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__. No Fond Farewell

“One cometh, another goeth,” is’ the order of the day among the Con- servatives. Mr. Davie Fulton's de- cision to come back into federal | politics is being welcomed, especial- | ly since it is coupled with the assur- ance that he will “work with and support” Conservative Leader John Diefenbaker. On the other ‘hand™ there is Mr. Leon Balcer, bitterly anti-Diefenbaker, who said a few days” ago that he would not seek re-elec- tion as a Tory-under that man and now—having failed to set the heather - on fire with this threat—has- walked out on the party altogether. Dief or ‘no Dief, he evidently regards it as beyond redemption. It’s “too mono- lithic,” he says, and he doesn’t ex- pect it to change rapidly enough for him to go back on his decision.

What is significant is that the party’s executive in Quebec last week- end gave Mr. Balcer a unanimous vote of ‘vonfidence as Quebec leader. It looks as if he'll take most of them out with:him. It’s all very well for an unnamed spokesman in the Op- position leader's office to say “good= “riddance,” but that won't gain any ‘Quebec votes. There is no doubt that the Conservative relationship in that province, limited enough in any case, has been further weakened by

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Mr. Fulton’s return, however, could help. He is said to have a clear understanding of the Quebec situation, and is’ himself fluently

* bilingual. With experience in Oppos- ition and as a minister, he could have

before him an important role, at a

time when his particular knowledge

‘ and talents could be of greatest value. Since his old constituency of Kam- loops will become available'to him in due course, through the retirement of the present Conservative member, he should have excellent prospects of election. Some day—soon or distant

—the leadership of the party will be

contested again as it was in 1956,

when Mr. Fulton was a third choice

behind Mr. Diefenbaker and former

Finance Minister Donald Fleming..

‘In the meantime; however,. Mr. Balcer has become an Independent. He has already lashed out at the party to which he had given his -al-

-___legiance, branding it as being “25 _ years behind the times,” and we may expect that he'll not have a ‘kind word for it from now on. No fond

ell speeches from him. He pick- ed a time when election rumors are in the air, and when the Conserva- tives actually have an amendment to the Throne Speech—in effect a mo-. tion. of non-confidence against the government—to be voted on today. How many of them,- we wonder, would like to see it carried in the present state of affairs! “ Amid Warning Voices Although President Johnson took the position that he was simply re- stating American policy in Viet Nam in his broadcast speech‘on Wednes- day night, it did reflect a significant shift in the American attitude to- ward negotiations. His offer for “yn-

a conditional discussion” with the Com-

munists, even with the fighting go-

ing on, comes pretty close to Prime

Minister Pearson’s proposal for a

“pause” in the conflict to permit of

such discussion. This, it will be re-

called, was the way the Korean im-

Of course, President Johnson could not corfie right out and say that he was ready for a cease-fire, while trying to imiprove his negotiating position: He was still insistent that Communist aid to the North Viet Nam “aggressors” must be stopped, but his plea for a discussion to end the struck a new note in the attitude that Washington has here-.

The fact.is that the war in Viet - has been mounting in intensity,

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Communists or on the will of South Viet Nam to support a so-called war The use of gas and napalm bombs has caused

which has given the Communists a |

potent propaganda weapony- Wal- ter Lippmann and other leading U.S. commentators have also’ been out- spoken in criticism of this policy. Recently in the New York Times a full-page advertisement appeared, signed by 2,500 U.S. ministers, priests and rabbis, who implored:“‘Mr. Presi- dent, in the Name of. God, stop it.”

‘The language, as the Montreal Star |

notes, was far less diplomatic than that used by Mr. Pearson, and it

called for an immediate cease-fire | _ and for a reversal of American policy.

Another voice raised in. this con-

' nection has been that of Dr. Hans J. internationally known ,

Morgenthau, director of the centre for the study of American foreign. and military policy at. the University of Chicago: In an article in a recent issue of The

New Republic, Dr. Morgenthau points <. out that the factors which made the | policy of military containment a suc- | | cess in Europe are not present in |

Asia. If it is to be applied, to Com- munist China; it necessarily involves a-war with China. ‘This.would mean sending—not: thousands but millions of American soldiers to the mainland of Asia to fight.’

“To call attention to these impli-

cations of our present policies,” says |

the writer, “has nothing to do with pacifism, isolationism; appeasement, and softness on Communism. The difference between calling, attention

to them now, when we have still the ©

freedom of choice, and of stumbling unawares deeper and deeper into a morass from which there is.no re- treat, is the difference between pru- dence and recklessness.” And he points out,.in conclusion, that France owes -more to Mendes-France ‘who

“liquidated the Indochinese war, and - to de Gaulle who stopped the-fight=- .ingin_ Algeria. than to those. who wanted to continue fighting _ with-- | out regard for the limits of their |

country’s. interests and power.

An Oversight?” ~~ The opting-out formula was pass- ed only a few days ago, and already,

according to the Montreal Gazette,

one incidental effect of it. will need correction. For it would appear: to raise the taxation on residents of Quebec, in comparison with residents of other provinces.

_ This increase is not an integral or necessary part of the formula; all

that it involves is that Quebec, be-.

cause it chooses to move out of pro- grams where cost. hasbeen shared with Ottawa, and to carry out these programs itself, will have room for it to occupy a larger percentage of the income ‘field. It ought to mean that the taxpayer will be paying to Quebec what he previously paid to Ottawa, but that,.as a taxpayer, he’ would be-none.the worse. But a hitch has developed in this arrangement. The trouble arises because the regulations for income tax are not the same in Quebec as in Ottawa. The federal government permits a tax-

payer to deduct-20- per cent-of-his~

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a wave of revulsion around the world He

dividends from Canadian companies. The Quebec government permits the | taxpayer to deduct only three per | cent.

What this means, in effect, is that the advantage that a taxpayer in

Quebec will have from putting his |

savings into Canadian companies will be reduced to a greater extent than | in the past, and his income tax will | rise, for he will be paying more of | his income tax ‘under. Quebec regula-’ tions than in the past. i

“It can searcely be the intention of the Quebec government,”’ says The Gazette, “to increase the disadvan- ” tage of an investor- because he hap- | pens to, live in Quebec.” Indeed ‘not. We may expect that the oversight | willbe remedied without loss of time.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Helsinki for years has honored | the great Finnish composer, J.e an Sibelius, with a week-long festival. | This ‘year it observes the centennial | of his birth. And it is expanding the festivities to three weeks (May 15- | June 4) with several noted artists ‘and

_ orchestras participating. ” * *

Some day when television watchers | want their séts to turn off they will | need only say so. The sets will obey spoken commands; and that day may | not be so far gway. Radio Corpora- — tion of American has obtained a patent for a syllable analyzer that

can take spoken words apart and

“compress them into an- electronic “signal.

A rough prototype can al-. ready recognize 200 spoken syllables.

| other. It is rather a suggestion { that the interest in a ferry in

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When Dr. P.B. Rynard, Con- servative MP for Orillja, asked the Minister of Agriculture if he had heard reports of severe “ill- ness among animals caused by a drug called stilbestrol, he fir-

@elop into eur most far-reach- ing enquiry inv artifically

ter in his field.

Stilbestrol- is a synthetic _pre- paration . simulating an estro- genic hormone. Drugs of this as contraceptives,. and to allev- iate menopause ailments. induce sterility, but are suspected of causing forms..of carticer.

. Diethylstilbestral, to give it chemical name, is widely as a fattening additive to al feeds. It dulls the sexual pulse of animals so makes their flesh retain “fluid, thus increasing the tent of water and other liquids in the body, while its residue lodges in the fat. :

OLD HOBBY HORSE Stilbestrol is given to steers,

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the neck from a lodges just beneath: the skin and dissolves over a period of six to nine months. A pellet, gz 80 cents, may add as as 100 pounds to the steer’s§ weight, .thus increasing its to $22 when it is slaughtered.

where this is have been afflicted inhaling stilbestrol dust; f. families who have made ives por- ridge from such mash have

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~ Queries Raised Re Dangers Of Stilbestrol

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— their children suffering

This cvlums ts open te the discussics by corresponden’s of questions of in terest. The Guardian does not neces sarily ‘endorse the opinion of corres | pendents. All letiers published’ are sab , Jeet to editing and condensation where wecessary, The Guardian is unable te enter inte any corrrespendence regard img letters submitted.

a vice brings to mind that we have not heard much about recently, and the West Point Ferry or at a ferry from New Brunswick to

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for themSelves. And if there is a need for subsidy, the increased traffic on the highways would go a long way toward up the subsidy. The the economy of West casioned by ‘a ferry would to- feed back a lot by way of es into government coffers. This letter i¢ not written in effort to detract from the Port Hood ferry idea, and is in no way a suggestion that © one should be played off against the,

Port Hood, serves only to streng- |

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since dictator Juan D. Peron | anything»near the four ‘was overthrown, the specter of | votes that their leaders had de- “Peronism” is still very much manded as a mandate: to he governmmént to

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