and grapes could obviously out be sent; home as Itaupy memor s of a gastronomic El Dorado tn labori- ously penncd letters. but there were plenty of other less erlshable de- lights. WlIlClI could packed up and posted. In cockney twaniI and Scot burr the slow speech of Suffolk, and the IIIt of Wales. they ordered jam and dried frults and sweets. and other delicacies as rare In Britain as snow In Libya. An Australian girl stimdlitg near- by heard them asking for sugar to send hotnc, only to be told they could not. buv It without ration coupons. which they dlrl not: have. The girl called the shop assist- tint_ handed over tier ration book. and mid; "Take whnf. you can out of that. and glve them 80m‘? Sil- gar.“ Then she Iiurz-Ied out of the ship, wont. back to the city office where she worked. cvllefllfll fill me sugar coupons she could from office friends, and took them back tn the-shop. The shon assistant’ apnorttoncrl them between the sailors. whose gratitude ivas_evl- dently as rzcnulne as It. was iocal. "where's the lady, miss. so we can thank her?" sald several voices. But. their anonymous benefactress had izouc uletigi back Io hei- work. ._Syducy Australia) Herald

‘Ilellum. the Inert no that won't hurtr has become so plentiful that the United States bureau of mines wishes Industry would find new uses for It. The bureau's flvt plants are producing more than twenty- flve times the pre-war volume nf heltum. which s extracted under government monopoly. Industrial and medtcal uses have trtplfll l" two ears (250000 cubic feet. a mont In I944 compared with 88.- 000 cublc feet a month In i042) but this still Is only half of pre-wnr output. Mtlltarv uses nf helIIIm nre mainly riaviii for bitmw U" submarine patrol. to UNIT!" "bends" In men working under nigh air pressure and In escapes from submarines. but the army uses the kits. too. I over the world, Its meteorologists usett In radiosonde balloons making weather observa- tlons. The btgtzest. problem Is what to do with helium when the vnu‘ ends. Experiments are chiefly In etd of hetinre welding. Mal- "iestum and some alloys burst- In lame unless welded In l smother- ng helium blanket. Similar In uanket-s may result. In better tech- ntq In kit-n: steel, where heavy oxidation can be reduced. Other tests are being made to de- termine the value of helium In the preserving of canned foods. Medl- cai useg Include tmethettcs where l small amount of hellum prevents

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MOTHER'S DAY IN MAY

Bin-Each yen- nt this tIme n the gnu In the meadow swwl freoh and Item Ind the birds In the trees sing the Joy of spring I stand by the sea shore and watch the rippung waves come In to IIck at. the shore Itne and spend their strength aghast the bank and fall. buck to the rolllng ocean

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Hero u often before the thoughts of Mother's Day come again fresh to my mind; thoughts of who Mother really Is?

To me she Is the one who shaped and formed my thoughts for the future years. throne who shouted me the starlight sky at. night and the glory of the evening sunset and the true meaning of what the passion of the sunset meant as we watched it waste and fade lit the close of another day.

She Is the one who taught me from child-hood to be honest and rupect others no matter what their station of Ilfe might be. She Is the one who taught. the meaning of the lovely month of May and Mother's Day, and from her I learned to Iovc God above all thing-s and all thlng: made by Him. Yes, she Is the one who taught me the true meaning of mother's love that never dies, never grows cold no mutter what we may do.

And happy rim 1 u the years pass to think I have never for- gotten for n moment all ‘those things about Mother dear.

Today as never before Mother's Day stands as a beacon light. In a world blackened and butchered and

b9 sprayed with blood from the hearts

of young men who left their smothers to answer the coil of "Y.

Nothing but the clean hearts of young men taught at mother's knee could stand back to the wall and fight, stop, and conquer a cursed race driven by an antl- ChrLst. that. the Master himself foretold centuries and centuries ago would come one day tn an effort to conquer the world and bring terrible suffering.

Today as never In history mothers are heartbroken all over the world, as clay by day their

_ sons make the supreme sacrtflce:

but one Joy comes when we see so many in the battle lines rememb- ering their mothers wlth flowers and souvenirs.

There are many of its who wltl look again this Mother's Day Into empty rooms and see mother's clothes hanging on the walls un- disturbed as In years past and mtu again Iier soft voice.

But we will think of her as the rippling wavw come In and hear. her voice in the murmur of the

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the trials "ahead.

wind as If seeking again the door which taught Grandma. this trick. tIfe that Is closed to wnrn u: No one seems to know. The Im- portant trnng Is that her discovery,

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more than 250 years had fits on the human race.

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_ Removal of fear is the privilege and duty of insurance. It was the fearful conse- quences of the Great Fire of London in _ that gave birth to insurance. If. is fear of fin- ancial loss by fire, accident, and other unpre- dlctable and costly events,_that _is_ the main spring of the Insurance business, initiated and nurtured by private enterprise. and Whlch f"