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,FAUVIC. Jersey '(lPI-nMaj: Gen. John Hamilton Roberts. 70. a career soldier who served to both world wars and led the Dieppe raid. died at his home In the Channel Islands Monday. Gen. Roberts will probably be best remembered as comman- der of the Canadian force in the controversial 1942 Uicppe raid. In which some 3,369 men of a force of nearly 5.000 were killed. wounded or captured. Shortly after the raid he assumed com- of Canadian reinforce- ment units in the United King- dom

Gen A G. La McNaughton of Ottawa. commander of the first Canadian Army in 1942. today paid this tribute to Gen. Roh-

erts:

“As a leader and as a gallant. devoted. determined 5 old 1 er. Gen. Roberts will long be re- membered by the Canadian Army and. I hope, by the Ca- nadian people."

Many observers held that the Dieppe rald. carried out with out sufficient firepower against a heavily defended harbor. pro- vided v a l u a b l e lessons that saved thousands of lives in later seahorne frontal attacks.

OTE AROI'T RAID

Just three months ago. in a letter to Ross Munro. (‘anadian

resn war correspondent. at Dieppe and new publisher of the Winnipeg Tribune, Gen. Roberts

wrote.

“I consider Dieppe was well worthwhile as we learned a lot about what not to do. Our later surtcessful landings in \‘orth Af- rica, ltaly etc, could scarcely have been carried out without it "

-Gen. Roberts won the his- tinguished Service Order for his part. in the raid During the

first World War he received the Military Cross for bravery. France made him a commander to the Legion of Honor and awarded him the Croix de Guerre with palms.

lie was born in i’ipestone. Man, but lived for many years at Kingston. Out. and also at Ottawa. Educated at Epsom t‘ollege, Surrey. England, lini- vcrsity School. Victoria. B.C.. and Upper Canada Collegc. 'l‘or— onto. he graduated from the Royal Military College of Can- ada. Kingston. in MM and was immediately commissioned in the army

REMAINED IV ARMY

Gen. Roberts remained in the army following the war and was a lieutenant-colonel when the second world war broke out.

Part of his creed was that no equipment should be sacrificed. Withdrawing in June, 1940. from France with the artillery regi- ment under his command. he

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. The unit was the only one in the withdrawing forces to save all its guns.

After the war Gen. Roberts retired to his home here and served from 1945 to 1950 as chief administrative officer for thc Northwest European district till the Imperial War Graves Commission.

lie is survived by his wife,‘ three sons and a daughter.

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D ev. ‘. most controversial American figures in the 20th centuryp ibroke a 20-year public silencei Saturday.

And the once 1 famed (Tana- dian-born radio priest insisted in an exclusive interview he was right in his caustic denun- ciations of president Franklin ID. Roosevelt in the days during ‘the rise of itler and the ‘world's move toward world war in the 1930s. He said:

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thority as the primary duty of men in all walks of life. a vir- tue he himself demonstrated in acceding to the wishes of his archbishop.

He advocated a revolutionary method of education which would turn classrooms into theatres fed elite instruction from Telstar.

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ecalling his pre - Second World War castigation of the British Empire and coining of the phrase. “international bank- ers." Father Coughlin said: was strongly opposed British empire for its political imperialism, and to interna- tional business for its economic imperialism.

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