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PAGE 4 FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1958.

Another Trouble‘ Spot

News correspondents on the spot in the Middle -East seem to think that Kuwait may be the next target of Egyptian-Iraqui intrigue. SOme are suggesting that the Iraqui re- volutionists will attack the little Sheikdom soon. 3 "

Kuwait is a'British Protectorate and has been since the turn» Of the century. It is slightly smaller in area than this Province and has a'popé ulation of approximately 200,000, many Of whom are native Iraquis. Its importance lies in its rich Oil de- posits, the richest in the Middle East. It is ruled, with advice and help from Britain, by a Sheik bear- ing the fancy name Abdullah as- Salim as-Sabah‘——wtho, no doubt, claims to be a descendant of the ,prophet Mahomet, as most of the native rulers in the region do. His income from Oil wells, which owned jointly by British and Amer- ican interests, is reported to be in the vicinity of $260 million a year. Unlike that Old rascal King Saudi of

Saudi Arabia, hoWever,’ he shows some interest in the welfare Of his. subjects, One-third of his income

goes to public welfare—health, roads, schools: and the like—.—one-

third to administration of the Sheik» ' dam and the rest to his, private ,

purse. That gives him about $85 million a year to come and 'go on;

and it seemsl hardly likely that he,

will give that up for promises of rewards from the wily President Nasser. President Nasser, however, has been visiting the Sheik in re- cent days; and Heaven only kn0ws what they concocted.

In the event of a coup in Ku- wait or an outright attack from neighbouring Iraq, the British can be expected to take all measures

necessary. to defend their interests , there, no matter the UN. I,

may Say and no matter what side Abdullah as;Salim as—Sabah may be on. ’

The Labrador Trough,

Big doings, are under way in La- brador, according to an article in a recentlssue of “Mining Engineering”, the official magazine of the Society of Mining 'Engineers of the American Institution of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. Already the magazine reports, the Labrador Trough “is one of the world’s great iron 'ore provinces.” ,

“Already occupying fourth place in world iron.Ore production, Canada, with 21.3 million tons in 1957, soon will receive a major boost from this 25 to 40 million ton production aimed for in the Mt. Wright-Wabash Lake area. Access lies in either a spur con-

nection to the East, joining the Que— I

bec North Shore and Labrador Rai1~ way at about the 200 mile point on its way North to Knob Lake, or con- struction South to join Quebec Car- tier’s' proposed railroad near Mt. Reed. ' “Quebec Cartier Mining 09. a wholly owned subsidiary of US. Steel Corporation, is working on plans to— ward construction Of a mill capable of producing 8 million tons a year of concentrates from about 20 million tons of crude iron ore. Part of I the project is a 175,000 h.p., power def velopment harnessing the Hart Jaune River. The largest property ever leas- ed for iron ore reserves by Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation sprawls- over a, 5640-acre plot in Northern Quebec’s Mt. Wright area. In this sparsley wooded land, under the mus~ keg of the Labrador Trough, about 1 billion tons of crude ore containing 335 million tons of concentrates have already been proved by diamond drill- ing. Once developed, the/ore will’ be used as feed for blast furnaces at Pittsburg and Cleveland. In the ad- joining area to the East, Iron Ore Co. of Canada and Wabash Iron Mines are going ahead with other projects.” Commenting in the same 'issue on all these developments and projects, P.E. Cavanagh of the Department of Engineering and Metallurgy, Ontario Research Foundation, states that “production of iron ore will be export- ed to the United States, with some of it going to Europe. In this situation, it is logical and proper at the present

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time for Canadians to consider means of converting some of this Canadian ore into semi-finished or finished pro- ducts in Canada.”

This is something which should be given immediate attention. The practice Of sending vast amounts of raw material to other countries year after year for processing cannot be economically sound.

Religion In Ru55Ia

A group of American clergymen, including the Rev. Dr. John Suther-l land Bonnell, who had visited the Soviet Union and other Commun- ist countries, regorted on their re- turn to New York that “despite the efforts of an atheistic Government, the spirit of religion persists among the Russian people”. Dr. Bonnell ob- served that “every Sunday the chur- ches in Moscow were packed to .the doors”. Another member 00 the group expressed the Opinion that the Government “seems resigned to fail-- ure in its, efforts to stamp out re- ligion”. - ‘

This, in the main, accords with

{information received from ‘ other

sources; and there is nothing par- ticularly surprising about it. After all, the Russian people have a rich religious heritage. It would be s’ur- prising, indeed, if religious influence had been rooted out completely in forty years.

As to the future of the Churches in Russia, the prospects are not bright, assessing the situation in terms of- human expectations. It, may be that theGovernment is not “resigned to failure“ in its efforts to stamp out religion but is patient- ly looking to anti-religious pressure to take its course. No young person. can be 'a churchgoer and, at the same time, a member of the Official Young Communist organization; and no church member can be a mem- ber of the party in good standing. It remains to be seen whateffect these restrictions will have on the next generation or the generation after that. 'But it is hard to see how it can I »‘ to be destructive,to or- Eanized religion. f

EDITORIAL NOTE “Nova Scotia’s, Highways Minis- ter says that only “pure, unadul- terated courtesy” will reduce the traffic toll. If he is right, we can

expect , conditions to get worse all '

the time; for courtesy is losing ground everywhere. A member of Parliament wants

to know why there are ‘no oysters '

to speak of, in Nov‘a;ScOtian waters. That’s easy. They like the warm comfortable Waters around Prince

1 Edward Island so well that they

don’t bother with less hospitable re- gions. a 4 *‘ ~ It is a high tribute to the su- periority. of RE. Island YOrkshires that they should be sought after by the Swedish, Department of Agricul- ture. This is perhaps the first move- ment of Canadian swine to Europe and it may spark a permanent trend if the Island; breeding stock comes up to expectations. . 4 4 * The Canadian National Railways survey of the industrial potential of Charlottetown is to be welcomed. It will be carried on as' part of an At— lantic Provinces economy-boosting project by the railway. supported by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council and it'is expected to provide a basis for development of industrial

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and 'cgmmercial sites.

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According to the Hansard report of the House of Commons debates for July 18, Agriculture Minister Hark- ness attributed the , delay in settling”. the potato situation here to “the Provincial Government and/or the potato association in that'Province." We cannot imagine the Minister us— ing such an expression as “and/or” in an offhand statement to a ques- tioner; it has all the earmarks of hav— ing been cautiously revised for publi- cation. As it stands, it doesn’t mean much one way or the other.

‘ . 4F 4F. t Two years ago Nina Ponomareva, Soviet, Olympic discus throwen,- was charged with shoplifting five cheap

' hats in London. She was convicted

but released after the Soviet em- bassy paid court cOsts. Now Olga

»Lepeshinsaya, a star Of the Russian

Bolshoi ballet, has been caught in a Brussels depart- ment store. According to police, she admitted taking two pairs of gloves, an umbrella, cuff links and some tape. The Russians really ought to make their own stores more at- tractive from the feminine point of View; then there would be less temp-

tation to shoplifting abroad.

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The United States now finds herself in conflict with the Unit- ed Nations on an important is— sue. <

All observatiofi group of like

banon to determine whether there were signs of any interferencein Lebanese affairs by Nasser’s Unli- ted Arab Republic. In summariz- ing the findings of this commit- tee, Dag Hammarskjold, secre bary - general of the United Na- tions said: “To my knowledge we have no foundation for such a judgment now."

The difference of viewpoints is impoutant. The United States has sent troops‘in’co Lebanon on the ground that jthe interference in that country by Nasser Inow asks that a force of the United Nations take over this role firom her. ,

.But‘Mr. Harmnamskjold has al- ready more than hinted that the United Nations can scarcely send a force to prevent the interfer- ence of the. United Arab Repub- lic, when its own observation group has just’ reported that it could find no evidence of such serious interference.

STRONG EVIDENCE

The ‘ United States however, would scarcely have entered Le- banon without evidence that the interference loom Nvasser’s UAR was very real. She has released her own statement of this evi- dence. The odmltrast with the re- port of the'United 'Nations’ obser- vers is striking.

The Unitcd States has evidence

“indirect aggression” against Le- ‘banon by Egypt and Syria. All thwe incidents took place since May 11. The. incidents include shipment, by land and by sea, of fighting men and munitions, the instigation of, strikes and civilian unrest, the provision of huge sums of muney, and the supply- ing of regular army officers to direct events. ' ,

Documentary evidence of these incidents was supplied to the Sen: arte Foreign Relations Committee by Mr. Christian Herter, {the un- der secretary of state.

SIMILAR EVIDENCE

It is important to note that the British Govannmemt has gathered similar evidence. Speaking as long ago as May 26, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, said that Britain had

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“clear evidence” of outside inter- vention in Lebanon. '.

lt ls possible to go much furth- er back. Throughout the year 1956 Nusser’s Military Attaches were so actively engaged in sub- verting neighboring Arab states that Nasser received one request after another that they be- with- drawn. V v

0n the night of Nvember 22-23, 1956 for instance, 3: Lebanese se- curity patrol seized a petrol lank— er filled with arms. It has just come over the Syrian border lrom Damascus. Also discovered in one one of the official cars of the Egyptian Embassy in Beirut was a quantity of high explosives, complete with fuses. OTHER ,EVIDENCE

0n the night of November 20, 1956 a lorry, loaded with high ex- plosives and small arms, .was found in the house of the chauf- feur of the Egyptian Assistant Military Attache in Lebanon. oth- er depots of arms were found in two Lebanese villages.

A oartoOn in the Lebanese press showed Lebanon being stabbed by a figure representing dead: and having the "face of the Egy- ptian Military Attache. The cap- tion read: Whois the Brutus who is stabbing Lebanon?”

Also as for back as 1956 Milk ser was using the Egyptian Milli- talry Attaches.‘ to subvert the Gavernment of Iraq -— a Govern- ment has just fallen. On January 8, 1956 the Iraqi Minis- ter of the Interior reported that the police had uncovered a net- work of subversive activities ~— activi‘tlies that had been going on under the direction vof “another Arab state.”

NOT IN DOUBT

The. identification of ‘this state was not left in doubt. The Gov- ernment of Inaw felt called upon to demand that the Egyptian Gov- ernment recal it’s Military At- tache, flout-Col. Kama] Hen— . nawy. The aim of the Egyptian plot, it was alleged was to as- sassinate Iraqi statesmen.

If the subversive activities at Nasser’s military attaches in 1956 are any indication of indirect alg- greasion still to come, it is inter- esting to recall that demam' ds that Egyptian attaches be with- drawn on account of subversive activities, were also made in that year by Libya, Saudi Arabia and Abyssinia,

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Ottawa

The first annual report of the Canada Council is a fascinating primer in practical philanthropy. To those of us whose financial worries are usually in the other direction, it is somewhat corn- forting to learn that those who are committed to the distribu- tion of largesse have problems

ing to know that the Council is bestowing iitls favors with prud-' ent circum’spectiocn.

The Council seems to have‘had less difficulty in disbursing casp- itlal grants to the universities than in deciding the recipients of awards and fellowships from its Endowment Fund. In the first year 12 universities received a total of $4,084,800. With 10 years to dispense $50,000,000, the Coun- cil appears to be nicely on sche— dule. COUNCIL TASK

The $50,000,000 Endowment Fund, however. enjoys an inter- est of more than $2,700,000 in year: The task of the Council was to find deserving candidates individuals and organizations, to share the bulk o‘f this revenue.

The problem the Council had first to settle was how it wan-

tions' as these: How should the money be divided among the arts humanities and social sciences? What proportion of money should be spent on organizations and how much on individuals of pro- mise to improve their ability? Should the Council meet the cost of maintaining a local alctivityl like a museum. library, choir or I theatre group which has ‘previous- I

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ly received local support? However the Council resolved such questions, it does report that there was no difficulty in find- ing candidates which merited sup- port. The real problem was “to arrive at priorities so as to get the best value for the money”.

LARGE SURPLUS

It is here that the Council ac- ted with haps what proved to be embarfig‘ssing prudence. lt re- ports that in every category of scholarship in 1958 “there appear to be several qualified applicants for each award". Yet the Endow- ment Fund ended the first year with the rather large surplus of $771,871.

This money is of course avail— able for grants in the future. How- eveg, it is unfortunate that some . of ast year’s “qualified appli- cants” must mark .time when money is available immediately.

But this is to quibble. The re- port stands as tangible testimony to the enlightened swiftness with which the Canada Council has acted. Where a year ago there was noghing but intention, there is now a record expeditious ac- tion. It has been a propitious be- ginning.

I , BACK ARMS CHECK

NEW YORK, -— (AP) - Inter- national. inspection to enforce disarmament will work a Col- umbia University student re— ports. More than 50 scientists. engineers and social specialists poured their efforts into the study, made public Tuesday.

IPUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discus- sion by correspondents of question of interest. The Guardian does not nelso- sarlly endorse the opinion at corres- pondents. ,

POTATO SUPPORT COMPARISON .2

' Sin—Potatoes have been sup- ported under the Agricultural Prices Support Act ‘for the crop years 1946, 1948, 1950, 1955 and 1956 previous to the support guy-

‘en in 1957. In addition, potatoes

have come under the Agricultur- al Products Comparative Marinat- ing Act, which Act is basically not designed for support but pay-

ments were made’which had the

efifect. of some support in con-'-

nection with the 1950 and [1953

crops. ,' With respect to levels, various

methods of support have been

'used with different types of costs

insofar as the Government was cOncerned. . ,

1946 Program: Potatoes deliv- ered for princes” sing—«guaranteed price of $1.65 per barrel at foe-

tory for Canada No.1 grade. Po-“

taotos, delivered for export or other shipment—41.00 per :75 pound bag on car at shipping point bagged, tagged,and inspec- ted. Total cost of this program to the Government was $170,743.- 48. ‘

1948,Progrnm: $1.15 per 100 pounds in bulk on the grower-’3 farm.The.tolaloostoftahispro- gram to the Govermncnt was $1.646?73934. ' ,

1950 Program: 60 cents per

[barrel on potatoes delivered und- ‘er the Agricultural Products Co»

operative Marketing Act guar- antee, which guarantee also a- mounted to 60 cents per barrel. The total cost to the Govern- ment of the support of 60 cents per barrel amounted to $218,637.- 79. The cost under the Coopera- tive Marketing Act was -approx- ’imutely $50,000.

1953 Program: Under the Ag- ricultural Products Co-opemtlive Marketing Act the Government guaranteed an initial advance of 40, 50 and 55 cents per bushel in P.E.I. and 40, 45 and 55 cents per bushel in NB. for different time periods. The total loss und- er this program was approxim- ately $5 million. g

1955 Program: $1.00 per barrel of 165 pounds for potatoes de-

livered to starch plants less what'— ‘

ever the Government could re— cover from the starch plants. The toms] goveth cost of this program was $4,830.77.

1956 Program: Support price

‘ based on $1.65 per barrel pro-

viding the consumer market re- mained at a price of 3/1; cents per pound or higher on average up to June 15. This was based on potatoes delivered for processing with the Government to pay the difference up to' the $1.65. The total cost of program to the Government was $449,279.16.

I invite our potato growers to compare the above support prices they received under the former Liberal Government during the ten year period from 1946 to 1956 and. more particularly, to the year 1948 when $1.15 was paid per one hundred. pounds in bulk on the grower‘s farm as com- pared to 27 cents per one hun- dred pounds bulk offered late in July by the Diefenbaker Govern- ment. 4 I am, Sir. etc.

G.H. HARBOUR The Sehate, OttaWa.

The Age Old Story

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that need- eth not to be ashamed,‘rightly dividing the word of truth.

BELL VET DIES

MONTREAL C‘P . Maaurice J. Lyons 94. dean of the Bell Tel- ephone Pioneer’s Club at Mont- real, died Tuesday in hospital. Born in England, Mr. Lyons came to Canada more than 50 years ago and joined the Bell Telephone Company, from which he retired 29 years ago. He had no direct survivors.

Modern GP Is Highly Troinecl‘

By Herman N. Bundesen, I).

THIS is an age of speClallza- tion. And the need for speciallsts is just as prdnounoed in medi- cine -— perhaps more so — as in any business or industry".

We have specialists for the head, s‘peoia‘lsts fior the feet, specialists for the bottom. There are various kinds of specialists for the inside and more for the outside.

MORE IMPORTANT

This age of. specialization does not mean, as many persons ap- parently believe, that the days of the fairlin doctor, the general practitioner, are over. In fact, the GP is more important now than ever.

Modem medical treatment re- quires the 'services of a team. And directing this team - Just like a quarterlka directs a foot- ball team or a manager runs a baseball team - is the family physician.

Our hospital staffs today con- sist of a maze of specialists. Most patients, you included, would be lost as to whom to consult with- out the advice of the family doc— tor.

HE’S DIFFERENT

The G? of today bears little mesemblance to the family doctor of yesteryear who often had to treat ‘anytlungf' and everything with what he carried in his little black bag.

The modern G1? is a scientifi- cally trained, highly skilled ex-

} pert in both diagnosis and treat- ‘menlt

The Very nature of his train— ing prepares him for encounters with all types of diseases, ail- ments and accidents. He is, quite naturally, the person you call first when illness or accident strikes your home.