ing a second look at the Fleming bud- _ get, and their comments, in many _ eases, are much more favorable than one would expect from earlier press feleases. Liberal commentators, of | course, are pointing out that the tax _ ifcreases are inconsistent with Con- | gervative pre-election pledges; but | the fact is that all the parties—and » particularly the Liberals—were pro- mising tax cuts and higher spending oh works projects as a means of com- bating the recession in the last elec- tion campaign. This course, accord- ' ing to Hon. Mr. Pearson, was inher- | ent in his party’s policy of “cyclical | budgeting,” and he even went so far as to propose a moratorium on taxes in order to meet the unemployment challenge at that time. t As Hon. J. Angus MacLean point- _-ed out in his address in Parliament

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leum products. The U.S. Department of Defenses has often emphasized the strategic importance of oil re- serves in Canada, Colombia and Venezuela. “Now we discriminate these friendly countries’ markets, ignore our stated policy to help our friends by trading with them.” The import quotas are scaled on a sliding percentagé basis that gives

.the smallest refineries 12 percent

of ordinary imports and the large ones only 4 per cent. So the unwise quota system hurts some big oil

free world security. The Milwaukee paper, after summing up Mr. Nicker- son’s arguments, asks: “Can anyone -—unless a wholly domestic producer who wants*to keep prices up—-think of a single argument for the quota system?” The Canadian Government should: keep protesting against this imposition so far as it affects: Can- adian interests. There is evidently a growing feeling in the U.S. that our complaints are fully justified.

Report From Hungary

Little publicity has attached to a report which was presented recently to the secretary general of the Uni- ted Nations, yet it is one well deserv- ing of headlines. It is from the chair- man of the International League for the Rights of Man, and it deals with what happened to many of those

on Friday,-the Fleming budget ful- | yungarians who escaped from their

fils government policy of taking ac- tion quickly to head off economic troubles and yet taking care not to go too far and so produce bad after effects. Who can quarrel with this statement? Certainly not the Liber- al leader; for this is cyclical budget- ing in practice—not in theory as was propounded at the hustings.

Perhaps the best known Liberal fMewspaperman in Canada is Mr. Bruce Hutchison, author of a biogra- phy of the late Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King and an authority on Lib- eral party history. In the current is- sue of the Financial Post Mr. Hut- chison commends the Conservative Finance Minister for the courageous course he is now taking.

“The budget and its reception by the public,” he writes, “are more im- portant psychologically than finan- cially. They mean.that as a people | ‘we are at last facing up to the facts

of life. It was about time. The exact

figures of the budget don’t matter.

The vital change in our affairs is

that the aberrations of recent times

have been recogpized as such, that after a long detour the return to fin- ancial sanity has begun. To be sure, it has only begun. We are a long way yet from a balanced budget, even in

a year of good business, and still fur-

ther from the day when we can start

to. pay off some of our new debt. But in the most significant passage of his budget speech Mr. Fleming an- nounces that at the proper time he will collect more money than he ‘spends and use the surplus to reduce debt. Courage in a finance minister could hardly go further.”

This still leaves the Conservatives

Open to criticism for. their own at-

tacks on the former government for

doing what Mr. Fleming promises to do now. But it effectively disposes of the claim that the new -taxes were unjustified, and that a ‘sound

- budgeting policy is not now being fol- lowed. The recession called for em- ergency fiscal measures which are no longer necessary. Corrective action has been taken, and new treatment prescribed for the convalescing pat- ient. The doctors—that is, the pol- | 4ticians—are not really -quarreling over the treatment; they are just ar- guing about who should get the cre- dit for making the diagnosis.

Unpopular Oil Quotas * ' President Eisenhower’s mandat- ory quota system for oil imports—’ which penalizes Canada among oth- er countries—doesn’t seem to make sense even to some of the big USS. oil companies. The Milwaukee Jour- nal quotes Albert L. Nickerson, pre- sident of the huge Socony Mobil Oil Co. Inc., as stating that the oil re serves of the United States now re- t-only one-sixth of world re- serves, “vet under the quota system we must how dip more deeply inte those reserves and ignore huge sup plies available elsewhere.” _| : American firms, Mr. Nickerson points out, have invested large sums pf money to develop oil reserves in _ friendly countries. This they did in part because * of recognition of the _ reduced share of world reserves ex _ 4sting in the United States. Oil ‘thus

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and returned under Communist pled- ges of security.

Every means of pressure and blandishment was used to induce the

thousands who fled the country to re- |

turn, and in the course of the next two years many did. Some were just plain homesick and gave in to the exile’s normal desire for repatriation. Some were unable to find a way to make a living. Some were disappoint- ed in their hopes for resettlement in the free world. Many made the re- turn trip in a desperate. need to see their families. It mattered little what their motives, in the end.

For a time the returnees were used well—for propaganda purposes. Many were persuaded to tell lies

about their experiences as expatria- tes, and some of them broadcast in-

credible stories. They were treated as heroes. But when their usefulness ended, the Communists did \ what Comnfinists always do—meted out revenge and punishment. Some 6,000 of those who believed the Communist promise of welcome and forgiveness have been murdered, jailed or taken to such distant places of exile as So- viet Siberia.

This is no piece of counter-pro- paganda fiction. The report of the International League for the Rights of Man is the result of painstaking investigation, complete with affi- davits. Just what the United Na- tions secretary proposes to do with it we do not know. File it, probably: There will be a few pious expressions of indignation, or at least of regret, if it comes up for discussion. But so far as Communist. Hungary is con concerned the case is closed. Human memory being what it is, it will soon pass out of mind in the world at large, leaving scarcely a scar on the most sensitive conscience. Only the Recording Angel will take it from there on.

EDITORIAL NOTES

An American tourist expert says that Australia should leave kan- garoos, boomerangs and aborigines out of its tourist literature. Will Can- adians soon be told that they shoul keep the Mounties out of their book- lets? .

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Chancellor Adehause of West Germany is entitled to the Presidency of the Federal Republic after. serv- ing as head of the. Government s faithfully and so well for so many years. It seems a pity, however, that he is making the change at a time when British-German relationship: are ina state of deterioration. The} are, in fact, worse than at any time since the end of World War Two.

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Representatives of five major ex porting countries, including Canada will meet in Washington early ir May in an attempt to implement Pre- sident Eisenhower’s “food for peace’ program. The hope is that ways wil be found to direct the large wheat surpluses. to parts.of the world where food is scarce. This is one field in which Canada can take a leading part. Mr. Diefenbaker’s proposed “food bank”—about which wé, have not heard much lately—wil perhaps “form part of the program. +

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POTS EO PER Ge OA

The Canadian Government is to be commended for arguing the case for a Uniied Nations role or presence in Berlin. Whatever _ May be said against it, it is at least a positive proposal, a wel- come relief from the stand - pat Bonn and Paris. Since the Soviet Un- ion brought matters to a head last November, Western reaction has been in need of a healthy dose of realism: the don’t-budge- an-inch school has failed to see that West Berlin can be West un- less a new arrangement with Russia, tacit or spelled out, is agreed upon.

Britain, France, the United States .and Russia went into Berlin by right on conquest, a

Germam peace treaty. They have stayed ause Russia has re- fused to permit the reunification of Germany so a peace treaty could be signed.

PRETTY SILLY

But it is pretty silly to be argu- ing after 14 years that the right of conquest is sti valid o- to be hoping that Russia will suddenly Switch its policy. Some other tack will have to be tried. So when Moscow says the four-Power con- trol of Berlin is antiquated and Soviet responsibilities will be turned over to the East Germans, what practical alternatives are there for the West? : :

There are really only two al-, ternatives. One is purely nega-

The International Geophysical significant peaceful activity of mankind since the Renaissance and the Copernican Revolution, will bear fruits for years to come

With the whole earth as their labofatory, 30,000 scientists and technicians of 66 countries rang- ed from Pole to Pole and probed deeply into sea and sky. The col- lective gathering of data ended last December 31, but analysis and interpretation of the thou- sands of findings, will continue for years to come. A future New- ton or Einstein may be needed to decipher their hidden mean- ings. Already the knowledge gain- ed during the IGY has excited men everywhere, the National Geographic Society points out. MYSTERIOUS RADIATION

Among the striking achieve ments tre these:

1. Scientists detected deadly ra diation of unknown origin around

‘ the earth. beginning at a heizht of about 250 miles. This so-called Van Allen Radiation Zone may prove a major obstacle to space travel.

2. Sounding rockets discovered solar X-rays are responsible for some radio blackouts, and their discovery will vitally affect fu- ture development in radio com- munication.

3. Artificial satellites, ushering in the Space Age, gave science a new tool to ledrn more about weather and the shape of. the earth. Equipped with telescopes, satellites will offer a vew of the stars unobstructed by earth's at- mosphere.

Curiously, the grapefruit-shap- ed Vanguard sateflite wobbled in its orbit. After ruling ou! other explanations; scientists ‘ decided that the earth is shaped some- what like a pear. not @flattened sphere.

4. Antarctica was colonized for the first tinte and explored ex- tensively Temperatures of 124 degrees below zero were record- ed. Weather studies indicate the white continent may dramatical- ly influence the world’s weather.

5. Scientists reported that An- tarctica appears to have rm- ed up ‘ive degrees in 50 yegrs. With more than 90 per cent all the world’s ice, it vowd—i! melted — raise sea levels 200

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OUR OWN COLD WAR A Berlin Role For U.N.

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tive: We refuse to recognize a unilateral Soviet denunciation of the four-Power status and treat the East Germans simply as Fagcnts of the Soviet Union. The weakness in this is that Berlin is over 100 miles from its supply sources in West Germany; sooner. or later, Communist . economic attrition against this idand might be attempted and the West could be faced with thé necessity ;of forcing its way in, with all | the dangers of world war involv- ed therein. In any event, the agent approach hardly seems the way to lessen tension in Europe or make the Soviet Union more amenable to our, views.

| OTHER ALTERNATIVE

The other alternative is that we admit the occupations status is outmoded and therefore some- thing must take its place. This |means we must create a politi- | cal and legal situation which cor- responds to the facts: namely. that West Germans are running | West Berlin and East Germans | are running East Berlin, with a | measure of co-operation between them on matters of mutual in- terest.

Whole Earth Their Laboratory

National Geographic Seciety

countercurrents were found and measured. One, in the Atlantic, flows beneath and opposite to the Gulf Stream.. It travels at the rate of eight miles per day some 9,000 feet beneath the sur- face.

7. Oceanographers dredging the Pacific Ocean bottom off Peru came up with the living ances- tor of the snail, believed to have been extinct for 300 million years MEETING OF MINDS

Perhaps the most important discovery of all was that scien- tists in nations al] over the

tive political and economic phil- osophies, could cooperate in the quest for knowledge. In the words of a committee of the United States Congress: ‘‘Where politi- cal minds could not meet. scien- tific minds did.”

The IGY demonstrated that | man has embarked on a pulsing new Age of Discovery with hew frontiers: as exciting as any in the past. The modern 'frontiers- man uses a satellite instead of a Conestoga wagon, and a slide rule instead of a musket, but he faces the same challenge of the unknown as did his ances- tors.

MAXIMS

It is partly*to avoid conscious- ness of yreed thet we prefer te associate with those who are at least as greedy as ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach,

BAR PHOTOGRAPHERS MONTREAL ‘(CP)—City coun- cil barred press photographers from the anteroom ouiside the council chambers Thursday after a member of the executive com- mittee, Alfred Gagliardi, pro-

invasion of the chambers Wed- nesday night when vol'ce ejected councillor Frank Hanley.

HEADS HEA’™.TH BRANCH

QTTAWA (CP) — Appointment of J. Albert Blais, a native of Quebec City, as national diréctor of the family allowance and old age security branch of the health dev tment was announced Fri- day. He succeeds R. B. Currie, now employed by the Privy Council. :

world, regardless of their respec-}+- @

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two-Germanies, which is surely the only realistic hope for the eventual reunification of Ger-

many. THIRD FORCE -

The danger in such a course, however, is that it would pro- bably tend in the short run to cement the division of Ger- many and would undoubtedly be regarded in many quarters as a diplomatic defeat for the West. To avoid these complications therefore, a third force or ele- ment must be introduced.

If the UN assumed legal re- sponsibility for West Berlin (there is only the remotest chance that East Berlin, which Russia insists is the capital of East Germany, could be included) on the under- standing that such responsibility would continue until Berlin is re- stored as the capital of one Ger- many, tien Western rights of ac- cess could be maintained and the goal of reunification could be kept alive. J MANY DIFFICULTIES

No doubt there are many dif- ficulties in the way. The Germans, in part'cular, are not accustomed to looking on the UN as an es- cape hatch. It may also be asked whether the UN is physically up to assuming a role in Berlin in amy meaningful way. But the idea should -be pursued.

On no account should it be dropped because the West is strained by disagreement and* new ideas happen to offend some members. Canada may not have a direct responsibiility or voice in the future of Berlin, but we are Obviously involved in what hap- pens there.

The Age Old Story

It is the Lord: let him-@e_what seemeth him good. .

WHAT, NO CARS? KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont. (CP) The Chamber of Commerce of

this Northern Ontario gold-min- ing town is planning a raffle with a different kind of prize—a $1,100

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INJECTION COULD HELP

If you think you might be vul- nerable to the disease, your doc- tor might recommend an _injec- tion’ of gamma globulin. If taken soon enough, this. might protect you—and your baby, too.

Remember one more thing: even if you do get German meas- les during early pregnancy, the odds are five to one that your baby will be all right. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Miss G..W.: Is there anything that can be done to clear broken veins in the legs? I have some little red veins under the skin of my legs, mostly in the thighs.

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OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (ApriJ 20, 1934)

What nearly became a fatal ac- cident was averted at Morell on Wednesday by the quick action of three young men, Francis Kel- ly, Wilfred Eldershaw and Maur- ice Coffin, who rescued Master Floyd S. Cox, nine year old son of Mr. Lioyd Cox, Sr., from drow- ning. The lad had been fishing through the river ice in fourteen feet of ‘Water when he broke through.

Mrs. Charles Robertson and her five children leave on Friday morning for Halifax where they will sail for Glasgow. Scctland

of a fox ranch. Mrs. Robertson was given a farewell pafty on Tuesday evening at the home of her sister, Mrs. William Heck- bert of Summerside. TEN YEARS AGO (April 26, 1949)

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