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-Form Ancl Substance

, If one were to judge by appearan- ;es, one would conclude that the new ‘french Government under General , Jharles DeGaulle,is very similar to ‘ )I'€Vl01lS Governments. The General’s :

nauguration speech was mild in tone '

ind even conciliatory to the parties ,l.11(l individuals who opposed his in- .'estitui*e or accepted it grudgingly. As for the cabinet, it looks much like Iiny other council of ministers. There , y ,s nothing-—out in the open, that is——- f ,}.(i indicate an authoritarian trend, 3; - l'3xcept,, perhaps, the “special powers“ ll grantetl to General DeGau1le. But : these are for only six months—so the ’ -‘agreenieiit states~—after which period ' ,‘?Parliamcnt will be given back its ,rights. . ‘ E . ‘ But appearances are sometimes de- ceptive; and it is possible that they are in this case. However benevolent Premier DeGaulle may.be disposed ‘to be, he can only govern_ according to . lzhegeneral wishes of the army lead- ,ers in Algeria to whom he owes his assumption of _power. These leaders f already ' have expressed disappoint- *i ment at the General’s choice of cab- ‘inet material; nor is it at all clear I that they will be satisfied with “rule lby decree” for only six months. What ;if, at the end of that period, they :.were to decide that the “public safe- ilty” still required DeGaulle’sf-or their 1 own--giiidance? It is difficult to see . how Parliament could regain its con- ; stitutional rights, however much the , Premier were inclined that way. And, l of course, it is possible that within _ i the six months period the constitu- tion will be so changed by decree that ‘there will be very few parliament- . ary rights left. Taking one thing with. another, it : would seem that General l)eGaulle is , 3 not as keen on dictatorial rule as was lat ‘first fearéd. But only events, as ,3 they unfold, will tell whether the sub- , ‘,5 stance of the new regime will corres- ;,l pond with its form.

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Section 2 of What has been gener- ~‘ , ally called the “Eisenhower doctrine”_ says: “The United States regards as vital‘ to its national interest and 3 world peace the preservation of the independence and integrity of ' the Z nations of the Middle East. To this end, if the President determines the l ‘nature thereof, the United States is prepared to use armed force to as- il sist any such nation or group of l

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‘ nations requiring assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international Commu- nism.” ' ?This, notes the influential Mil- waukee Journal, has been taken to mean what it seems to mean——that under the doctrine, American troops can be sent ‘into the Middle East only in case of armed attack .,in that area from Russia, or a country controlled hy._-}flRussia. Such was certainly the understanding in late 1956 when the doctrine was urged as a way to block a threatened attack on Jordan _. by: Syria, openly backed by Russia. It ‘did not, however, provide for in- direct Communist aggression or sub- version, or other contingencies. ‘Mr. Dulles, however-—;who was foremost in denouncing the action of l; Britain and France in intervening in the Suez crisis where the national interest of these countries and of world peace was undoubtedly at stake, and where indirect Communist , aggressiori was (evident--takes a Pickwickian View of the situation in the case of Lebanon. The pro- \\’G.’%l'.Pi'l1 government there is in dan- ger‘, but there’ is,no threatgof attack from outside. The United Arab Re- Diibllc (Egypt and Syria with Yemen Rdliefilizl is fomentingrevolt, but ill? l.‘/\R is not under Red control. '.:%ri the F/isciilmxvei‘ doctrine is mean- , lllfilvsx‘. it read as written. is But not -‘.‘»*i.vs U.S. State S-,,,,,.E,,,,,.,. -' l.)ullc.s, t_Zonvcnientl_v taking only (big ll1".‘1l scntcip-rx of S‘e(',l.i0n l1P..s.'-ivs that /\ll‘lPi’lr?Ell‘l troops can be sent to Lebanon if Lebanon requests them. In fact, he considers the sen- tence “a mzindate to do something if We think lgllal tllll’ peace and vital interests are endangered from any quarter.” Senator Mansfield, who pushed the -Eisenhower doctrine th.r‘o'igh the Democratic senate, says

that it contains no such rnandate. However, if President F.iseiil1o\\'er and Mr. Dulles want to read it that way, they can. And they can get American troops into the Middle East under such an interpretation, leaving Congress to debate the issue. Not a word, incidentally, about the United Nations, whose prestige the U, S. government was’ so concerned about in the Suez incident!

“Here,” says our Milwaukee contemporary, “is laid bare the basic phoniness of the so—called Eisen- hower doctrine and all the debate about it, past and present. Under the Constitution, the President is the sole executive, is in charge/of foreign affairs, is commander in chief of the armed forces. If national interests are endangered anywhere it is his responsibility to protect them. He doesn’t need specially written, wea- sel worded ‘doctrines’, which can't possibly meet every contingency. He doesn't need advance approval from Congress." , 1

Again no word about the United Nations! U.S. diplomacy is now back to where it ,was when President Truman ordered American troops into Korea, and where it has always been when vital U.S. interests are at stake. It is only when other powers take the same attitude with regard to their interests in the Middle East and the maintenance of world peace that Mr. Dulles waxes indignant, and President Eisenhower goes on the air to denounce im- perialism. _

- ‘An lnternational‘G'ame

Prime Minister Macmillan will do more than address university gather- ings and talk over international af- fairs with President Eisenhower dur- ing the course of his trip to the Unit- ed States. If present plans worko t, he will play a serious game of gof with the President. By “serious”'we mean a game with a medal at stake.

‘ Frank Pace, Jr., President of the International Golf Association and former Secretary of the Army, is go- ing to put’ up the medal and pay for ,“a. brand new set of clubs for Mr. Mac- millan” whose own" clubs are ‘said to be the worse for wear.,Mr. Pace sees the contest between the two states- men as i“a match in keeping with the spirit of the (golf) Association in fostering-:.goadoi11»« xlauons;"’.

Meanwhile, in Scotland, a._ golf club has issued a statement claiming that “Mr. Macmillan’s game is better than Mr. Ei;_enhower’s in every way.” -Ap- parentiy, the main basis for the claim is that Mr. Macmillan is Scottish, while‘ Mr. Eisenhower isn’t, and they are asking in Scotland, who ever heard of a “foreigner” who was as good at golf as 8. Scot? Some Scots believe that they are better at any- thing than anybody else. But that is another proposition. Let him dispute

it who has the courage.

EDTTORIAL NOTES

Most Wésterri leaders have had lit- tle to say about what position they expect General DeGaul1e to -take in NATO affairs. Evidently, while they are hoping he will preserve the status quo, they are a little afraid that he might upset some of their plans.

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Farmers’ co-operatives in the United States have made great gains in the last thirty years. There are now nearly 8 million members, com- pared with less than 3 million in the late 1920': according to a report is- sued by the U. S. Department: of Agriculture.

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At long last, the survey ‘of the Northumberland Straits is in pro- gress. It will ‘take time before in- formation is available on which to make a decision for or against the causeway. It is much too soon for any- one to express an opinion as to what the outcome will be. But we know now that the Federal Government

' means business; and that is some-

thing for which to be thankful. 4 4 ‘A’ . The effects of inflation’ are graphically illustrated by a recent letter in The Times, of London. The letter is signed by the Vicar of Peter- church, Hereford, and by his two churchwardens. Here is the story it tells: After standing for six cen- turies, Peterchurch spire became dangerous in 1949, and was taken down, leaving an ugly shimzp. It was then estimated that a new spire would (30.91 £7,llll(l. This was 3 lot of mmley 110 be raised in an agricultural parish with fewer than 200 house. h.""“- Rm lhf‘ l?il‘E€‘l' has now, after um" ."“?""-‘5 Ill‘ “f’l(‘i,(’l'rrl,ili:iliim .‘ll'lfl g"7l1€l"»)~‘.7ll—,3i‘". been i=eeii;'li.;.;,i_, 1-‘or I-.)LlY"lll£, ljl’l()S.P nlnp _\rp','4r5. fhg C051 of a new spire has risen to £14,000,

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OTTAWA REPORT

Ottawa: This colurrm recently mentioned the bill for half a mil- lion dollars. which was presented .» to Canadian Taxpayers for buy- ing and furniiisihinig a home not our Ambassador to Brazil to use for four years only. \

I-Ion. Donald Flleimiiin-,g, now Min- ister of Finance, qiiestiioned this high cost two years ago, when he was an Opposition M.P. He was ‘given some details; others have come to light subsequently. But nobody has yet explained satis- factonily why that Portuguese Palace in Rio de Janeiro had to be bought as a gold-iplated bunk- house for our Ambassador.‘ For bunk-house it was. It did not also house the dllploimialiiic offices, W‘hll.lClh are in our Uh-anicery at an- other address.

The palace was bought for $341,000. This was about'$100.000

viously for the Ottawa house in- tended to serve as the official re- rsidenice of Canada's Pniime Minis- ters. llt is a dark red stucco build- ing, modelled after a,Portugue«se Palace. It has the it-suatl living quartens but on an unuisualily la- vish scale; it has a private swim- ming pool standing in its own garden; it has outside terraces; and the whole is surrounded by 3 medieval-style moat. Even at that high cost. the buildiing "was not suitable for use by our Ambassador, and work had to be done on it. Renovations F9 and reipains cost a fuirvtherr $25,000, which compares rather immod- estly with the total cost. of the

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In 1732 de Pensens went to France and did much to interest ' the government authorities in the :affairs of Isle Saint-Jean. He

succeeded in having himself ap- pointed Lieutenant du Roi and obtained a grant of 1,500 livres for a boat which would be used in transporting Aoadiiains from Nova Scotiia to the Island. How- ever, he complaiiied that his lod- gings at port Lajoie were in a very bad state, that the surgeon of the garrison was not properly paid. and the chaplain _had now only the or-naments of the chapel, being compelled to use -an old house which once belonged to the Company of Comte Saint-

Pierre to conduct the daily ser-

vices.

De Pensens returned to Port Lajoie on August 22. Before leav- ing Lou-isbourg where he had'ar-

he again complained about the in- ferior state of his lodgings at Port Lajoie. He writes that “If I were not thinking of the good of the service, I would refuse to set out from here until I were assur- ed of proper lodgings, but I hope to rent a few rooms from a habitanil, so as not to put. the king to too much expense."

ROAD TO . MALPEQUE

Yet with commendable coiirage he set to work. He had a rough road opened between port Lajoie and Malipeque which made it pos- sible to cover the dist-ance be- tween the two points in one day. Orders were also given for the construction of a new magazine. barracks. and new lodgin-gs for the Lieutenant du Roi, All these projects were to be comipleted be- fore the end of 1734.

In 1734 the fishermen of St. PE‘.l,P5l'S lost most of their catch of fish through lack of salt. Had it not been for a supply of provis- ions brought from Quebec in one of de Roma's ships. many would. have st.arved to death.

The relations between de Pen-

vcr_i' cordial. Dc Roma praised l‘r‘n<r‘n.'-. Ar. :1 man nl’ limior, 1w:-ire anrl eqiiiii, iiliile rlc Pen. sen: ‘Wrote on Or-l.nhc-.r 20. 1734, in the minigte-1' in Paris, that de Rome was making a gi‘eal sue i-ee: of his selllenwnl at Three

Am bcisscidorioil Palace

By Patrick Nicholson Special Correspondent for The Guardian

more tih-an had been palid just p-re-I

THE ACADIANS OF P.E.l. nsens’ Administration

By J. Henri Blanchard. LL.D.

rived on the 20th of that month. ‘

sens and dc Roma were always

home bought new by the average taxpayer who had to pay that heavy diplomatic bill. FURNISHED DE LUXE

Then came a really staggering bill for $94,000, for the furnish- i-ngs it takes to setup a Canadian Ambassador abroad in the style to which he has news. been ac- customed in his own Canadian home at his own expense.

Item: $1,386 for one rug in the third living room. I-tam: $441.90 for lamps in the best bedroom. Item: $1,861.20 for furniture in the fourth bedroom. .Iitevrr:: $1,591 flor sheets and blankets. Item: and note this in case you take sf bu-si—,' ness trip to Brazil, and hope that 1 our Ambassador there stage‘ an ofiliciial reception in your hon- or-—$3,946.65 for kitchen counter and warming oven.

The garden around this palace seems to be quite a show piece too; item: $3,209.10 ‘or furniture for two terraces; item; $675 for gardening tools.

And the private swimming pool needed special furnriture cositinig a more $1,893.61, 21 pnice whtch compares somewlhal unfa~vo'irah- ly with the bag of grass seed wmclh, for I few cents, would adequately furnish the surroundls of the average Canadian Siwirnirn-K ing hole.

QUESTIONS UNANSWERIED

Since those revelations. some penetrating questions have been asked by a Canadian taxpayer who had to pay his share of that bill. What makes these questions the more in.t.eresl.in~.a is that that

of his partners were without foundation. CENSUS FIGURES -

De Pensens had censuses taken in 1734 and again in 1735. Ex- clusive of fishermen, in 1734 the population amounted to 390 souls. and in 1735, the number was 432 souls. In 1734, there were 175 fish- ermen, and in 1735,‘ 131 fish- ermen. In 1734 there were 332 cattle and 119 sheep; in 1735, 433 cattle and 190 sheep.

De Perisens was also pleased to report in 1735 that the chaplain and the surgeon had been proper- ly housed. and a new powder magazine had been built. but the barracks were not yet complet- ed. In 1736 he had built. five boats of from 20 to 80 tons burden.

De Pensens continued as Com- mandant until 1736 when he was

taxpayer had formerly been our Ambassador to Brazil

\ Why was-there‘ an expenditure of $2,405.50 for a grand piano‘? he asked. What had happened to the grand piano provided for the Am- bassador when he was here? And why $7,748.00 for diiniinig room table and chairs? What had h-3:!)- penied to the em~in-envtlly suitable dining room furririture which he had used in Rio?

The hottest unanswered ques- tion in the Case of the Rio Pal- ace is: Why did our'Embassy’s records show the Canadian. dollars sent for the purcihaise pricge ,-as being exchanged for Brazilian Cruzedro-s at 73.385 to the U ". $ on Mancti 15, 1955. when the pre- vailing exchange rate. as'confirm- ed by bankens. was at that date 81.50? A sum of $31,500 disappear- ed in that transaction; a sum which would have been saved to the Canadian taxipayer if the pur- chase of the palace had been car- ried out as a current transaction betwen Canadian dollars and Brazilian Cmzeiirois.

There rern-a.in~m.an»y other ques- tions: what about certain other charges associated with the Rio Embassy? And why was such a costly home bought for the use of the 8_ll'Il'baiSS8d‘0I‘», when it was known lihat the Eirfiibassiy would have to move from Rio llf) 3ras- ilia within five yeans? Exonbita-ht though the rental of $2,400 per month was for the ambaissador's previous home, it would even have been cheaper to keep on that rented place than to buy the gi1l1.ded palaice. .

Now that TTl‘ll‘Cl,h rew in-forrnatrion has come to liiiglhl. on this matter which Mr. Donald Flerninig start- ed to investigate from the diffi- cult position on the Opposition benches, perhaps we will hear more of this subject lror:1. his new and easier position on the Govern- ment benches.

mained in charge only one year. De Pensens had.been for twelve years the chief guide of a timid, wavering, and dependent. colony. He strove to build anew a second Acadia’ that would know peace and prosperity. In this faith he became the father of his people and, though his own generation was ungrateful. his memory should be cherished by the des- cendants of those who first drove back the wilderness which he had found so irksome. DU HAGET TAKES COMMAND

The year of Du Hage.t’s govern- ment in Isle Saint-Jean (1736-17- 37) was one of distress. ‘During the summer of 1736 a. great. Fire swept over the settlements and destroyed the crops. The people were reduced to complete depen- dence upon the King for susten- ance. Du Hager helped them from the government stores and in the spring of 1737, twenty hogsheads ‘of seed wheat were sent from Louishourg.

succeeded by du. I-lager, who re-

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The Forgotten Islands

Ottawa Journal

The Mines Department is send- ing a charting vessel to the Bel- cher Islands this year to make more exact the safe channels for the shipment of ore from what had better been called the "For- gotten Islands”.

The Belchers were placed in- definitely on the Hudson Bay

maps of mariners nearly 300 years ago but until 1915 they were only uncertain dots and

mariners gave them a wide berth. _Al1 Canad; was explored, expeditions thrust towards the North Pole and gold was dug in

the far Northwest. but not, until ‘

1915 did the Belchers receive examination although lhev are only 80 miles from the Quebec mainland. ,

in I915 Floherl Plallr-‘rl,y, then more interr>.<l,erl in iron ore than films. went in the islands wlieria the red rock gave promise of mineral finds. But. it was too soon for development work and Flan- erly, observing the primitive na- tives whose conlar,-l \vilh the white‘ man had lwcn small. lfhtl F"l\'6‘4'l H16‘. idea, for hi.-. lain-31,11 Eskimo film. "Nanook of flu: North", slimin the ii-m-ld n\‘pr

while only a very few Canar‘l1ang knew anything at all or the Bel-

l Ri\=ei'°., aiid lhial. the rzmmilalirt-s l clicrs.

For generations the traders at Great Whale River welcomed one or two Eskimos who yearly con- trived to make the dangerous ice crossing from the islands. Once these visitors brought word of a

killing and this was investigated’

by the Mounted police who found the natives a primitive people

When you suffer from pain nl - Headache, Nkllfalpia or ' Muscular ar,he'~ you want to stop that pain fast _ , , so

take Aspirin! A tablet starts disintegrating almost the instant you take it—starts to relieve that pain almostinstantly!

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Boys Should Have Freedom

By Herman N. Bundesen. M. D. We hear more and more about neighborhood “gangs-" With 511 the adverse publicity. the ve1'.V word gang, has come to have 8 sinister me-aininz. _ Yet, from time imrnemorial. young boys have had their g-anfls. groups or clubs. Most of you men probably had a gang in 3/0111’ childhood. I know I did. r NATURAL AND NECESSAR1 This is perfectly natural. even necessary. When bf!)/S become nine or ten years old, they have the desire, the need, to band to-

scout packs, and. for older boys. Boy Scout troops serve this need very well in many instances.

When these facilities are not available. or even when they are- ! can see nothing wrong in Pf’-1”" mitting - youngsters to organize theirown little clubs or groups. providing there are wholesome activities in which these children can participate. - TWO'FOLD PURPOSE Organizing a neighborhood fool,- ball or baiseball club is an excell- ent way to capitalize on this nat- ural boyish urge «to "belong" and at the same time, promote good sportsmanship and team spirit.

There is no danger of. such groups developing the tactics of rowclies if parents will take the time and effort to make sure there are plenty of opportunities for safe and legitimate activities. SET UP A CLUB HOUSE

For one thing, help your chu- dren and their young friends to set up a club house. Every group needs one. The closer it is to home. the easier it is to keep a watchful eye on the group’s do- ings. , I don't want you to spy on your own cihldren. and certainly the youngsters would. resent any such attempt on your part. However. permitting the neighborhood kids to use a portion of your basement, attic, or a ' section of your backyard as a meeting place seems like a pretty sensible ap- proach to the situation. DON‘T BUTT IN!