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f - ‘ : he / and instant majority rule exists. The “original target was to persuade Premier Smith and his followers to come to the conference table again. Mr. Wilsor has since declared blunt- ly that he ‘has>no confidence in

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The kernel of the problem, as the London Spectator pointed out recent- ly, is that treasonous or not, Smith to- day represents power in Rhodesia. There is no alternative power to him,

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| have taunted Britain with’ being pre- | pared to act in’ previous colonial | situations in a more aggressive man- ner than she is acting now in Rho- desia. But those situations were’very different. In Kenya, Nyasaland and Cyprus Britain was in a meaningful sense the governing power. Her re- pressive and security actions follow- ed naturally from that power. Her policy changed. of necessity, when this: power was eroded. It does not exist in Rhodesia, and only-a link be- tween London and Salisbury remains in the continued presence of Sir Humphrey Gibbs in Government House.

PAGE 4 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1965.

- Following Other Stars — American astronauts have achiev- | ..e@ the world’s first rendezvous in space, and it has rightly been hailed. as one of man’s greatest adventures. ’ The historic moment came yesterday about 185 miles above the Philippines as the two space chariots. Gemini 6 and Gemini 7, each with two astro- nauts aboard, hurtled along nose to nose at more than 17.500 miles an hour. They manoeuvred to within a ~ few feet of each .other, performing that-way for hours, as. gracefully as as, all in preparation for the on limitirig its pressure at present to more spectacular feat of getting tough sanctions. It believes that by the moon. | early next year the full weight of © That will require, first, the | economic deprivation will begin to be ty of a new project, ‘called , felt in Rhodesia, and that the govern-

eyor, to put a television camera | ment will be forced to come to terms. cee lunar orb. The newest target | This may prove a wrong assumption,

for the first of seven shots is but it has yet to be tested. Judging by the regime’s resort to higher taxes and other drastic measures, it would h, that “officials won’t even quote | seem that the pinch is already being on, success or failure.” But we | felt. . :

1 heat more about this venture in | Cause For Concern

the months ahead. , = Meantime we were struck by the It-is said that the finance minis- that when astronaut Frank ters from the ten provinces reached Borman needed to change the orbit | agreement last week on the need for 7 establishing priorities by all govern-

of Gemini 7 the other day he used 1 govern: méthod of ancient man—only the | Ments in respect of expenditures on

- | fixed stars were different. He point- | ed his capsule halfway between the | stars Denebola and Spica and aligned |

May and the difficulties are so t, says an Associated Press dis-

available funds. The agreed projec- tion of fevenues and expenditures will provide a starting point for the new tax-sharing arrangements be- tween Ottawa and_ the ’ provinces | which are to be negotiated in. the early part of 1966.

it-4.9 degrees right of Arcturus— lifing up on etched horizontal and __y@rtical. markings on his -spacecraft window. Dead on his star targets he | figed his rear thrusters for a set per- | fod and put the capsule in an orbit less of an-oval and more of a circle. >-Arcturus, the Guardian of the Bear, 80 times brighter than our sun “and 30 times bigger’in diameter, is mah’s present checkpoint in space, _ a& the Pole star has been in the ern hemisphere. Which prompts

‘finance ministers intend to hold a series of negotiating sessions during | the spring, before reporting to a full-

mid-year. That. meeting too; presum-

Parliament will be in the dark, and

the: Milwaukee Journal to predict, | So will the provincial legislatures,

with poetic fervor, that “‘time-will | until policy has been worked out and

e when it will be‘stars beyond | comes before these responsible, duly

, perhaps stars as yet un- elected bodies in concrete form.

known to us, that will be the guiding | By that time discussion will be ham-

stars.” There is something, at least, | strung by the fact that if the policy

fér-us to take hold of in the thought | in each case is defeated, so is the

man will use them as his ancient | government.

: epson used the stars of Ursa | This, we gather, is what our junior

jor to find the North star, their MP for. Queens, Heath Macquarrie,

el tial checkpoint. _ | meant when he expressed concern the

= We need all the anchorage we can | other day over “any trend that by-

from the past to keep from drift- | passes the elected- representatives of lessly in our imaginings

at-this new age, “still--ctimbing- r knowledge infinite,” is bent on lieving. ’

=-Rhodesian Headache

Prime Minister Wilson has made | lear that despite the pressure for | aggressive measures, Britain i adhere to its policy of using mctions against the white-minority R@odesian regime of lan Smith. How- r, these sanctions must be proper-

hind closed doors.” He is quite right | in being concerned, and we trust that he, and others of like mind, will be heard forcefully on the subject when Parliament convenes next month.

London or Washington, public debate on an issue is widespread and con- tains all shades of opinion.|In the end, a coalition of these points of view is achieved and, in a form that _all_concerned-can comprehend; the final legislation follows. Those who are governed by the law are at, least privy to its evolution. In Catiada, goes Britain has proposed. De- | these inter-governmental meetings gate all the big talk at the UN Gen- | are combining with the Cabinet form ai Assembly, only a few nations— | of government to prevent any serious Buding Canada—have so far co- | public discussion of specific issues ted fully with Britain in this | before an ultimate decision is slicy. ae | Yeached. : If action.on a properly coordinat- . We had a spate of these secret scale is taken in this manner, it | conclaves last. week. It is time for should be without further delay. | our Opposition spokesmen, federal Ofte African troops Have crossed the and provincial, to speak their minds nbesi to invade Rhodesia, as they | about them, and about the dangers threatened, war with ugly racial inherent in them from the demo- @rtones will have begun. And who = cratic point of view.

Se | EDIORIAL NOTE

” end? Britain is not depending on sanc- The Royal Ontario Museum has nounced that, after years of trying,

tigns alone, however. To counteract = the news censorship which has been ‘Sit has finally acquired specimens of | two Canadian birds which have long

int ef: within Rhodesia since Nov.

11, she is setting up a “bush radio” auk and the Labrador duck. They | were the last species needed to com-

im Beauchanaland to beam BBC | plete the museum’s collection of Can-

br@adcasts into the counry. Mr. Wil- i himself may take part in one of adian birds—by far the largest in the

Ritrated through the United Nations Seeurity Council, which could call on UN member nations to join in the

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Is it rasonable that 82 fare- paying passengers and three crew members should be delay- ed and even their lives endang- ered, for the convenience of a - Liberal Cabinet Minister travel. |

ling on a pass? |

While the loaded plane waited

g@um oned the stewardess for con- sultation. She then announced to the passengers. that take-off would be delayed 25 minutes, to awaita Liberal Cabinet Minist-

| ment, to the less significant 80-_ !room Prince Edward Hotel ip

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er who was booked o@ that flight whose connecting flight from the west was late.

Would Air Canada wait for Tom, Dick, or Harry? Why then wait for a Liberal Minister? The answer is because every employee of the Canadian Na- tional system, including Air Ca- mada, recalls With fear the case of Mr. Robert S. Pitt, MBE.

for take-off at Toronto, the pilot |.

“CAREER RECORD

Mr. Pitt was unlucky enough to be manager of the 260- room Fort Garry Hotel in’ Winnipeg on 10th September 1952. He had eérved as manager of the Nova Scotia in Halifax and the Bess- borough in Saskatoon in a fife- time of service broken only by five years voluntary enlistment in the army during the war. But on that day an event happened ‘which led to his “demotion”, John Diefenbaker told Partlia-

Brandon.

Across the nation newspaper headiines told’ the story, and bitter debates in the House of Commons saw Liberal Cabinet

tempers _| _mntil_,the: Liberal steam-roller | voted’ against ker’s motion to produce the pa- | pers, thus overruling the three |

John Diefenba-

Instant Memory * F Montreal Star When a substance from the | volved is ribonuciele acid, now |

bodies of ; jected into the bodies ‘of unédu- |

ies, some of the education ap-

| pears to be transferred at the |

been extinct. The birds are the great |

not the days of minority govern- nt!) to sweep, the! whole af- fair under the rug.

Prime Minister St. Laurent was touring the west: bad weat- her forced his plane to Jand | at Winnipeg; the pilot~ radioed a-

had other arrangements. Wh the party later arrived at Fort Garry, their last minute | peservations _were. delayed 8 minutes while the rooms were

Our Yesterddys

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (December 16, 1940)

Paris representative, ~ conferences with Marshal

TEN YEARS AGO (December. 16, 1955) Northern Ireland took over

| London’s Mansion House to con- fer upon 6ir Winston Churchill |

the freedom of the cities of Bel- fast and Londonderry. .

Opposition parties ‘those were |

head for hotel rooms for some | of the party, the prime minister |

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The lives of many | “*®s, I had no idea we enjoyed is starting the cthere are altered suddenly tbe it hall o much at the time.” | after third visit to « gouse profound changes in | Venssuver Gem, and discovering that the physical, emotional, s0- rious tick, , tick” has cial, and economic status. | Ben Berck, a Canadian chem- | ly — Dousman_ A stroke occurs when the | ‘st, says that we should take a | dex. a blood supply to a part of the leaf out of Asia's cook book and z brain is reduced or completely | ®t insects, such as silkworms | “A woman has ¢ much cut off. There are many causes | 9d caterpillars. We can see it | memory than a man," says a thrombosis or embolism) to a | Satchewan grasshopper.— Pet- | it's infallible fa man promises ruptured artery causing hemor- borough Examiner. - | her something—Times- Herald thage in the brain. Some vic- z tims are in excellent health at | Medical researchers say there They'd been “having the time of the cerebrovascular) is enough iron” in the ‘average | because he tame home eccident, others have high | human body to make a medium- |i’? Sai. “Well. et any blood hardening of the , 000 eee arteries, of the heart, | “20d nail. No precise estimate | snapped angrily. do calle and abnormal bleeding tenden- 8s yet been made of the | spade a spade.” “Maybe, cies, that contribute to their | @mount of wood the politicians | ry," his wife retorted; eusceptibility. believe is in the teed of the av. you dont call a ct 8, "| Mt te important to know the | St28° men = working: Rie (Pomel Mosse ate ego | monton Journal milton Spectator. ag ee a ee / . r : transient or ‘lit tle : / a 2 stroke” is of short duration and Ayu Khan Visit oms. all experience weakness Canes — han Wwe Washington . ‘ or paralysis of a limb that lasts : ! <a from a few minutes to several The vist te Washington of | triggered somewhat the I» FU ) " hours with complete .| President Ayub Khan of | dian-Pakistani war. ay t ' Others - dev transient blurr- | Pakistan signals a new phase| The current NATO tale im " ri ing of vision or blindness in one in President Johnson's leader- | Paris foreshadow the stiff atti- \ i eye. Changes in speech or per- | ship and one of vital interna- | tude the U.S. plans to take on PUL tS sonality _also.occur. These. tonal significance, certain jstues in 1966. ) changes are due-to a spasm or Wi a Johnson will NATO's own internal prob e . narrowing of an artery carrying have met Ayub Khan, Prime | lems have been sidetracked, , blood to the brain. Minister Wilson’ of Britain and | partly because of the French Pes : Repeated small strokes, ory; Chancellor Erhard of West Ger- | elections, and most emphasis — ‘ a — ‘| eomplete cerebrovascular acci- | Many- : seems to have been put on shor- = wing ~ | dents call for special X-ravs that | The following weeks and | ing up support for the U.S. is _ visualize the vascular potters to” ’ oe Mowr nage vo Viet we ‘acted ' “MORE OF A BOOMERANG EFFECT” Pe ts Gene ie'eomee: [a0 bon whe : ) eV yj AD re “it may be necessary to remove | &8 head of the major Western | The Johnson-Ayub Khan con- , the obstructing material or by- | Power. The primary, character- | versations this week have no pass the blockage with a graft. | istic is expected to be a tough- | direct bearing on Viet Nam. Jif the general health of the vic- ess in which the war in Viet- Pakistan is not in favor of the . tim does not permit surgery, the Nam more than ever’ is the | American role and keeps urging N P| F lj ° | as anti-coagulant drame ore on em | Firat of Oe Aenerices view. a the bombing o Place For Political Favoritism cellent. eobstiule, sire 78% | pore inthis diplomatic. hotbed stich the US. Is heoping te re ; ase caution against anticipating any | serve more to pacify world opin- vacated and cleaned. The follo- | ference, yet the Liberal Govern- stroke, early ‘activity. lo essen: | dramatic results other than | éon than in hopes it will work. | wing day Mr. St. Laurent visit- | ment believes’ it is an impertin- | tia] This means passive exer- | those implicit in the menace of | At stake with Pakistan are ed the hotel to address a meet- | ence for us to come into this | cise and early rehabilitation, &@ Much wider war in Southeast | relations which never have been ing there; he was surrounded by | House and criticize them.”’ Bést results are obtained when | Asia. ~ worse and the, future involves Liberal supporters in the ro-| With those events unforgotten |-the victim is convinced that he | PROBLEMS UNYIELDING further U.S. aid, the question of tunda; the manager of the hotel | wquid any Canadian National | hag something to live for and | They say the unyielding na- | Closer Pakistani ties with China Mr. Pitt, was separated from | official of Air Canada pifot dare | wil] improve via a well- planned | ture of most problems facing | and the prospect of settling. him by that throng of Liberals, | to inconvenience a Liberal Cabi- | program. ‘the U.S. or other nations makes | Pakistan's Kashmir dispute so he neither could shake his | net Minister? No doubt the mi-| FH writes: My sister was | this a logical assumption. with India in which Pakistaw hand to. welcome him nor escort | mister concerned in this case i‘homn with a hole, the size of a The point is that Presideent | has taken a more moderete line: him to, the elevator, knew: nothing of what was. hap- | pea, in her spinal column. Could | Johnson ts expected to be much | than India, ; ‘ BRIEF AUTHORITY pening. that is why I mention no | you tell me something about | more actively involved For Wilson, Rhodesia ts the | ,,.Then, as Parliament was told, | mame ~ but the damage done to | this? - He has been criticized to some |,énly new element and U.S. sup- some officious party slavey|CN and TCA morale by the in- | REPLY extent at home and abroad on | port toward breaking the ‘rebels a ee ae justice of the Pitt-case lingers | An opening in this area usual- | grounds of failing in first | seems certain to continue. But as 3 Oe ee on. \ly is caused. by incomplete or | full year as elected to | there is the question of continu- Fe pe cg ig So long as a Govern- | faulty closure of the two sides | provide adequate Western imit- | ing costly British military com- eee su bo ; 6 | ment is in power, fear of its | of the body at the midline. priog., iatives. and leadership. . mitments east of Suez, continu- Con eke iy cad i dreadful retribution will regu- | to birth. ‘Mais defects leads to| However, there was a design | ing support for the U.S. in Viet Saat ae ba ae ee Oe ee ee ee various disorders varying from.|.in his domestic preoccupations |Nam and perhaps sacrificing matter,” protested an angry Li-.| employee of the CN 4s | pilonidal cyst to spina bifida.” | this year, his supporters argue, | reluctance to see West Germany beral Transport Minister: To | the delay and danger of Flight | LENGTHY LIST ~ | pointing to the well-laid founda- | get closer te nuclear arms in whiek Tan te eee oe ae ‘ ted. 20 |. MW. J. writes Please list afl | tions for .a far-reaching legisia. | NATO. 2% fected : should be corrected. 90 | the foods that could cause ~al- | tive-program. Erhard, arriving at the week- bigger than Mr. Pitt; it raises | that the CN system can com- | io |. That_was. done ‘de end, is: anxious for political and ee tenet ees oe eS pete.on a fair economic basts, | : REPLY | diversions from the ‘hardening prestige seasons to get more of | Net of tir uas'at bower Great Se eee kel |: Tee aant tiene you go to a sup- | of the war in Viet Nam -to the | a say in NATO's nuclear struc- Celictie sat dtak ox Sa ane age. t_vctimized to eerve Li | ermarket. ask the manager hr oe ——_ ~ ture and the of Pte _ cat" | vento that will be it. | n decision whether recent U.S. proposal! of unwarrantable political imter- vanities. . bits ah omen hake clic most | new: American support for @ | to fob him off with less will be | food, strawberries, wheat, corn , Newfoundland Cows Saimin ies Lie cy : Hamion Bpectater | | BUMPED -- "His Hair Was Loose oats 6. F. writes What is a whip- | : ;

A. rectal sows, dats gives Gros Sewage a8 the edge el. the. | lash sack iajuer’ Winnipeg Free Press ‘ some prominence conce' roads in order to survive. REPLY | In On there discover diaph- last bit of paving, of the trans | This information should hard- _Theabest example ts the type wae Pauw his ce en ie vata sion Nir ain in & Canada highway in Newfound- | ly worry a tourist planning a (of injury that’ occ when @ ches across. His teacher grab- | the teacher has widened? :: land. motor trip acros Newfoundland. person is sitting in a stopped bed him by the hair and pul-| ‘The case for special. schools Released at the same time | In all of Newfoundland there | car which is struck suddenly | ed some of it out. ‘| for children who stand less thaa - but not given the same promin- | are fewer than 100 cows and | from behind by a moving vehi- ‘The school has decided to de- | six feet tall, weigh less than ence was another story about | though they could conceivably cle. The impact snaps the head fend the teacher (reports say) | 200 Ibs., and cannot floor the: Newfoundlanders seeking a be a menace on the roadé they | and injures the vertebrae, mus- |, because the boy's hair was “‘loo- | master with a backhanded belt, change in the archaic law that | couldn’t be the menace pedes- Cles, or tendons of the neck. se’ in any case. The loose hair | is overwhelming. The provin- gives cows the same it of | trians are. ‘ THE MASCULINE TOUCH _ thesis is based on a report by'| ces should start at once to dun way on the highways as pedes-; The danger on a cross-Cana- | R. E. writes. Is it all right for | the kind of expert who knows | the federal government to pro trians. The law will not be da motor trip is more liable to | @ woman to use a man's after- | when our hair is loose. They | vide the funds to build special changed. come from people in Ontario | shave lotion as a facial astrin- have, in short, called an expert | schools for what we thought” It seems pasture land in New- | walking on the roads than from | gent? | witness. ' | were our normal children but foundland ‘isso ecaree cows ' the Newfie cows. a _REPLY | The defense opens a tremen- | now we know them to be merely |. Yes, but she need not shave | dous field for action by the tea- | defective oe

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