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TUCKING IT AWAY

President Johnson puts a 350.000 cheque in his billfold Friday and draws a hearty laugh from West German

Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. The Chancellor gave the cheq- ue to Johnson at the Will House.

It is a West German

contribution to aid develop- ment of Peace Corps-type or- ganization throughout the o . (AP Wirephoto)

Ireland's Isolation Shell Shows Signs Of Cracking

By CAROL KENNEDY

DUBLIN (Cpl—Ireland is on the move. her vision shifting from the brooding bog of history to the challenging horizons of the 19605.

This complex. mystical. intro- spective island on the western rim of Europe is beginning to crack the protective shell of isolationlsm she withdrew into after partition 44 years ago.

She is still troubled by her split personality—to the north. the six counties of Ulster. to the south the 26 counties of the lrisli Republic—but no longer obsessed by it. Last year a tlinw seemed i m min e nt be tween the two prime ministers Relations have iced up again— mostly. it seems. because the f\' ‘l'ill still suspects the South oi \‘Lllllllll to absorb it. But po- pm in the republic. at least. no lt‘ll’lf‘l‘ get worked up about the border quarrels.

“Och. they're shouting at one

another again." they SlEllf‘tIIy, and turn to other twiirs. The Irish Republican

Army is dead: people may use the Gaelic form of their names but have little interest in speak- ' . the official language: that old inbred nationalism is at ISSI giving way to internationalism.

SET HIGH TARIFF!

For years between the two ii nrltl wars. foreign inﬂuence in "Holy Ireland" was feared like the devil himself. The Roman Catholic Church. so long de- nlf‘d its place in Irish life by British Protestant rule. discour- aged any dilution of its austere ('rliic traditions. The govern. nieni. defensively nationalist. discouraged foreign investment and built high tariff walls to protect Ireland's weak. farm- based economy. As a result. the republic lost nearly a quarter of her population to more liberal. prosperous lands.

All that has changed under modern-minded Scan Lemass. prime minister or Taoiseach- pronounced teeshook since 1959. when the legendary Ea- mon de Valera stepped up to the presidency. In five years Lo- mass has begun to reshape Iro- land by a revolutionary eco- nomic and social program de- signed to equip the country for an eventual part in the Euro- pean Common Market.

A few deeply embedded strands in Irish life pull back against the tide—the Gaelic Ath- letic Association. for one. whlctl forbids its members to partici- pate in foreign games or dances. and some‘Roman Cath- olic bishops who seem to fear ecumenism may erode the un- questioning devotional nature or Irish Catholicism.

LOOKING ourwa'nos

But economic and social change. fired by the challenge of aurope and tanned by a lib- eralizing wind Vatican C'ty. are unfreezing Irish think- ing from the mould of a gonor- ation.

“We‘re beginning to look out- wards. beyond the three-mile limit." said a Dublin editorial Eli‘llt‘l‘. ruminating over his .i'ar“ of s ut.

‘We‘re growing up." said a Jesuit priest. editor of a high- brow current affairs quarterly called Studies which constantly locks to turn the Irish mind outs vrard and forward. Last year. assessing the prams: of ire land in the coming decade. Rev. Roland Burke Savage wrote: Our long and studied pre- occupation with the past masks a widespread feeling of in- lflt’qiiacy in the present.

Several facton combined to lwont u. now fantastical: mi-

ing. The Common Market. though now a distant goal. is seen as the main catalyst. along with the bursting na- tional pride in the role non- aligned Ireland plays in the United Nations and a recent in- flux of Afro-Asian students into Dublin's two universities.

IMPRESSED BY JFK

Opinion really awoke to the challenge of the outside world in 1962. any observers. And in the following summer one me- morable event seemed to seai lreland‘s new place on the map.

The joyful three-day visit of President Kennedy in June, 1963. is seen in retrospect as a kind of watershed in national attitudes. For many it symbol- ized something more than the ultimate Irish - American suc- cess story — rather an emer- gence into the modern world of ideas and a turning-away from nostalgia.

To the restless young of ire- land who sometimes feel trapped in their own history. Kennedy's political and per- sonal style expressed qualities the Irish have always admired but often felt incapable of in- stilling into their own political life — vigor. finesse. idealism translated into action. the abil- ity to select priorities and or-

anize.

“This nation has had only twu authentic heroes in this cen- tury." writer Frank O'Connor told this reporter. “Michael Col- ins and John F. Kennedy. The rest were stereotypes."

Collins. the revolutionary leader who fought Eamon do Valera in the civil war over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of Par- tition. was cut down in his early 30s. leaving a poignant

Missionary Title Tabooecl

TORONTO (CP) —- The title missionary is being tabooed out of usage in the Anglican Church of Canada. but whatever it's called the work is expanding under new impetus. the church reports.

“Western condescension and sense of superiority have it place in Christian missionary enterprise today." says an An- glican news shoot. "Even the word missionary is suspect as workers sewing overseas adapt and relate the Christian gospel to the society and culture to which they are exposed."

The keynote is "mutual re- sponsibility and interdepend- ence" among th regional branches of the world Anglican communion. a policy product oi the world Anglican Congress in Toronto last August. Tho idea is that national churches are no longer divided into givers and getters. senders and receiv- crl. All member churches have something to gain from and to give to all other members, whether it be Ideas. money or

man ower. ‘ Inpthia spirit. the Anglican Church of Canada has laid

plans to raise at least $500.0th a year for the next five years above its regular budget for use in Southeast Asia. Africa. India. Latin America and the Caribbean. chieﬂy to train o cats In loader-hip bum churches. schools and hospita.s

and support "workers." for- ‘rl missionaries. mInyaddltlon. the Canadian

church hopes to arrange an- changu of theologians and stu. dents with other Anglican

It”. “Alienation to Canadians. in- eluding two doctors. two physi- otherapists. two teachers and a nurse. are going to various

pm“ .bpogd u workers.

legacy of unfulfilled promise— a classic pattern of Irish trag- ed

y. AIRLINE IS SUCCESS

At this moment in her history. poised between two eras, the misty island in the Atlantic pre- sents some strange contradic- tions.

To some expatriate critics, she is still a repressed society in the grip of authoritarian bishops—yet on the economic scene she is uietly moving to the left. Two-thirds of the Irish economy now is guided by the state, and Ireland‘s political parties are. if anything. anti- clerical by tradition.

She is still largely an under- developed pastoral land—yct in Aer Lingus she has one of Eu- rope's most successful state-run airlines. one that has carved a fat chunk of the transatlantic trade.

The surge of a belated indus- trial revolution has brought a new to the capital. Iona submerged in its own Georgian reflection.

Dublin. with its caressing air and courteous ways. is still one of the most relaxing cities in Europe. Life is touched with a certain grace; there is no hint. of the rat-race as businessmen settle in bars to savor the rich Irish whisky and their own flood of brogue-burnished talk.

THREE NEW HOTELS

But it can no longer be said that Dublin does not change. There is a quickening of pace-— literally so since one-way trai- fic was introduced a few weeks ago and someone forgot to pro

vide pedestrian crossings at the ‘

busiest junctions.

Miniature skyscrapers sprout in the city. The new trades un- ion headquarters. Liberty l-Iali. lifts l7 angular storeys above the pastel vista of the Llffey quays. brasth drawing the eye from what many have called the loveliest building in [re- land, the pillared Customs House with its delicate green it

ome.

Three new hotels have shot up. symbolizing the surge of in- come from tourism. a old ones are rapidly going "con temporary,” throwing out the chintz and mahogany in favor of black leather and pale Swo- dish furniture. .

James Joyce would recognize few of the pubs today. From pungent dark retreats with saw- dust on the floor. many have turned into bright modern lounges where Dublin talk coin- petea with the seeping-strains

A new gloss of prosperity—— some say flashiness—haa ac- companled the government‘s initial burst of modernisation Ireland's fastest period of eco- nomic growth this century. It has yet to penetrate d and many are somewhat cynical about the boom. suspecting that a small section of society is creating an air of pseudo-so phistication.

NEW IDEAS FROM TV

“on we're very grand with our Dior suits and expense-ac- count lunches. trying to show the world we‘re no longer has

trotters." said the wife of a Dublin author with amused scorn.

But girls on Grafton

Street are noticeably smarter in their Irish-made outfits; cars assembled in Irish plants crowd the streets “broad and nar- row" where Molly Malone trun- dled her cockles and mussels. and thickets of TV serials. re- calving British and local pro- grams. are channelling daring new Ideas into puritanical Irish omel.

The measure of progress is. as always. emigration. For more than I century attor- tha dreadful famine of 1341. Iro-

NfIcI. Army Units?

Slated To Close l

OTTAWA tCPt—Severai units, in the army's Newfoundland area will be shut down June Associate Defence Minister I.u-i clen Cardin announced Friday.- I He said the units had been employed some extent in servicing naval and air force establishments that are no; longer in operation 3

Essential tasks of the. units will be taken over by other tie~l

tachments in the Newfoundland area headquarters. l closure will affect 11 civilian and 55 military posi-i tions. l The units are the Newfound-l land Signal Troop. Royal Cans-l dian Signals: No. 20 Company.l Royal Canadian Army Service

land’s youth poured out in a hemorrhage that enriched ‘he lifeblood of other nations but at times brought the mother coun- try close to dying. Sean Le- mass has applied a tourniquet and the flow is being staunched.

You still hear Irish people say “we are an old nation." is- menting late marriages. low birth-rate and the lure of Lon- don. But now. for the first

The Guardian. Charlottetown, sac, June is, 1964. ‘9.

Corps; No, 12 Detachment.l Royal Canadian Army Medics».I Corps; N. . Area Ordnancel Depot. Royal Canadian Ornance‘ Cor s. n . Company! Royal Electrical and Mechani-' cal Engineers.

The service corp unit has de- tachments at St. John's. Torbay and Gander. The other units are located at St. John's.

Tax-Free Drugs I May Be Possible;

OTTAWA tCP)-—Finance Min-l ister Gordon said in the Com i mons he will be glad. to consider before his next. budget Opposition Leader Diet-‘ enbaker‘s proposal that drugs required by sic persons be exempted from the 11-per-cent es tax.

Mr. Diefenbaker referred to the tax on drugs as a "tax on1 sickness" and said it falls mainly on persons in low-tn- come groups.

Mr. Gordon also said in replyi to Mr. Diefenbaker that he poi. l sonally has not received retire-l senatations fr 0 m pharmacists seeking removal of the tan] which was a general tax and; not specifically imp 0 led on;

rugs.

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time, there are incentives not only for the young to stay home. but for emigrants to re- turn to “the Ould Sod."

Montreal’s Mount Rioyal.l which rises 764 feet above sea. level. sprawls over an area of

4 acres.

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Guests gasp as waitress Mrs. C.w. Nyhuis. 29, loses h e r

to......« . . ‘ hilt!“ SERVICE WITH A SPLASH drink while serving at a hos- pital benefit fasnion show at a suburban Toronto

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want." She swam to safety without aid as the audience

hotel. Mrs. Ny‘huls said the wind caught her tray loaded

\\‘IIII coffee urns and “over I applauded.

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