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-{WASHINGTON (AP) _ The in-ited States announced Russia nducted two powerful nuclear eapons tests Thursday.

silt apparently is the first time lie Atomic Energy Commission lis reported two Soviet tests on gt same day. . ,,;,A little-morethan two hours af- lerthe first one was announced, the AEC issued a statement say- it

4j;“Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of eU.S. Atomic Energy Commis- iion, announced that the Soviet Brion today conducted two more large-yield explosions in its cur- rent series of nuclear weapons

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: ...l’°lM.'ed the dinehr-may : United States “lwonsteﬂaiion missing. since ..1 With 22 men aboard.

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Begin In .Wesi hI&9ND°N lC1_’)-—Thaws of snow » ise swelled the rivers of Ellmpe -to dangerous pro- ,,=,h"e“-Tliuwsdayswhue millions ‘ a were still shivering lﬁﬂilleratures.

gram and melting ice lfnlmwement to road éi;_“—5_“1_many snowbound ar- ‘* 3Fl3l£3d but rising waters .. SQ - I

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33,, 1 nj llleother side of the *§n:r’m”al9TS~dT0ye about 100 per- iiii,,rsm1°W-lying homes.

. at W59 -dangerously in the gi nea as snow continued to g;;1:€§1?1’°}l1‘Y registered 31 de- zero in northern Swe- - below in Oslo, Nor- iill I ‘ ’ ?ég1‘§WW.f9med cancellation ‘gate raj-1- l1‘xaff.1'c_ on Denmark‘s 1., . ‘Ears. Fifteen’ inches fell

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Depart: em. Ottawa

The two Soviet detonations oc- curred north of the Arctic Circle in the same general area as the -Soviet megaton range nuclear test Sunday, Feb. 23. \ ‘ GETS WORD OF Znd

“Today’s second Soviet test ex- plosion was reported to Mr. Strauss shortly after his announce- ment in mid-a.fternoon.on t-he fir- ing of the earlier Soviet test ex-

PRESS DIEFENBAKE

M3“ by the Post Officg

R FOR HANDSHAKE

lwo H-Bomb Tests In Russia Noted Yesterday

plosion of the day."

A megaton weapon is one hav- ing the equivalent of 1,000,000 tons of TNT. “

These were the 28th and 29th Russian nuclear explosions an- nounced by the U.S.

There may have been more tests than that. The AEC has said it does not announce all the So- viet tests it detects.

U. 5. Fleet Units Put To , Sea To Check Report Of Sub

WASI-HANGTON (AP) — Units of the US. Atlantic -Eleet~il1'a*we‘= put to sea tochieck reports :of unidentified’ sub m-'a'1‘i.n e s, the’ navy said Thursday night.

A statement saidvessels “sailed from East-Coast ports to

investigate .a reported contact in

the Atlantic. It is a standard pro- cedure to investigate such reports -from any source.” ‘ News dispatches from Norfolk, Va., earlier said ships were sent to sea Tuesday. It also was learned that the anti-submarine carrier Leyte had left Mayport, F‘la., earlier this week and that probably ships and aircraft which make up the U.S. Navy’s anti- submarine teams had left other ports along the Atlantic seaboard. In the past, the navy was in-

Tlireaten As Tliciws

Europe Areas

pine region.

Even the French» Riviera had a dash of un pl ea 5 a n t weather. Winds more than 40 miles an hour whipped Mediterranean - resorts, and in North Africa, Algiers and parts of Algeria were hit by heavy snow. '

DUTCH FEAR FLOODS

Dutch officials issued warnings of flood danger on the Rhinde and the River Maas and reported the Meuse River village of Itteren al- ready was ﬂooded.

Floods also hit other areas in the Nether-land‘-s and in Belgium.

In Paris, the Seine went over the “alert mark.” East of the cap- ital, 7,000 people in the Grand Morin River town of Coulom- rnieres were ‘cut off. Firemen brought them supplies by boat. I

The Marne and Yonne’ Rivers also overflowed their banks, and the hamlet of Les Varenesss south of Fontainebleau was cut off com- pletely by the ﬂood waters of th Iioing. -

Move rmany

while speakers praised the with- drawal, which Western sources belive will still leave some 350;- 000 Soviet troops in East Germ‘ any. .

An East German army band and 50 blue-uniformed members of the semi - military factory guards armed with rifles also at- tended the send-off.

STAND IN WAR RUINS

A crowd of 5000 East Gcrm<'1IlS watched amid the ruins of former churches and other war-scarred

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9 main square i

. ,. , + buildings. Mally members of “he

zcrgwd .i. i r c d of the lengthy erman authorit- l speeches while standing 111 the blt‘

ter cold and the group thinned out

“undersea: —--More often than not, it‘ has reported that nothing ,-was found; ' .

that its investigations» of unident- ified objects onor below the sur- face of thefsea‘ are investigations ‘only and that the doctrine of the freedom of the seas gives the Rus- sians or anybody else the /right to cruise in open waters.

12-Die In Tornadoes .

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JACKSON, Miss. CP -— Twelve persons died in central Missis- sippi when tornadoes wrecked homes, buildings and forests Wed- nesday night. The twisters moved into Lou-isianaf, Texas, Florida and.Albama, causing lesser dam- age. .

Thirteen communities were hit. Shattered buildings and wood- lands’ hooked a rural area 140 miles long.

PENTICTON, B.C. (rCP)—-CC'F_ leader M. J. Coldwell Thursday night described as a “national scandal” the “fantastic fortunes”

Transmission Natural Gas Pipe- line Company and called for ac- tion to prevent such deals in fu- ture. . '

Speaking in the campaign for the March 31 federal general elec- ti-on, hesaid Frank McMahon of Calgary alone could turn an ini- tial investment of $7,700 into more than $8,000,000 in stock profits through his connection with West- coast.

Gains by other promoters of the pipeline that carries Peace River gas from northwestern Alberta into the Vancouver area and Pa- cific northwestern United States raise total capital gains on West- coast Transmission to about $100,- 000,000, Mr. Coldwell said.

IS “MORAL WRONG”

“I say that is a national scan- dal. A great moral wrong has been done—-and I am not saying

BONN (AP)t -— The l1igh-pow- ered radio transmitter in the United States earth satellite Ex- plorer has gone silent for a sec- ond time, Bonn University observ- atory reported Thursday.

Professor Friedrich B e c k e r, head of the observatory, said that the transmitter ceased sending for 12 days, then resumed on Feb. 24.

steadily as the orator)’ length-, ‘ened.

He recorded its‘ transmission

strength Tuesday as 10 milli-.

vestigated reports of unidentifiediumhenaﬁbus

It has repeatedly emphasized,‘

he Muamdliaiit

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like‘T7ie Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, FRIDAY,,FEBRUARY 28,1958 HUGE CROWD G»R:E.ETS P. M.

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V Discover Virus

In Jciundice

NEW YORK (AP)-‘—Three Vien- nese physicians said Thursday they have discovered the virus

causing jaundice and wer hope- ful of an eventual cure or that and some related liver ailments.

An Austrian government an- nouncement made public here said

“They intend to experiment on the effects of medicines against this virus. For the first time in the history of liver illnesses, it will be possible to fight success- fully epidemic jaundice.”

The doctors, with Vienna’s sec- ond medical clinic, are Dr. Karl Fellinger and two a.ssistan»ts, Drs. ‘A. Braunsteiner and F. Pakesh, the latter a woman.

. They said the jaundice-produo mg virus they discovered under an electro-microscope is related to the virus .that causes infectious

* Fisheries Dept. - Plfobes‘ Rep?o7rli I

INVERNESS, N.S. (CP)—Fi‘sh- eries Minister Ma.cLean said

Thursday his department is inves- flgatmg r e p or t s that foreign

trawlers are interfering with Ca- iiadian fishermen off Cape Bre- ton.

In a .-telegram to Allan Mac- Eachern Liberal mgrnber of Par- liament for Inverness. Mr. Mac-

. Lean said his department is trying

to -gather details of the alleged destruction of fishing gear by for- eign trawlers. ,

. Operators of long liners — fish- ing vessels which drag long lines —say their equipment has been damaged by foreign rtrawllers which trawl across their lines.

on) PRINTERS

The first printing press on the American continent Was used by

made by promoters of Westcoast '

Spaniards in Mexico in 1539.

Calls Huge ‘Fortunes Made In Pipe-I-inej National Disgrace

th naatything illegal was done- and it is time our government re-_ moved the opportunity for such exploitation."

text of excerpts of his speech, is- sued to the press before delivery. Mr. Coldwcll said “the guilty

men” are not so much the West- , coast promoters “who repead the I

fantastic fortunes as the old-line party politicans who gave them the ‘opportunity for such gains.”

“The guilty men are those who

believe such great public utilities 2

should be the private preserve of a few speculators and thus pro- vide to them a standing invita- tion to exploit the public.

“The -guilty. men are those j members ‘of Parliam-en-t'—-Liberal, :

Progressive Conservative and So-

cial Credit alike '—'— supported as ‘

they are‘ by the financial contri butions of privileged interests, that handed this great publ’icpro- ject to these promoters.”

Neither the Liberals nor the I

Conserv-atlves would remove the opportunity of such exploitation.

Radio Transmitier:InIU.. S. a Satellite, Goes .

Silent -Agciin

watts, but thereafter the signals continued to diminish until they ceased entirely Thursday.

“I have no ‘explanation for this strange behavior,” Becker said, “perhaps some mechanism in the Explorer has been accidentally released.” .

He added that the second radio transmitter in the Explorer has worked uninterruptedly and with undiminished strength since the satellite was—launched Jan. 01.

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,With Liberal Indecision

Makes Plea For More U. S. Russian Trade, Visits-

WASHINGTON (AP) —- Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov has urged more visits, more trade and even joint U.S.-Soviet economic aid programs.

“I came here with the sole pur- pose to help. improve the rela- tions of our countries,” he told The Associated Press in an inter- view at the Soviet Embassy. ‘

As a No. 1 target he singled out the U.'S. embargo on‘ certain ‘trade with Russia. The purpose of the embargo is to withhold items which might further the Soviet war potential. Menshikov said it has failed, ‘serving only to in- crease tensions.

“All of this didn’t cause‘ any harm to our country and, second, your country didn’t gain any- thing,” he said. “Certain business circles in this country lost the -trade. as -a result. And of course the whole thing added a. little bit to the tensions between the two countries. That is all it pro- duced.” .

Menshikov, who replaced gruff Georgi Zarubin as ambassador, speaks fluent English and is an economist and a lifelong student of international trade.

AMONG FIRST TALKS

The private interview, with no questions barred, was one of the first the 55-year-old, Menshikov has granted since his arrival three weeks ago. But he served notice he is available.

Former Movie;

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A .°*'noLi.'iEwoon (AP) 3- Harry Cohn, one of the last orrihe--new-Z

movie moguls, died ‘Thurs-

’ day in Phoenix, Ariz.;»He Was'07.

’ Cohn, president ‘for-‘.30 years of ‘Columbia Pictures» Corporation, which. he co-founded with his brother, Jack, succumbed of a ~heai‘*-t attack while on‘ a winter vacation, his studio said.

Cohn had the reputation of being" the most autocratic studio boss in filmland. He ranColu-m'bi’a as a one-man show and it paid off.

Columibia under his leadership rose from a minor concern to one of Hollywood’s major picture fac- tories. »

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CORSAGE FOR MRS. Dl‘EFENB;AKER

Three-iyeuar-iold Debbie G»al»- Capitol Theater at Summerside Iant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. yesterday afternoon, shortly be- Summerside -fore the Prime Minister addres- presents a corsage to Mrs. Die-' sed. an overflow crowd of nearly

Edmund Gallant,

fenbaker on the stage of ‘the,l,000 people.

,headquarters of the Federated

Thursday said the rural women’s

99".‘. 1*- ,

~ci‘ated‘ country women of the

to the ACWW triennial meeting at

He said his plans include a speech, with questions afterward, before the National Press Club next Thursday. Thereafter, he said he will travel within the next three months to New York, Cleve- land, Philadelphia and Chicago for more public appearances and sightseeing.

Menshikov said he personally "thinks Soviet party secretary Nik- ita Khru-s-hchev shouldvisit the United States. He thinks also, he added, that such U.S. leaders as Vice - President Richard Nixon should go to.Russia.

“The more exchanges we have on all kinds of 1evels—from the

‘very top to the bottom--the bet-

ter,” he said.

SPEAKS FOR SELF

But he cautioned he was not speaking for his government on

President Eisenhower’s sugges- tion that influential Russians come to see for themselves what the U.S. is like.

Menshikov made these other comments:

1. He thinks. it is “a good idea” for the United States and Russia to co-operate in providing eco- nomic aid to needy nations. “We do not compete.” _

2. There has been “a lot of misunderstanding and . . . mis- representation” in c,,ritic~ism by both sides in the cold war. It would decrease, he said, if there was more mutual understanding.

3. He favors a. prompt start on diplomatic-level preparations for a summit conference. Such t-al-ks, he said, could set a time and .place but leave “the essence of the problems" to be solved at the summit.

‘Women's Institutes To Have New Headquarters In Ottawa

A-OTTAWA (CP)—A new national

Women's Institutes of Canada will soon be added to the capital’s di- rectory. . , Mrs. Keith Rand of Port Wil- liams, N.lS., FWIC president,

organizationis assured of office space here as soon as a national secretary is hired. The job is to be advertised in April.

Mr-s. Rand and a five-member sub-executive committee ended a four-day meeting here Thursday.

. 9*» :~a..nati9re1 9‘- iice was S udélrby tlié'60-year-'*

old organizations first national‘

convention here last’ October.

The FWIC now has about 90,- 000 members‘ in thej..10. provinces and is affiliated-‘with the

world, an international body. , The. sub - executive meeting named Mrs. Randand Mrs. E. J. R‘oylranc_e of Greenwood, _B.C., first vice-president. as delegates

Edinburgh next August. Mrs. George .Wilson of St.

Marys, 0nt., was named public relations officer for the federa- tion.

The committee also discussed

. tract dispute,

the Canadian institutes’ financial contributions to flood relief in Ceylon, where a sister rural wo- men’s organization was founded by Canadian-born Dr. Mary Rut- nam.

Canadian Women’=s Institutes al- ready have con-tributed more than $500 to the relief fund.

~Mrs. Rand said an exhibitpof Canadian crafts-will be shown at .1 New Zealand agricultural show in June. ‘

The crafts, ranging from Nova scotials tartan to Indian head- work and_Eskirng_.car U - s, sregtp ’foi'ﬁ;i?pai*t‘lif“§",displ’éfy“ tlié'"‘N‘élﬁ Zealand Federation of Worne ’ '—In‘sti‘tutes. — . ‘

Members, of the ~suib-exec-,ut',_ meeting here with Mrs. Rand and Mrs. Roylancc were .Mrs,n T. H

Hnggerty, Napanee, Ont.; -Mrs. Leonard Steeves, Surrey, N.B. “and Mrs. W. L Sask. 0

WiII‘Appoint I Concilidtor In Firen_1en’s Case

OTTAWA (CiP)——A federal con- ciliation officer will be appointed tovtry to help the CNR and the Firemen’s union settle their con- A reliable sources

said Thursday. ' Negotiations between the gov- ernment - owned, system and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- men and Enginemen (CLC) broke down Tuesday at Montreal, and the union asked the labor depart-

ment for conciliation.

The request was received Thur

,_ day and informants said later. it — is expected an expert will be ap- - pointed during the next few days.

‘ There was doubt as to whether the firemen want’ an officer to conciliate or a formal board Of

‘ conciliation—its request was und-

erstood to be indefinite—-but offi- cials decided to follow the‘n0r- malcourse of sending a single conciliator first. , ' '

It was expected he would meet

' the disputan-ts in Montreal. The

I . concilia-tor has not yet been se-

lected. .

Should he. fail. the probable next mdve would be a concilia- tion board. Its recommendations to Labor Minister Michael Starr -would not be binding-

Guests Crowd Queen Mother

Queen Mother’s secretar)’ and bodyguard had to call for help from the local police Thursday when -they were unable to force a passage through a vast crowd at a Government House garden party here. _

Lt.-Col. Martin Gilliat, the priv- ate secretary, and Detective-In

' spector John Wells were helpless

in the surge of thousands anxious to get close to the Queen Mother. Police parted a way for her. Before she appeared, 7,000 guests waited politely, leaving a, wide green stretch of lawn where the Queen Mother was -— in the- ory _— to stroll and receive pre- sentations. But on seeing the royal guest they swept forward across her path.

WATCHMAN WAS THIEF

GYNDIA, Poland (Reuters) — The chairman of the night watch- men’s co-operative here has been arrested—for being leader of a

get; of thieves. -

Howes, ‘Millet,’Alta.; Mrs.'James ‘:3

Clark, Conquest, D

» ‘President of the Y.‘ P. C.—’s' and

I He-said emphatically he did not

Prime Minister Diefenbaker said in Charlottetown last night he didn’t know whether the Lib- eral change in attitude was a ‘‘full scale repentance or the after effects of shock.”

He asserted that for‘ every Progressive Conservative reform that had been brought about since last June, the Liberals claimed, “it was nothing new. they had had the matter under consideration for the past two years”. In the case of the Prince Edward Island Causeway, he said, they have had that matter under consideration for the past 22 years.

Mr. Diefenbaker affirmed that he had fulfilled the majority of his election pledges but the Lib- erals in their platform promise, “to do nothing”. He said, “they advocate this, they favour’that; they would welcome this, or recommend that but when‘ it is all boiled down, they promise nothing”.

OVERFLOW ATTENDANCE

A crowd of about 1,200 heard the Prime Minister at the Rolla- way and a very large number ‘had’ to be turned away. Hon. Angus MacLean in introducing Mr. Diefenbaker said the Prime Minister was a friend among friends. He’ said the benefits received by the Maritime Prov- inces since Mr. Diefenbaker’s coming topffice were the great- est this part of the country had known since Confederation.

Mr. MacLean said it was a rare privilege to have the ac- quaintance of a man with the integrity, the ability and the de- votion to duty found in Mr. Diefenbaker. .

Short messages were heard from Heath Macquarrie, John A.

Macdonald and _a.. .welcome, from:

charges Oppositionwitli Many Inconsistencies

P. MacMil1an. He termed him as a "great Canadian” whose loss to the’ Conservative Party would be sorely felt.

He paid great tribute to the contribution the four I s l a h (1 members have made in the rec- ent parliament and said that a great many ofthe benefits that have been realized in the Mari- times could be directly attributed to their efforts.

HAVE NOT AREA

The Conservative Leader said it was a well known fact that the Maritimes for years had’ a much lower per capita income than any other part of Canada. He said it was 24 per cent less in 1946 and 33 per cent less in‘ 1956.

He felt that something must be done for this section of the coun- try and after receiving the agree- ment of the other Pre/miersthe sum of $25,000,000 per year for

the Maritime Provinces over and above what they had previously been receiving.

QUOTES PREMIER

“Our gratitude for, this can best be summed up by Premier Matheson who told the Liberal Convention at Ottawa when he said, “Diefenbaker is giving it to us, why can’t the Liberals do it. That is why we were defeated in the last election, we were only getting half a dea ”, said the Prime Minister.

Speaking of Liberal criticism regarding the dissolution of Par- liament, Mr. Diefenbaker recall- ed that Mr. Pearson after he had assumed the leadership of the Liberal Party immediately ask- ed that the Government give up the reins ‘tothe Liberals.’ “Yet

the next four years was granted»

he criticigzes us, ,a.,month later"

Ki!‘

_ . .. e. .liament,.eiid» . . 2 _ V '5.-.~ _ ,‘_W‘.‘vw rt .. v .1 ,. .. ,..z---’\ e_, . ., the, Provincial mrqgiessivejr Con- §';,..“;“° "°‘V._ llﬁgfg was askmg

servative Assocfatioif. a y o :- Edwin C. Johnstone who was to

‘ I T; given‘ a messa§é'*’lo£ wel- behalf of .the"Cl.ty‘ was

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guests"includvd§Mrs; , baker‘ who was lent-.ojf;,a.bouquet of yellow

incial’-President of the Progress- sive "Conservative Womerrs, ‘As- sociation; 'Dr. Orville Phillips, candidate from Prince ,Cou‘nty; W. R. Shaw, Provincial '

nald,

Mrs. John A. Macdonald.

Mr. Diefenbaker and his party were piped to theplatform by Pipe Major Wilfred Burke of Charlottetown.

LAST CAMPAIGN

Mr. Diefenbaker recalled that he started his last campaign in Charlottetown and the results of that campaign recalled a lasting inspiration. He referred to the Island as the home of the great- est Conservative. ‘ '

Mr. Diefenbaker made refer-

from Mrs- Don Lidstone, Prov‘-“ a member, ‘would provide for I

SUPPORT PRICES‘

Elaborating on thefarm price support bill,,_ Mr. Diefenbaker said it would insure the farmer of a fair return from his invest- ment. He‘ .,_explained that the setting upnof the advisory com- mittee of which Lincoln Dewar

the, effecting of such recom- mendations as from time to time the committee would see’ fit to make.

Mr. Diefenbaker said-the sup-

. port price wouldbe established

at the beginning of each crop year and would hear a fair rela- tion to that whichthe farmer has to buy.

In addition to this he said the bill would include income insur- ance for all farm commodities. “The day will never come when farmers will be asked to accept less than 80 per cent of the past 10 year average”, he added.

PRICE sounnzn

He stated that this was a wide improvement over the policies of the last Government in which farmers were caught in a price

ence to the passing of Dr. W. J.

(Continued on page 2 col. 5)

SASKATOON (CP) — Lester B. Pearson faced a large hostile ele- ment Thursday in a turn-outof some 600 University of Saskatch- ewan students but he received thunderous applause when he fin- ished.

As the Liberal leader entered the university’ Convocation Hall, jammed tight with students, he observed large photographs of Prime Minister Diefenbaker on the walls.

Four‘ students wearing black arm - bands appeared on stage bearing a coffin and the sign saying “Here Lies the Liberals, May They Rest in Pieces.”

Mr. Pearson walkedover to the coffin and put his foot on it. The applause started to roll. Then he sat on a table, swinging his legs and called for questions.

Most came from Opposition elements, students who supported the Progressive Conservatives and one who supported the Labor Progressive (Communist) party.-

RAP LIBERAL POLICY

Many included criticism of Lib- eral policy. Why had the Liberals not r e c o g ni z e d Communist China? Would Mr. Pearson’: pro- posed tax cuts be followed by tax increases-? Why had the Lib- eral leader injected international affairs into the election cam- paign? " . _

He answered all questions but one. He said he did not want to give his views on hospital insur- ance because he planned to make a major speech on this subject later in the-campaign .“and I want to save some ammuni- tion.”

Pearson Fqces Hostile Element But Gels Strong Applause I

consider peace an issue. All par- ties wanted peace. But he thought it was “legitimate” to bring out the point as to which party and which leader could do the best for Canada in international affairs.

As for recognition of Red China he, as external affairs minister, had received a lot’ of mail show- .ing there was ‘an “acute divi- sion” of opinion on the issue. There were other factors,‘ too, such as [United States opposition that he had to take into consid- eration. ‘ ‘

But if he became prime minis- ter March 31, he would plan to send a ministerial trade mission to Peiping, to work out some kind of trade deal with that country. Perhaps -the Chinese would not want the mission, but the Liber- als would propose it and “try to find out” whether the Chinese would be willing to receive one.

CUTS WOULD STAY

His proposed $400,000,000 worth of tax cuts would be for the dura- tion of the current “emergency situation.” A Lib e r al govern- ment would budget for a deficit as long as Canada was in an economic recession. If boom- timesand inﬂation returned, then it would budget for a surplus.

He would bring in a budget soon after Parliament met —-the earliest opening date appeared-to be May 5-—and make his propo- sal of scholarships, and bursar- ies and loans for university stu- dents part of that budget.

Students might not benefit by the loans proposal in the current term, but they certai-nly would benefit by the time the next

term began.