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Power Politics In Asia

' The new nationalism which has been sweeping Asia since the end of World War: II is not, as some imagine, dominated sole- ly by an urge to write finis to colonialism. A much more compelling, dynamic force to- day, occupies the mind of politically-com

.Churchill, the results of such a conflict

scious Asiatics. It is the struggle for lead- ership among the countries of Asia them- selves.

Contenders for the leadership of Asia to be reckoned with are India, China and! Japan. Contrary to popular belief, tllei 'atartling contrasts among these countries are so great as to make a mockery of pop-T ular generalizations about Asia. Indeed,E "Asia for the Asiatics' is as hollow a bit, of propaganda as it was in the heyday off Japanese expansionism. i

China, described by Sun Yat-sen as a! sub-colony of the major European powers, is now by the choice of her rulers an ally .of the Soviet Union. India, a British col-i

iony for nearly 200 Years but now 8" indeqlinal voyage on the 9th of this month shef Pelldem member of the Commonwealthv di5'iwill be once nlore under the command of

plays an uneasy neutralism no less baffling'Supt' Henry A. Larsen, R'C.M.p'y who was:

I Hiawaihai's idea

to the outside world than that of the Uni- -ted States after World War 1. Japan, for over half a century an imperial power and: ;self-appointed leader of large parts of Asia, 'is now bound by a mutual security pact to- Tthe United States. i

India and Chimv despite much bra”? then master of the little vessel. Other mem-

ialk about industrialization, are still 80 per cent agricultural in their economies. Japan,: on the other hand, is one of the four major- industrial areas of the world and by far: the greatest in Asia. The issue in Asia, therefore, is not the issue of Communismj versus Democracy so much as the issue of alignments of power. China's alliance with the Soviet Union should be sufficient evi-

'dence to explode the myth of "Asia for the ago, in 1854, that Captain M'Clure in the,

Asiatics.' India. Japan and China are to

ting out of civilization or the enslavement of whole countries."

But what alternative does atomic war- fare offer? In the words of Sir Winston

would "baffle the imagination", leaving the western world victorious, but "victorious on a heap of ruins.” Hence the necessity for "a real good try" to achieve peaceful co- existence with the Communist world. Co- existence through strength, not through weakness. The hope of the free world lies therefore in being able to pursue two di- verse aims simultaneously - in maintain- ing forces and weapons so formidable that they will not require to be put to the final test, and in seeking every avenue of ap- proach to a better mutual understanding.

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The first ship to circumnavigate North America is making her last voyage, The R.C.M.P. schooner St. Roch is being pre- sented to the city of Vancouver, where she was designed and built. There she will be preserved and displayed. The announcement was made as one of his first official acts by Canada's new Minister of National De- fence, the Hon. Ralph Campney.

The St. Roch is'also the first vessel to have negotiated the Northwest Passage both ways. Built in 1928 to stand up to the rigors of Arctic navigation, she sailed from Vancouver to Halifax in 1940 to 1942 and made the return journey in 1944. Later she returned to Halifax by way of the Panama Canal. When she leaves Halifax on her

lllstorlc Vessel

her skipper on her northern voyage and who was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society for the achieve- ment.

Only one man has circumnavigated this continent, Sgt. Frederick Sleigh Farrar,

bers of her 15-man crew were with her one way only.

Cabot, F robisher, Davis, Barents and others sought the Northwest Passage as a

ishort route to the riches of the East. They,

of course, were working blindly and prob- ably against much more severe ice condi- tions than present-day navigators have to contend with. It was only a hundred years

"Investigator" and by travelling over ice

0 the new Asia what the United Kingdom,i,first accomplished the Northwest Passage

France and Germany were to the Europe' of 1914. I

The most urgent need of western di-i plomacy is to destroy the ideological sources of Chinese strength. For so long as the belief persists in India as well as in Japan that United Nations forces, led by the Americans, were fought to a standstill in Korea, so long will fears divide the people of India and of Japan, making the present alliance with the latter difficult to main-

tain and causing the neutralism of the former to grow. can Tile West survive? Sir Winston Churchill's talks with

President Eisenhower, whatever the out- come in terms of decisions on matters of strategy, have undoubtedly served the ne. cessary and valuable purpose of undo;-nn. In the indestructible nature of the Anglo- American alliance. Whether or not they afford respite from the threat of war, which seemed so imminent in the Indo-China af- fair, certain it is that no doubt remains but that peace can only be woh through strength.

I-low adequate is that strength as things now stand to resist sudden Soviet aggres- sion? The question is worth posing, for Rus- sian fears williassuredly be heightened by the firm resolver of Washington and Lon- don to maintain the alliance, as well as by the prospect of bringing the West Ger- man Republic within the framework of the free world's defence.

In military terms, the best answer is found in the words of General Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, at a dinner given in his honor recently by Sir Winston Churchill in Iondon. "We have," says General Gruenther, "one asset now which is of tremendous value. We have I long-range aircraft to which tile Soviet now have no answer. I refer to the plane B-47, which can fly so fast and so high that there is no defence against it in this year of 19 ."

There still remains the danger. how- ever, that the free world in the hour of crisis might still find itself divided on the (location of the use of atomic weapons. Here, again, the issue is solely that of . an-vival. Better, surely. an atomic war in 1 which Rtieaieiwould suffer more severely the Wat, than a 'conventlo'nal' land

which Rtliia.,u thing: now

and won the prize of 1320.000 offered in 1815. It was left for Amundsen to achieve the unquestioned accomplishment of the perilous passage.

' EDITORIAL NOTES

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Its an ill wind that blows no good. The rust threat to western wheat and the rain damage to Maine's potato crop are not all loss for they may mean a compensating higher price for the remainder of the two crops.

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The Lieutenant Governor of Newfound- land, Sir Leonard Outerbridge, is making a visit to ports in Labrador as far north as the entrance to Hudson Strait. It is a fine thing to keep up the tradition that the sovereign should see as much of the realm as possible and that the Lieutenant Gover- nor do likewise within his particular juris- diction.

The 21-man Canadian team getting ready for Bisley competition July 12 is con- cemed about what the new Belgium auto- matic rlfle, the FN-30, will do to the an- nual rifle event. The new weapon will not be used this year but will probably sup- plant the Lee-Enfield. Much the same con- cem, however, must have been felt by top- notch archers when the long bow was be- ing replaced by firearms.

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The anti-trust suit of the United States Government against the United Fruit Com- pany may or.may not result in a court order to facilitate competition in the ban- ana trade, but it should at least indicate that the American Government is not un- duly solicitous for the advantage of the

bigg company in Guatemala. or elsewhere. I I O

The National Library will have a nuc- leus of books by and about Canadian wo- men if the National Council of Women is successful in its lateetiproiect. The Council has decided to start such a collection and McMaster University is pupal-ed to provide

temporary accommodation. 0 O O '

Sir Austen Henry Layerd, English ' died this date 1894. He begin ghle excavations at

archaeologist and dlplomatiet,

Nineveh in i1845'.and made many notable discover-lee th'noughout'Asia Minor. Later he waa for Foreign M- feln, minister to Spain, ambassador at couianunoole and cornmleaioner of public

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OTTAWA REPORT

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Hiawatha is best known as the Red Indian hero of Longfellow's famous poem. In fact he was the first North American statesman. whose brilliant ideas have been borrowed to help Paleface-. in North America. His best-known pupils are Benjamin Franklin and our Forelgri Secretary, the Hon. Lester ”Mllle" Pearson. i

Canada has been represented at an important ceremony at Albany, New York State. this week. which traces right back to Hiawatlla. This was the celebration of the 200th an- niversary of Benjamin Franklin's proposal that the Thirteen Colonies should unite into one nation to foster trade and aid their defence.

His plan was inspired by a much older political union, formedat least two centuries before. This was the Confederacy of the '.f-'ive Nations of Iroquois Red Indians: the Mohawks, Senecas, Oneidas. Cayugu and Onondages. It still exists today, now called the Six National following the admission of the Tuscsroras; its headquarters is on the Chaweken Reserve in south- western Ontario.

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At the peak of its power. that Confederation ruled the huge anea from our northland to South Vir- .glnia, from the frontiers of the Thirteen Colonies to the Mississippi River.

Hiawatha founded this Confed- eracy to outlaw war. He devised an International Parliament, called the Great Council of Sacheme, re- presenting the Five Nations. only Chiefs could attend this Council, which had power to declare war, make peace. enter into alliances, and govern weaker tribes. But the squawa had the right to veto any Council decision to declare war

Thirty-five years were to elapse before Benjamin Franklin's proposal waa finally adopted, to create the gloat and pi-oparoue United states. Three quarters of a century after that, our Fathers of Confederation copied the Hiawatha-Franklin plan to form the Dominion of Can- ada.

Recognising the advantages which Confederation has brought to the two great. North American nations. Canada has been a persistent and leading advocate of a similar un- ion between the allied nations en- circling the North Atlantic Ocean.

Mr. St. Laurent and Mr. Pearson are credited with the idea of in- cluding in the North Atlantic 'rl-eaty the famous Article Two, or "Oanadlan Clause". This provides for the allies to co-opemte in the slon-military fields. In. many speeches, they have both repeated- iy stressed the advantages which we might obtain from an economic and political union of the nations encircling the great basin of the Atlantic.

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The resulting benefits of freed trade. cheaper administration, un- auallable mll.lt.ary' strength and lower than would create a democ- Title Utopia which would act as I. poaltlva appeal more ” ' than communlnn. in the belief of Mr.- Pearaon, who has declared that "No plan lee: than this will do."

It is significant that, at the cele- bration of the blcentenary of Ben- iunin Funklinb vision, advocates

lylleawatbeb plan for The, that

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that today's shadow of an H- Arnueltdon. Benjamin

be capable of for such a union. and be able to"

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it has subsisted ages and appears indissoluble: and yet that a. like union should be impracticable for us today, to whom it is more neces- sary and must be more advantage- ous.”

Old Ciiarioiteiown and ma 3 A STUIDY PIONEER

"There died at Murray Harbor. on the 27th April, Mr. William Graham. Lot 63. Mr. G. was a native of Lockerbie. near Dum- fries, had spent fifty-four years in this Colony. and departed in his 80th year. Though he did not bring much wealth from his na- tivc country, he possessed more solid requisites--a stern integrity that could not brook being in debt. is persevering and conquering in- dustry. sobriety. and prudence to husband the hard earnings of a well applied labour.

”After participating largely in the many privations and difficul- ties incident to the then infant state of the Colony--not having tasted bread, nor seen the King's coin for six months together. as he himself used to relate-Mr. G settled, about 30 years since. on Lot 63; where. with the aid of his two sons, now no more. he clear- ed and brought into cultivation not much less than 150 acres. Owing to severe injuries. he was for is long period very lame. and

but to the very last he was dis- tinguished by cheerfulnesl. a good old-fashioned hospitality. and I patriotic anxiety for the prosperity of trfe Colony."

-P. E. Island 1829.

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TOKYO (Reuters)-The finance ministry said Monday the Japan- ese government is working on a plan for recognition of the Cana- dian-dollar as an official foreign currency for Japan's foreign trade. The official foreign currencies are at present limited to the United States dollar and the pound ster-

Re gister, May I,

'ling. The new deal would also in-

clude the Swiss franc.

BOY! DEBAIL TBAIN

VANCOUVER (CP)-Two boys, aged five and seven years. satur- day admitted deraillng an east- bound Canadian Pacific passenger train here Thursday night. The case has been turned over to CPR police. Detective Sylvan Al-meneau said the two admitted placing rough planking and rocks on the curve. i '

had been blinded several years.-- M

l p L ' . 1 , um ODYSSEY

As one that for a weary space has in

Lull'd by the song of Circe and her wine

In gardens near the pale of Proo-

perpine Where that Aegean tale forgets the

in n.

And only the low mice of love com- plain,

And only shadows of wan lovers p -.

As such an one were glad to know the brine

Salt on his lips. and the large air

8! So gladly from the songs of modern speech

Men turn. and we the stars." and feel the free

shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers,

And through the music of the lan- guid hours

They hear like ocean on a western beach

The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.

-Andrew Lang. OCEAN BIRDS Luge nesting colonlea of gm. nets exist in the cult of st. Law- rence and on islands southwest of Newfoundland.

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because" it is i - who Look: Ahead. and the lataelt blow in a soap chip which can be purchased only -by the Young at Heart.-Winnipeg Tribune.

We use llttla aorvioea that count ln'ma.king a poutical career. A sgiator from the pmlrlea tens of one conatl uent. widow of an Am- erlcan Cl l War pensioner. Who used to come to him to non a de- claration that she was still alive. -Brantford Expositor.

June, with no aohool enmlnlr tlons. is one period when the aver- age man is happy that time has no intention of turning back in its flight and making him I b0Y again.-Edmonton Journal.

sir wluton clmrohluts any with words shows no 51111 01 d0W'10"' tlon. "Peace through strength." he tells the smzllsh-speaklnz Union. "must be our zuldlnz am." and there is eight words in the whole policy of the Western powers.- Ottawa Journal.

"Horse Survives Grub with A Train," a headline announces some inventor might take over the ani- mal and cross it with a motor car, in the late is of traffic safety. -Chatham ewe.

Television and radio. It II "- ported have aided in the growth of newspaper circulation. It seems that after a person sees or been something he wants to read about it. The fact has been true for mnny years. IIWOY3 mud ”n9W' mg a big local h-ppenlnm - Bi Onthulnee Standard.

Prflnn Minister mu of South Africa says that it in time for his country "to l!r0WC'- 1191' 1,','”V" against. the United Nations. Now we have heard everything. - Tor- onto Telegram.

A billion dollar Indulfl M853 one day in Labrador when an ex- plorer. Clarence Birdseye. nomed that food exP0D9d to the Clmrihl. below-zero wlnda froze almost in- stantly and retained its fruhno-I8 when thawed out weeks or months later.-St. John's (N116) N!"-

that love sound enoulh '41 N” h marriage on must be the kind that makes each one of the partner- ship sure that the other in the only person in W! '0'” km? M or she wants to be with, to work and grow with, throughout life. 1: must be strong enoulh to move both parties to think in terms of "us" rather than "me." '0 bi I30"! I interested in making the other Zlappy than in bclnl M149 MP”- .o care more about Dl'9l0l'V1Dl the .ove relationship in face of

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apect made the female of the species less. essential-for survival at least.-St. Thomas 'rimeo-Jour- nal. I

Nothing that is managed by hu- mans can be devoid of error but the world must recognize today thatitbere has been no more bone-, ficlent influence in history than the British Empire. No nation that once formed part of it has cause to regret the days of colonialism for each had its own special cause for gratitude that it.,was founded. colonized and developed under the benevolent aegis of an imperial concept and tradition guided by the noblest principles that man could poueee.-St. John's (Nfld.) News. ,

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Robert Harris. famed Canadian portrait painter who died at Mont V real in 1019, was born in North Wales.

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