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iiIasT‘sxictui.ti=7»-emrinrmsfisez. Talking Pialnly On his visits to Ottawa and Washington this week. British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas- Home showed a refreshing talent 1301' speaking plainly and to the point. He made it clear to the United States that Britain will continue trading with Cuba, nor would it in- dorse any move to impose boycotts or other discrimination on non- stxategic trade with the Commun- jgtg, He believed a well-fed Com- munist was less likely to remain A. fy-patical one. And for Canada he ‘ an equally strai',:hti'o1'ward ocsage on the sllb_iect. of trade.

cfi~This took the form of a notice

- Britain's intention to reduce 5':'a.rpiy her trading deficit with this country. A massive trade drive is to be launched this spring‘ with this objective. “I have made up ml’ mind," Sir Alec stated at a news conference in Ottawa. “that the situation must be rectified."

This, he emphasized. was indeed the only real problem between the United Kingdom and Canada. “O-ur exporters must improve their busi- ness methods." he conceded: “and you must give us fair conditions."

Britain’s case is that our anti- dumping legislation takes no ac- count at all of whether Canadian producers are being hurt by im- ports—t.he 10 per cent of Canadian consumption provision gives auto- matic protection to them anyway. It was “a curious thing," the Prime Minister said. that Britain. which had been able to crack “other very tough markets” in western Europe, hadn't been able to cut her trade deficit with Canada.

The situation is that. while Can- ada sells more than a billion dollars worth of goods to Britain. it buys little more than $500 million worth from British producers.

Towards the end of this month (Feb. 26-29) Canadian Trade Min- ister Mitchell Sharp will meet Brit- ish Board of Trade President Ed- ward Heath to discuss mutual trade firoblems. Sir Alec has plainly in- timated that this will be the Vital issue.

Brotherhood Week

Brotherhood Week was initiated Bixteen years ago by the Canadian Gouncil of Christians and Jews and is now widely supported across the country. Its purpose is to promote jtistice, amity, understanding and co-operation among Canada's racial, religious and ethnic groups and to analyze, moderate and finally elim- inate inter-group prejudices.

A tall order. the cynic will say. And indeed there are signs enough to show that these objectives are A long way from being realized on anything like a nation-wide scale. But lAst year more Canadians took part In Brotherhood Week activities than ever before, and plans for this year's observance, slated for next week, indicate that there will be still wider participation.

Perhaps the movement should dispense, now, with some of its high-sounding generalities. And con- centrate on specific problems. One Inch problem. of course, is involved in the demand of our French-spealh in; population In Quebec for A gator share of the Advantages accruing from Confederation. We dllouou this gllbly In terms of hi- And blculturnlilm. but It moons is thAt_wo have too

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of mutual ldnshlp--not: to speak of brotherhood.

Our newer ethnic groups Are not asking much of us-—only to be given A chance to show that they Ari: truly Canadian and qualify_As some- thing better than second-class citi- zens in this land of unbounded op- portunity. Here it is not our laws that are at fault but the conserva- tism of those of us who happen so have our roots A little deeper in the soil. Brotherhood Week is in- tended to remind us of the arti- ficiality of such distinctions.

Finally let us remember that brotherhood is something more than a sense of promiscuity, or even of national unity. It has profound religious connotations. and involves a concept much bigger than itself. We cannot logically claim all Cana- dians to be brothers without ac- knowledging that all men, every- where. are brothers. And we can- not talk about the brotherhood of Man without presupposing, in some form or other, the fatherhood of God.

This Is A truth which—as the historian Arnold Toynbee has point- ed out—lnvolves the converse pro- position that, if the divine father of the human family is left out of the reckoning, there is no pos- sibility of forging any alternative bond of purely human texture which will avail by itself to hold mankind

together. Or even Canadians to- gether. for that matter. This. we are led to conclude,

is at the core of the Brotherhood Week campaign—which is not so much 8. campaign as a creed. A creed to which all men and women of good will can subscribe, and which can be brought to fruition only by passionate belief in its ver- ity and its efficacy. '

Dental Legislation

It is interesting to note that In the Nova Scotia Legislature this week. second reading was given to a bill to establish A dentist-operated prepaid, non-profit dental service for the Atlantic Provinces. It is in- tended, in the words of Health Minister Donahoe, to pave the way for the day when dentists would participate in 3 general service of this kind.

The bill states that the cor- poration to be set up under its provisions "may arrange with den- tal associations in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island to provide dental care in these provinces either in co-opera» tion with these associations or in- dependent of them."

The corporation would also ren- der assistance to the federal and Nova Scotia governments in the im- plementation and operation of na- tional or provincial health plans. and in the promotion of dental educational and preventive pro- grams. It would arrange contracts with individuals and members of groups to provide them with pre- paid dental care. contract with legally qualified dentists in the province to provide the care to sub- scribers. and arrange for similar provision of dental care outside the provnice.

A similar plan for prepaid medi- cal services, it is noted in the press report. has been operated by Nova Scotia doctors for some years under the name of Maritime Medical Care Incorporated.

EDITORIAL NOTES

During 1963 some 14 profes- sors, Along with 20 students, at some risk to themselves, escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. These latest figures bring the total of refugees from Soviet higher educa- tion in the last six years to 1.710. Nearly one-third of these were pro- fessors or lecturers.

The exchange of compliments between the leader of the Govern- ment and the leader of the Op- position in the Legislature this session was sold to partake of the spirit of our Confederation centen- nial observance. That may be; but we fancy it would have astonished our parliamentarians of a century Ago, who spent little time on such preliminaries in delfing political issues. Their Att _,-towards op- ponents was more a that of the’ woman at 8 political meeting who :Ald: "I'm not prejudiced At All. I'm here with A perfectly open And unbiased mind to lllten to whst I Am convinced is put: rubbish.”

TEA FOR TWO

BRITISH COMMENTARY Geneva Conference Possibilities

By W. N. Ever Unlted Kingdom Information Service:

Geneva Disarmament Conference has opened its sec- ond year with A somewhat in- creased expectation of achieve- ment. The Sovlet- Western at- mosphere is better than A year ago. There is the definite suc- cess of the Moscow tesl- ba n treaty. Has that. opened the way to some further advance?

It is. of course. universally ac- cepted that the goal is "com- plete and general disarmament“ but no realist expects that the Geneva Conference will produce, this year. an agreed draft pro- gramme covering the whole field. .

But can it produce specific agreements on specific mal- lers? Could perhaps. A “partial" test-ban treaty be followed by practical disarmament. measur- es short of A treaty? That, even though limlted. would be A maj- or achievement— something not yet. accomplished by any disar- mament conference in history.

'1 have in mind four possibili-

ties.

The first is the Soviet propos- al. in Mr. Khrushchev‘: New Year‘s Eve letter. for A new in- lernational agreement repudiat- ing the use of force in the settle- ment of territorial dispute: and frontier problems.

This is perhaps not, strictly speakintz. A measure of “disar- mamcnt" but anything wh i c h could help to reduce lenslons would help towards disarma- ment.

In their replies both Presldenl. .Iohnson and Sir Alec Douglas- Home have made the same points. In the words of the Bri- tish Prime Mlnister. the Khrush- Chev proposals would "need to be expanded if they are to con- tribute to the solution of the real problems of our times". RULED OUT

It would be essential to rule out not only “overt mllltary ac- lion". Danger can also c ome from "the promotion of unrest or the subversion of authority" by action from outside. “Infill- ration for subversive purposes I: at the present time more com- mon and no lea: dangerous llhan overt attack.

Now that is something which the Soviet Government should surely be ready to discuss And negotiate. If my memory I: not at fault. it was they who first pointed out the need, in Any non- aggression pact. for A definition of “aggresslon". It might be well worth while for F o re I an

Ministers t.o look up the draft presented by Maxim Litvinov to an earlier Disarmament Confer- ence in

Here. then. it seems to me. Is one Aubject on which agreement should surely be possible.

A second is the establishment, in each other‘: territory. of “ob- servation posts" as A safeguard Against “surprise attack". This suggestion goes back to 1955. It is in both the American and So- viet plans now before the Gen- eva Disarmament Conference.

But the trouble ls. to judge by what Mr. Tsarapkln has told the press. that the Soviet Govern- ment seems inclined to link this (which should be perfectly fea- sible on its own) with its de- mand for the withdrawal of all troops from all “Foreign Terri- tory" (whlch is known in Mos- cow to be perfectly unacceptab- lel.

SAME RUSSIAN DEMAND

Indeed. I find It worrying that. on any And every occasion dur- ing the past ten years. the Rus- sians have injected this demand into discussion after discussion. It wa: pointed out to them in 1954- And many times since — that It could not possibly be ac- cepted. since It would mean the complete disruption of the whole Western Defence System i n Europe.

In 1962 they Agreed that. pend- ing complete disarmament. any disarmament measures must be of a character which would not significantly disturb the existing balance of military power. Yet they keep on repeating this, or kindred proposals. which would not merely disturb but entirely upset that balance.

But. if only they would not in- sisl. on linking the possible to the impossible, surely agreement on A system of mutual “observa- tion" should not prove too diffi- cult. Thlrdlly I take the point of “non-dissemination" of nuclear weapons to powers not now pols:

sessing them. Here It may

that Russian apprehensions that the proposed NATO "multilater- al force" would in fact give West Germany control of nuclear wea- pons are quite genuine. T h At seems to me a matter for quiet discussion rather than for heat- ed polemics.And quiet. discuss- ion might provide an answer.

Last. and linked with this. Is the American proposal for A “bonfire" to obsolete long-range bombers. The object, to ensure that they do not pass into lh a hand: of countries for w h i c h (though “obsolete" in great po- wer terms) they would represent A new potential against their immediate neighbours.

That surely should be quite possible. But. again the Russian response seems to me to insist on linking the practicable with the impracticable. The Soviet counter- proposal is for the im- ‘ mediate destruction of all long- . range bombing aircraft by A I l I nations everywhere.

Whether or not it is really do- sirable to abolish “n uc lear" planes while still retaining “nuc- lear" missiles is A question for argument by experts. But surely this is beside the point. The point

is that it is politically outside all possibility that. such a world -; wide agreement should be nego- l tiated within any forseeable time I by the Geneva Conference. I

Which bring: me back to my l main point. That Is that. As Bis- I marck shrewdly noted. “politics is the art of the possible".

There I: surely. between these American and these soviet pro- posals. enough c o m m o n denominator". to make s om a progress possible this year. And even some progress would be 8 tremendous gain. But for this, we must isolate the pass I ble from the Impossible. and concen- trate on posslbllilies. That Is the essential condition for Any Achievement.

ENVOY REPORT!

OTTAWA lOPl—AmbA::Ador Karl Torsion Tlkanvaal-A of Finland prucnted his letter: of credence to Governor-Genel-Al Vanler l_n A brief ceremony at Government Home Friday. Mr. TlkanvAArA, 52. ha: been A member of the Finnish foreign service Alnco 1937 And served in Pal-l:. Bucno: Alrel. Genevu And Cologne.

DEMOLITION LONG OVER-DUE

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MERCY l'LIGll‘l‘8 Slr. — I have been followln

with Interest the comma :, etc. on the "mercy fll|ht:", And not- : th . A summenldc doctor recently refund to put hl:

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Remedies‘ For Warts

By Dr. 'l'hoodo:-A It. VAADAIIAA

The Ruuluu report ulllll liquid nitrogen to remove mm from the face. hAnd:. Ind feet- One or tw 0 Application: A re given for those on the has And up to three on the hAnd:. Many more Are needed for pI:ntAr warts on the Aolel. According to the :tory In A recent I::uc Medical World New:.

We wrote About thl: met h od In 1956. Dr. Wnyne Wright of 0Akl:nd. CAI. analyzed the re- Aults of eight different remedies on A group of 451 plantar wArt pAt1ents.I-le found llquld nitro- gen uuperlor to electrocautery.

lety of :ub:tAnce:. Within as nltro

w :cAlpel blade. The cure rate wA: 78.7 per cent.

Mon than A year Ago we wrote About the hot water tech- nlc. The warts Are soaked f o 1- An hour or more and the trick I: to keep the temperature of the water between 113 And 118 degree: 1-‘. Several immersion: Are necessary. We have n of seen A follow-up report on this method but It harmleu And worth trying on youngsters with zlumberous wart: and plenty of hue.

The trouble with trying to ev- aluate these therapies I: that warts — or their owners — are so susceptible to suggestion. Warts have disappeared after rubbing with a kernel of c o rn or in potato peeling, provided the victim is convinced of th e magic power of the :ub:tAnce. Good results from more scien- tific treatments may have the same psychological basis.

The psychic effect is difficult to understand because warts Are caused by A virus. They are slightly contagious and prefer areas of skin subjected to injury or prolonged pressure. This may explain why the fingers. hands, and wrists are the in 0st frequently Involved sites. The majority reach a certain size and stay that way for months or years. They are more Annoy- ing than serious but the tendency is to toy with them until they become irritated or infected. Removal is recommended when they are unsightly or located in an area likely to be irritated.

REDUCING TENSION M.M. writes: How do tran- quilizers help high blood pres- sure?

REPLY Many factors contribute to-

ward raising the blood pres- sure. T h e list includes hor- mones. enzymes. c h e m icals

such as salt, and disturbances of the heart and kidneys. T nervous system also plays A role and It is here that tranquil- izers enter the picture by lessen- ing Anxiety and tension And promoting rest and relaxation. DON'T GUESS

M. T. writes: Is it A sign of diabetes to be sleepy all the time. regardless of the amount

eep obtained? REPLY

T sis one symptom of un- controled diabetes and A sim- ple urine test at this stage of the diesease will Answer the question. Eld e r l y diabet I cs tgftetn are drowsy after break- as .

DON'T STRAIN . M. writes: Is constipation in A heart patient symbolic of Anything?

No. It is treated usually In the same way as in the noncardi ac

patle NOISY AIDS P.U. writes: Is it harmful to wear a heart n g Aid dur I ng A thunderstorm?

REPLY

No. but switch If off. This device A m pll fles sound and loud, crackling nolsel over- stlmulate the ears. TodAy’: HeAlth Hint-—

You live only once.

Our Yesterdays (From the Guardian FlIeA)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (1-‘elmllry 15, 1989) Freak weather was experienc- ed in Prince Edward Island to- day A: A soft warm :outh- WON. wlnd. cut rApIdly Into the :now blanket over the province. The temperature climbed from Above zero early this morning to 44 Above at 8 o'clock thl: even- lng According to record: At the Station. _

Requiem High Maue: were offered for the repose of of Pope Plus XI In Romln Cath- ollc Churche: throughout Prlncc Edwa

mar which were duped In pur- ple And blAck.

TEN YEARS AGO

powerful voice produced mood: urylng from the highly comic to the deeply dr:mAtlc.

Mr. Everett MAcNelll W A I

quot vs: prulded over by the i-ctlirlns pruldent Jolumlo Inc- In: I.

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NOTES BY‘

THE WAY“

Extracted from court r.-AA: Ao- poz-l.Ad.lA Croydon, England. Ml- vcrtlurz At one point during Reovu’ evidence, Mr. John clAy. prmccutlnz, and: "Arc y o u mokinz up your evidence A: you so Along?" Replied Rcovu: you think I could nuke up All thou lle:?"— New StAtA:mAn.

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luau AACAI-Au. who 5.... smoking when la was 15 you, old but decided I {Ow you. I” or flat It VIII A bad hAblt, mm. A determined effort to give It up A! hl: recent bIrthdAy he Hf nounced that In bu flnllly Au¢. ceedod. And hA: no more de:u-: Mr. Andenou I: la

:moltA. yen: old.-— Copcnhuen Press,

Sir Alec’ At Imbington

y lhrod CAAAIIIAA Pm: staff Writer

The Anglo-American Aummlt conference In: shuttered Any remAlnlng U.s. lllullon: till! the Allie: Aomehow could be persuaded to co - openta In mounting An economic blocludc Against Cuba.

Ju:t before Prime Minluer Slr' Alec Douglu-Home And President Jdlnuon beun their lwo - day tA1k:. there were widely-clrculnted Amerlcu re- port: thnt the Johluon Adminis- tratlon planned to exert new pressure on the Allie: to restrict trade with the Castro regime.

But In his private discussions with Johnson And Ill: public Atatementl later, Slr Alec made clear Britain wAntcd no put of discrimination. restriction: or boycott: on trade with Cuba or any other part of the Commu- nlst camp.

In fact. ‘Britain planned to step up trade with the Commu- nists. rather than reduce trade. Britain lived by trade. he said, And Brltaln believed A fat Com- munlst Is less likely to be Ag- gressive than A lean. hungry one.

COMMUNIST CONTRACTS

Moreover. in response to the U.S. plea that the Allies refrain from providing extensive credit to the Communists, Sir Alec said Britain hope: to lAnd A number of new contracts In Moscow, Including chemical plants. And BrllAln’s credit terms in those cases might be extended to 12 or 15 years from the present five.

All this is rather hArd for the Johnson Administration to Iwallow at A time when the president face: increasing pres- sure At home to do something About Premier Fidel Castro‘: regime. whose Actlons. such As cutting off the water supply at

the Gumtcnuno IlAvAl bu. continua to Add to Amcrlcut polltlcal embnrrulmcnt.

Minister. Slr Alec hiked Iuvlng Achieved hmony with Johnson on the world’: bl;

que:t1on:. but up two lender: dlflcr on wlm thou bl] question: mAy be.

Bl-ltAln Agreed to Iupport Am. el-Icon mllltsry policy In South Vlet NAm: to

barulnins this you And to purluc with ths U.S. Any opening: thAt may lead to more Ann:-control ac- tion: with the Soviet Union.

DISAGBEE ON CUBA

But slr Alec did not see eye. to-eye with Johnson on Cuba, or on Communis China, or nn

. Admittance China to the United Nations; Sir Alec Aald such Admittance would be I good thing.

The U.S. maintains A ban on All American trade with China and wants an allied economic blockade Against Cuba: Sir Alec nld Britain doesn't believe in blockades.

The U.S. wAnt: to :00 Britain fully support the proposed sss. going. mixed-man North Allan- tlc nuclear force: Sir Alec Aald the proposal ha: polltlcal ad- vantages bul he still Isn't :ur: of its mllltary merit.

It appears that In their first formal encounter. the prime minister And president slzed each other up: pledged to keep

nglo - American AlllAnc: strong but virtually made no changes In the policies that existed before the hilt: began.

Different Census Figures

Port Arthur New: Chronicle

In discussions About speaking English and French that A to now going on in Canada. fre- quent mention 1: made of the bloc of “five or six mllllon".CAn- adian: who belong to no I ther tho Enlgvllsh nor the French lan- guage groups.

here is no such bloc of this size in Canada. The common er- ror Arlses from two different sets of census flizures. The num- ber of people is country whose mother tongue is neither English nor French is 2.454.562 taccording to the 1961 census). There are. however. 4,701,228 people in this country whose eth- nlc origin is neither French nor English. To show how confused the picture really is. there are 32.925 persons of British ethnic origin who spea no language but French!

There is B lhird significant fig- ure. The number of 10 who Apeak neither Englilh nor French but the lulgusgs ms: is Indicated by their ethnic origin is only 1.987.954. In other words. there Are 466.608 person: :pe_Ak- In; neither French nor English who do not :peAk the language of the country Indicated by their ethnic origin. Somehwere Along the line they have picked up A different one.

For example. the Ingest of Canada’: :o-cAlled “other ethnic

of German ethnic origin And mo- ther tongue.

T110 mlktup. by mother lon- lue. of whAt hA: been refund to A: A third llngulotlc "bloc" I: this: Chinese. «.099: Flnnlnh. 44-785: German. 563.713; IndIAn And E:klmo lAnguA¢e: 106.531:

ItAliAn. 339.006: Japmcse, l7_.* 856: MagyAr tlncluding I-Iunaar. lanl 85.939: Nethel-lAnd:, 170.177; Polish 161,720: Rus:lAn.42,903; ScAndinAviAn Imguages, 115, 714: Slovak. 42,546; Ukrginian (Including Buloovinim. GAlician And Ruthenium. 361.496; Yiddish 82.448: Serbo- Croatian. 28.086; 14.997: Lettish. 14,062: Syrian Estonlnn. 13.830: Lllumlnn And Arabic. 12.999; Creek, 40.- 455: Roumanim. 10.165: GAellc, 7-5331 Wtlsh. 3.040: Flemish. 14,- 304: And other: In :mAller numbers.

All this may not clarify the situation very much. But It does show the danger l.hAt lie: in maklng sweeping . Atatement: About who speak: what in thin country.

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