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British Prime .\liiiistcr Sir Alec D0llEIaS‘HnnlP. accom- panied by Guard Commander Flt. Lt. .l.R. Knight. inspects
M ‘IBRITISH PRIME MINISTER lE‘AVE-S OTTAWA
RCAF honor guard at Ottawa airport before departing from the Canadian capital. Sir Alec flew to Toronto for a. speech
to the Empire Club of Canada Washing- (CP Wirephoto)
before leaving for ton.
British-Chinese Relationship Remains Still After 14 Years
By ARTHUR GAVSHON
N'D0iN tAP)——ll.' President de Gaulle had consulted Sir Alec Douglas-Home before rec- ognizing Communist China. Brit- ain's prime minister probably would have told him:
"Go ahead. it makes sense. we'd do the same if the situa- tion arose again because we think we were right. The Chi- nese ought not to be isolated. But don't expect wonders in your trade and other relations."
Britain's ‘own trail-blazing act.
of recognition by a Labor gov- ernment in 1950 aroused per- haps even more criticism from the United States than did de Gaulle‘s move last Monday.
Fourteen years of stiffly-Chl- nese dealings since then have failed to warm the British-Chl- nese relationship. No obvious rewards have come to Britain. And to this day diplomatic ties have been estab- hshed
PIONEER!-JD TRADE
Britain's trading and political links with China go 1: years. Old - time merchant-ad- ventiirers pioneered the and-spice route eastward in the early 13th century. forming a tradition that was at once ro- mantic and profitable. By L950 they had built, up a commercial
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stake in China valued at about‘
31.000.000.000.
There never was much hope in London that those invest- ments would be treated better than Communist interests al- lowed, with or without recogni- tion. Within tun years most of the areal British merchant houses, or "Hongs." withdrew. shut down, leased or transfer- red their operations.
Presence of a British diplo- matic mission in f ertheless, kept alive the chance
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that London still might win back its share of the once-lush China market, Traders have been preoccupied with that pos- sibility ever since. To a degree they have succeeded. In 1947, when Gen. Kai-shek still controlled mainland. the grand total vol- . Commonwcalt.h trade with China was valued at $440.- ‘000.000 2 it had risen to ?about $71-2,000,000. much of it purchases of grain and other emergency food supplies.
INTANGIRLES INVOLVED
No balance sheet could ac- curately show if the sum total of advantages exceeds the dis- advantages derived from Brit- ‘ain's recognition of China. or vice versa. The reason is that some of the chief gains and losses are intang‘ .
On the credit side: i l. Pek _ may well have withheld action against Hong Kong because of British recog- nition. The island-colony ac- quired by Britain in 1842 still
ctions as a vital house for China as a port of call for the great ship- iping lines. as a window looking onto the mainland and as a liv- lug reminder to the Chinese 0! what life is like in the outside world.
2 Peking's every link with the non-Communist world may well have helped to lessen ‘China's over-all reliance on the Soviet Union. The British have ?long argued that to isolate the Chinese from the ebb and flow of world opinion would also be to limit the interplay of Chl- nese-Soviet differences.
The fact of the Peking-Mos cow split was in no way in- fluenced by recognition but British and other Western and neutral diplomats have been
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able to study its development and manifestations at first-hand m the Chinese saide and so form their own assessments ot an event crucial to the evolu- ‘tion of Western po 'cy.
On the debit side:
1. London's recognition of Pe- ‘king over the years has been ,a festering source of argument with Washington. These differ- .ences. resulting from conflicting ;approaches to the inn ques- tion. occasionally have mush- roomed into crisis among them: The pressures of some U.S leaders for military action against China during the Kor- iean War an for intervention in Indochina in 1954.
. 2. London‘: acceptance of the [Communists as the lawful (do jurel, not merely the effective tde factol rulers of China did not encourage Peking to set up .full diplomatic relations. Each country is still
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charge d‘affaires. below the sta- tus of an ambassador.
Peking went out of its way to iinderplay the importance of ‘British recognition. It was our ;years before the Chinese sent tan envoy to London.
‘l Weighing all these things,
‘Britons still insist they do not [regret recognizing the Peking
regime just as they think they :
:are right in 1964 to urge that -‘Communist China he brought ‘into the United Nations.
Mining Ass’n Urges Canada Copy Tax Cut
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‘diam Metal Mining Association zurged finance Minister Waller lGordon Tuesday to copy the ,United States plan for income ltax reductions.
in a brief presented by V. C
Wanshrough of Toronto. vice- president and managing direc- tor. the association said tax cuts
. would encourage more Can- . dians to invest in Canadian de . velopment enterprises.
The association also called on
5 the government to eliminate ~ double taxation of mining com- " panieii 7 pay royalties to provincial gov- ernments. Until recently. such ' royalties were count
which are required to
allowable business expense in computing federal income tax on mining profits.
Federal withholding taxes on dividends paid to foreign own- ers of Canadian businesses dis- courage foreign investment and invite retaliation. the assocln fion said. It added that induce- ments for Canadians to invest are needed. rather than dete ents for non-Canadians.
"we feel a strong argument. can be made for the reduction of personal income tax so Canadian citizens retain under their own control a larger por- tion of income which could be directed to investment." the brief said.
“We note particularly that the United States government in enacting legislation which will reduce the tax hil cent for virtually all its tsxpsy ers. If the government of Can ads does not follow suit. the difficulties of increasing finan- cial participation in Canadian development a of retaining in this country trained Canadian scientists and others will be further aggravated."
l-‘ANNY '0BsCENE' , LONDON (AP) - A London judge ruled Monday that Fanny .Hill. the fictional memoirs of an 18th-century pleasure girl. is not be sold ere a 50 en paperback tedilion. Sir Robert Blundell, the ;‘chief metropolitan magistrate. lordered that the 171 copies po- lice confiscated from a London lbook store must be forfeited by jthe owners. The novel. written ;by John Cleland, continue: on
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male in 1 $5.88 hard-cover edi- ltlon.
8 The Guardian, tfliulottetown, Wed., Feb. 12, 1965:
PARIS tAPl —- Silk kimonos ‘from Shanghai. rice wine II-‘ukien and carved leak chests ‘from Peking were a few of the items on display Tuesday as a leading Paris department store $ 0 a month-long campaign ‘ the proénote the lszgfi cg imports
om ommunis in.
The display. sprawled over an entire floor of Printenipsu¢‘:le- pnrtment store, was ano er !indication of the practical ef- lfects for Frenchmen of Presi- dent Charles de Gaulle‘s diplo- matic recognition of mainland §Chlna.
‘ Throngs of shoppers, unusual for a Tuesday afternoon. flocked lto the store. They clustered {around tables heavy with such ‘items as carved ivory figures, ‘china teapols, ornate screens '“ and exquisitely carved furniture. gaily decorated fans, silk shirts. decorative models of Chinese tjunks, silk kimonos and hand- fhsome dressing gowns. d d . o the gourmet - min e ;‘Frenchmen, there was a bar and food counter. Shoppers lined
i_up three deep to order a m
ldarin cocktail. sip litchi-nut
wine or munch frozen kumquats
MONTREAL tCPl——A federal "’°"' C3“‘°“- provincial conference of laborgopmm To vxsrr mlflislefs Will id in Another in d i c a t i o n of the lawa March 9-10. Labor Minislei i closer ties between China and Al lan MacEachen announcedll-‘rance comes when the Peking Sunday night. The federal cab-l_Opera' opens a Paris run Feb. inet minister said the two-day‘2l. conference will examine laburl Frenchmen have been sub. standards. apprenticeship trainmjected to 3 mild propaganda ing. manpower utilization anuicampajgn in movie theatres, 1_3b01‘ ' mflflagement c0'0pe1‘a- where several minutes of foot- age devoted to China has been
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i Department Store In Paris I Features Red China Goods
.f€allli‘€d in newsreels. The film
In stresses the more positive as-
: pects of the Peking‘ regime, with shots of dam building. busy workers and a scenic tour of
.the Chinese capital.
There also are reported to be negotiations between a—French aviation firm and China for the
.possible sale of French - made Caravelle jet transports. A Chl- nese mission repreresenting the
‘oil industry recently paid a visit ‘
.to France. heralding closer co- ioperation of French technical experts with the Communists.
‘Damaged Vessel j
Is Nearing Port
HALIFAX tCPl—6earch and Rescue said late Tuesday the 160-ton longliner Jean Frances, damaged in a storm early Sun- 1 day morning. was expected to : arrive in her home port of. .Riverport. N.S. about midnight.
Stern planking was smashed in the storm which struck the .vessel northeast of Sable is- ‘land. Captain Amos Crouse and his eight-man crew managed ‘to 1 .plug the break in the hull with i a tarpaulin. _
Her pumps failed at one point i and a United States Navy hell- ;_ copier dropped new ones. Thel sea however. carried the re-~ "placements away. The crew. later managed to get the ves-i lsel's own pumps back in work-! ing order. |
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A complex subject was boil- ed down to simple terms yes- terday employees of Maritime Eiectric showed .some 300 children from rural schools throughout the Char- lottetown plant. Shown here with operator Edward Creig~
an are a group of students
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from Southport School. From left are Philip Tralnor. George MacDonald. Paul Rowe. Garry Shepherd. Jimmy Smallwood, Austin Keenan and Brian Garnhum. Today the plant will hold open house for the gen- eral public from 1.00-6.00 p. . The plant is located at tho
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corner of (fumberland and Svdney Streets. .
B.C. FLU WANES \'ANCOU\~"ER lCP)—An out-
break of influenza that in mm. lparls of British Columbia hit .1; 5 much as 20 per cent of the pop. 3 ulation ' wane, : health authorities said Monday
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