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PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, 16, 1958. .

Days Of ,Cnsus _ J It would be difficult to Overempha- size the gravity of 1 the situation in the Middle East. All signs suggest that the Iraqui army plot was cun- ningly timed and long prepared. As noted in a news despatch,lraq is the .

only Arab state legally bound to the, '

West by treaty ties as a member of

. the Baghdad Pact with Britain,,Pak—

istan, Turkey and Iran. The United

States, although not a'member of the

alliance, supports it and is a member

of its leading committeesKing Faisal

and Premier Nuri Said werepn the

eve of flying to Istanbul for a con-

ference‘ of the Asian members of the

Baghdad. Pact when" the coup was

staged. The Istanbul talks Were to

be a curtain raiser to‘ a meeting of

all five ministers‘ of the pact nations ‘ in London on July 28, with the Le— I. banese situation and the Cyprus dis-

pute as the main items to be disent-

sed. It is difficult not to interpret

the Iraq revolt as-bein‘g directly in-‘

spired by Nasser-’3 United Arab Re-

public. .

With the landings! U.S. Marines in Lebanon, Britain also has come into the picture by pledging full sup-V port for American military action. London newspapers are posing the question of possible direct British intervention in Iraq. ‘In any case the ‘ big Western Powers have taken the . initiative. President Eisenhower ' states the U.S. forces will be prompt- ly withdrawn when adequate UN. - security measures are adopted; and

that his country will support any *U. p '

N. measure “which seems to be ad- equate to meet the new situation.”

It is useless now to indulge in re- crimination, or to. speculate on what i might have been had Mr. Eisenhawer’ and his advisers been a little wiser in 1956 and taken a different attitude toward Britain’s efforts tinder Sir Anthony Eden to settle the‘suez af- fair. At that time there was clear evidence that Nasser, who had'been acting provocatively .over ' many months, was using the Kremlin’s-supr port to challenge the intErests of the West. No one disputes that fact to— day, or that N asset’s power and pres- tige is tremendously greater- than it was two years ago. The American Government realizes that indirect ag~‘ gression may indeed be ajust cause for armed intervention. Britain, in- stead of saying.“We told you so at Suez,” is giving. its support. Both countries are now working in unison, ‘ and in this fact lies perhaps the best ' hope, that their efforts will succeed.

New Bonds For Old

The mammoth refunding opera- tion announced by Finance Minister Fleming is in‘the astronomiéal fig- ure of over six billion dollars—more than 40 per cent f the national debt—and involves the offer to re- place all unmatured Victory Loan Bonds issued during the Second World War by new non-callable longer term bonds at a higher rate if interest. Full details are provided 1 the official prospectus/which may be obtained from any authorized in- vestment dealer, including branch banks. trust companies and loan companies, and of which a compre- hensive summary appeared in yes- terday’s issue. The new bonds. of the conversion loan are now being. printed, and will be ,de- livered as soon as available, com— mencing about Sept. 2. In addition, the cash needs of the Government for 'the next several months have been provided for by the sale of a short-term bond issue in the amount of $400 million to the Bank of Can- ada and the chartered banks.

The refinancing plan is primarily aimed at reorganizing the national debt with a View to putting it on a longer~term basis and reducing for the Government the amount of re- financing to be done over the next few years. Its success will depend upon the fullest public support, and the Minister has made a strong ap- peal in this connection. It has been welcomed by investment houses as a courageous and constructive step, calculated both to combat inflation and stabilize the bond market.

“The carrying out of this pro- gram during the next two months."

a significant expression of confide ence in the long-term prospects of the Canadian economy, and will by‘ its success encourage investors to take. a renewed interest in all bond markets, including the,? market for provincial and municipal bonds as ' well as Government of Canada bonds.” ,

This assurance is very import ant. The provinces and municipal- ities are feeling the financial pinch just as much as the Federal Gov- ernment, though on a smaller scale. .Nothing should be done to interfere with their borrowing facilities for necessary purposes. Mr. Fleming’s statement, above quoted, will be an important factor in insuring the suc- cess of the federal scheme.

Convmcmg Ewdence

Douglas Jung. the first Canadian of Chinese ancestry to become' a member of ' Parliament, might have been, a little indiscreet—Lwe are not 'sure‘that he was—when he told a conference of NATO youth leaders in Paris that Canadian delegations to Russia. were hand-picked and that Russian visitors to this country often are not allowed to see the places and people they would“ likeyto see. But that was not the reason behind Sen- ator Farris’ contemptuous reference. to Mr. Jung as “this Chinaman”. The real reason was Mr. Jung’s great. victory over the Liberal machine in Vancouver East in the last two gen—g era] elections, a victory- that Mr. Farris finds annoying—understand- ably and, evidently, an excuse for succumbing to a. bad case of ill man— ners. ‘, l . ' -

Mr. Jung is as much a Canadian citizen—probany just as useful a ones—as is Senator Farris, As a cit- izen, he has every’right to express his views when travelling ‘abroad.

. Should, these views tend to get him

‘.into difficulties with his party col— leagues, that is a], risk he must be prepared to take—and, in this in- stance, was prepared to take. For- tunatel-y,‘~ . judging from Statements made in‘the Commons by Prime ‘Mlil-r ' ister Diefenbaker,and other Constr- vative speakers, no Such.risk"Wash involved. The resentment with which _ Senator Farris’ remarks have ,been- received all across Canada is one of . the most convincing bits of evidence for the vitality and wholesiomenoss of Canadian democracy that have ap-. peared for some time. "“ '

EDITORIAL: NOTES 1 The stage is set today at Summer- side. for the third annual Lobster Carnival, which promiscs to establish anew record in attendance and en-

jOyment“. ‘A fine program of sports

and entertainment has been arrang— ed, including a race for lobster fish- ing boats which is particularlyap— propriate to a carnival of this kind. The Prince County capital is to be commended upon its initiative in pro- viding this grand midsummer enter— ’ tainment, which will be welcomed; both by our citizens and holiday vis- itors. ‘ x 7 ¥ 4! or Couch grass, the gardener’s most

_' formidable foe, has at last found

its match, accordingtoofficials of ‘the Kentville, N.S. Experimental. Farm. They report that the chemicall Dalaponr (sold under the trade name Dowpon) when ‘used as a spray-43 pounds to 100 gallons of water—and proper conditions, will kill almost 100 per' cent of the weed’s roots. The“ spray can be; used either spring. or fall, provided the grass is growing actively at the time. Cultivation of the soil can be safely undertaken tWo weeks after spraying. ‘

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Since he came to office Mr. Diefen- = baker has reduced the number of Senate vacancies to six. This is a move in the right diréction, but it is no more than a start. What re- mains to be done now, suggests the Winnipeg Free Press, is for the Prime Minister to implement one of his election promises. That was that he would.call a conference of the federal and provincial governments, and, “on the basis of its recommen- dations, make the Senate an effec— tive instrument of parliamentary government." ’

4- 4 t , “Reading the transcripts of those press conferences given by the press relations officers of President Eisen- hower and Prime Minister Diefen—. baker,” says the Ottawa Journal, “‘made us wonder whether such con— ferences have any real value at all—

' whether, in fact, they don’t hold pos-

sibilities of more harm than good. And this’is not to criticize the press officers themselves; they do their best. It is simply that the system of communication is wrong; capable of creating too many misunderstamt

says Minister, “will constitute

ings and false dimensions of fact.”

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a, liot, the 68 year old Quebec Sena-

, Hill for the old w'orld courtesies

‘ cian's ‘wife by some unexpected piece. of flattery. Perhaps the

err on The Hilliwere-in his valle- dict‘ory to his former chief, the ‘

‘ batonnier. of the Quebec. 'Bat- Some years ago he was, in his

‘ totind to be suffereing from his-

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’ MANKIND’S DECISION

.COTT’AWA REPORT -

By Patrick

OTTAWA ,— Jean~Francois Pou-

.tor. is one of the doughtiest po— liticians in our Parliament. He 'was first elected to represent the Temiscouata riding in 1904, and held it continuously until he was appointed to . the Senate three years ago. His father and his grandfather had likewise repre sented Temiscouata in Ottawa.

He is known around Parliament

and compliments which flow read- ily off his gallant tongue. Many ,a ‘humdrum day has been made 'pe’rfect for many a bored politi-

harshest words he has ever spok-

nght Hon. William. Lyon Macs kenzie King, who in the glowing «bonhomzmle of his last day in Parliament heard the praisevand eulogy from political friend and, foe alike broken only by a bitter attack from Jean-«Francois. u, Senator'P-ouliot has also enjoy- ed a successful career as a bar— rister; attaining the eminence of

"Senator Poulioi’s Question

Nicholson 1 -

', Special Correspondent for The Guardian

nicipsl Code. Currently, he is en- gaged In the stupendous job of proposing revisions of the Quebec civil code of law, commissioned for this purpose by his political .foe Premier ‘Duplessls.

OPERATION SAUSAGE MILL

Often his parliamentary inter- ventions are cloaked in whimsy. But always they have a deep in- ner meaning beneath the surface flippancy. '

A recent example of this con- cerns what he calls “Operation Sausage Mill." He asked a string of eighteen questions in the Sen- ate. This turned out to concern the work of. a trio of civil ser- vice officials with the almost bur- lesque~act names of Willms. Bills- land and Shadd. ,

“Is there a Public Records Committee?" asked the irrepres- sible senator. Yes, and it consists of twelve. members. headed by a Cabinet Minister and includlnz representatives nominated by six other Cabinet Ministers and other important official, and V private bodies. ‘ ' ' .

‘Operation Sausage Mill' one of the duties of that commit- tee?" continued the Senator. Straight-faced, the Leader of

own words, the author of the Mu-

“In the lost 12 months I’have seen no fewer than five patients", writes a correspondent in the cur-. rent British Medical Journal, “who. had collapsed with sub- sternal pain and shock .while they were watching televisioan

Well, now. ,“substennal” apart one-can understand the pain and shock. We have known the odd twinge ourselves. But apparently the good doctor’s patients were suffereing from no ordinaryysort of revulsion. He goes on to ela- lborate clinically. '

“The link between these eas- es,” he writes, “was that each was a man who had eaten a hea- vy meal shortly before the at-

sat down in a low chair to,walbh the program.” (Which program is carefully left unspecified.) Moreover, one of the patients,

tus hernia, “had injudiclously consumed two bottles of a pop- ularofizzy drink in quick succes—

tack commenced, and had thanv

the Government in the Senate,

"Sub‘slerncl Pain And Shock”

The. Manchester Guardian . ..

ill." _

Now to the“ diagnosis: “The viewer has a tendency to select a ‘comfortable’ armchair which is low and deep from front to back, and the seat sometimes even slopes backward so that the 'but-tocksere" below the level of the knees. This position is me— chanically unsound. for It is {bound to load to upward pres- sure on the diaphragm, particu- larly when the stomach is over- fulfi’ And so the prescription: “The old -. fashioned. straight backed chair with a firm seat is

and “it would encourage proper seating if screens were set con- siderably higher than is usual at present, with the center of the iscreen at least 42 inches from the floor.” ‘

So there you are! No more slumping into an armchair with a seat that actually slopes back- ward, after your steak and chips and Guinness or whatever. View-

sion shortly before he was taken I Muggerldge - Fred Nas

The man whose job it. was: once upon a time to make B-ri- tons laugh, has succeeded only in making Australians scowl.

Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge, a former editor of Punch and not- ed British commentator, has step ped suddenly into the role of lo- cal prophet of doom.

At present touring Australia. He has looked at what he calls “the vast, drly, indomitable interior?’ of the continent, and he does not like what he sees.

In fact,, he has been so pessi- mistic about the na‘fon’s future that newspapers have had a flood of letters attacking hirr as I gloom merchant. One writer sug~ gested departing Mir. Muggeridge back to his native England from where he could watch Australia’s precarious future in safety.

In the recent broadcas‘ which incensed so many people, Mr. Muggeridge actually told Austra- lians a few home truths they are too often apt to forget. Perhaps he was somewhat too pessimis- tic. But at least he was honest. The Australians who attacked Mr. Muggeridge most vigorous- ly were the very ones who time and again refuse to face reali- ties. .

REMOTE OUTPOST

Mr. Muggeridge sees Australia

as a remote and rather forlorn

country a gathering of some 10 million Europeans. mostly on the fringe of a vast "outmcnl which geographically belongs to Asia."

European outpost. He called the2

ing, as the audience research peo-

On Australia

Globe and Mail, Toronto

sal in the en lonelier” Mr. Muggeridige asked. “What will hag pen to

them if, as a result of the great stirring among Asians today, they find themselves confronted with the sort of inundation which the

Vance not been checked, would assuredly have undertaken.”

Thousands among Mr. Muggcr— idge‘s radio audience must surely have felt chilly, despite their car Iy winter fires, when this blunt Briton went on to say: “Honesty compels me to admit, that I have sometimes seen this country. ev- en the great city of Sydney. as only a kind of temporary camp which no one has bothered to make permanent.

“It has seemed to me that a holocaust of history could sweep it away, not even leaving behind substantial ruins as the Romans did in the Middle East.”

Like so many visitors to‘ this land, like the thousands of stud- ents and travellers fro mAsia and for that matter, like many bhilhkw lug Australians, Mr. Muggeridge noted the fantastic contrast. be- tween this continent and the na- tions to the North of it. POPULATION FACTOR

He points out that India's and China's joint populations increase annually by Australia‘s present total population. In Australia. a single sheep is allotted an area §which in Asia must support a 3 family of people.

1 And like. a section of Australian, strategists. Mr. Muggeridge uron~

' er,

far more suitable for viewing,”-

Japanese, had their victorious ad—.

replied “The term "Sausage Mill’ is unknown in the federal opera- tions."

SAVING PRECIOUS PAPERS

What the Senator is getting at, he told me is that Messers. Willms Bilsland and Shaddore in charge

of an incinerator an Tunney’s Pasture; beside the Ottawa Riv- where they a re combing through a staggering 62 miles of shelving and 325,000 document boxes. with the intention of des- troying or consigning to the junk man no less than ninety per cent of these old records of Canada and Canadian affairs. .

Thousands of bound Volumes In- cluded among these doomed re- cords contain land grants and similar documents, of immense value to the Prairie provinces be- cause they cover mining rights.

Senator, Pouliot fears that they may be inadvertently destroyed by persons who do not appreciate their ‘vnlue. Similarly other docu- ments, of immense potential va- lue to future historians and bio- grapherS, may be burned by Mes- srs. Willms, Bilsland and Shadd who, although they all three pos- sess university degrees. may ov- erlook their importance.

“I hope,” said Jean-Francois, "that the Government will not

‘ folldw ‘the‘example of Omar. the

Caliph, who destroyed and burn- ed the library of Alexandria be— cause it contained many books that were contrary to the Mos- lem faith.”

ple will tell you. Is a serious bus- iness, and if you dare to embark on it [after anything more sub-d .1 stantial than two dry crackers and a glass of chilled'c-abbage water, substernal pain and shook may well be yours.

QUESTION OF SEATING.

Then there is the question of seating. After extensive experi- ment, we have found that some- thing like the right viewing an— gle can be achievod by placing the television set on the mantel- piece and watching from s rath-

the first eight volumes of either the Encyclopedia Britanlca or Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Alternatively, you can fasten the set. to the ceiling, screen downward, and lie on your back on the hearth rug.

Or silim viewers might man- age by placing the set, screen uppermost, on the floor and/1y— jug above it, face downward, on the table. (The only disadvan- tage of the latter position is that while [the diaphragm is unusually well supported. it may cause a rush of blood to the eyeballs, which is not only dangerous but positively unsightly.)

up her present connections with Europe; “British power was the heartbeat which kept the blood circulating to'this remote limb," he said. .“Now British power is dwindling, with the danger that the limb ,will. atrophy. The, Suez Canal. Ceylon, India. Burma. Sin- gapore ~— one by one the links are going. ’And the few remain- ing ones like Cyprus and Malta and Aden are being hard press- M]!

Mr. Muggeridge told Australia that an admiral who had prom- ised them that British policy was to maintain the Singapore Naval Base in full operation “should have his head examined.” PROVED USELESS

He stressed that the base had proved useless in the last war.

Chinese- looming in Singapore, the pos- sibilities of maintaining it were nil. “Britain could no more de- fend Australia today than Austra- lia could defend Britain.”

He t11 n attacked those Austral— ians who had developed what he called a “mother. or at any rate. a Queen Mother complex” toward Britain. “These Australians talk quaintly about the British Em- pire; they cling with touching and tragi-comic fidelity to their Britishness as Don Quixote did to his rusty armor. They sit in their clubs and dream of Piccadilly Circus, unaware that all this has no relevance to Australia's pres» ent situation."

Mr. Muggeridge urged Austrl lens to put aside sucl thoughts. and to establish instead a valid

relationship with that part of the 1 world in which they actually 1W- ed. “In this part of the world

“Won‘t these Europeans get ev~. dens whether Australia can keep , where Australia exists," hundreds‘

‘er high kitchen chair mouted on .

and t at with a near- Communistj dominated Government

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