Speaker Michener has ruled in the House of Commons that mem- ters of Parliament must be treated

like other citizens—they are in- ‘Necent until proved guilty. That is the effect of his decision on Friday in the Pallett case, after reviewing

the history of Parliament and find--

ing no set precedent on which to go. It was given as a result of a Liberal demand, renewed last week, that a House committee investigate the conduct of the Government whip, Mr. John Pallett (Peel) in a Mal- ton airport land expropriation ease.

Questions have been\ asked by the Opposition—with the CCF sup- porting the Liberals throughout—

as to the propriety of certain actions —

taken by the member for Peel in seeking higher land valuations for property owners who im the begin- ning were his clients and later his eonstituents only. The questions arose from a judgement of Mr. Jus- tice Thorson in the Exchequer Court, when rejecting the valuations made by an appraiser appointed by the government upon the repeated urg- ing of Mr. Pallett.

The Opposition, though strong in the implication that something _is irregular, has declined to make anything that amounts to a charge. This led the Prime Minister to say that it was practicing “accusation by innuendoes.” Such tactics might open the way to a serious abuse of parliamentary privilege; for # Par- liament were to operate in this fash- jon, one’ member after another might be brought before a commit- tee, not because they had been ‘charged with anything, but because the Opposition believed, or hoped, that some fault or error might be discovered and proved against them.

The debate on the Pallett issue has been long and furious. But we imagine*Ahat most Canadiaris will indorse the Speaker’s ruling. Unless a specifie charge is made, it is hard _te see how the Commons can take action, without opening the way to having members brought to a sort of trial, without any of the safe- guards which a proper trial affords.

As noted in these columns yes- terday, however, there is an easy way for the Liberals to bring th issue to a head. They can bring a ‘specific charge against Mr. Pallett. Parliamentary tradition requires that any member making a charge ef misconduct against another should resign if the charge is not proved.

Soviet Strategy

A remarkable book, recently re- viewed in the New York Times Weekly, throws much light upon the reasons for failure at Geneva and elsewhere by Western diplomats in negotiating stable peace agreements with Russia. Entitled ‘Protracted Conflict,” the work is the result of an intensive study undertaken in 1955 by the U.S. Foreign Policy Re- search Institute. Avoiding discus- sion of Communism as a social or economic ideology it examines its significance as a doctrine and technique of conflict, seeking to establish how Moscow has manag- ed to work around the West’s pri- mary defenses while conducting a campaign for the accumulation of global power.

The authors arrive at a thesis linking all the phenomena of con- flict and competition now visible in the world—economic, _ political, propagandistic and even military— to the Soviet Grand Plan. This plan is a revised and _ up-to-date version of Clausewitz and assumes that “peace” is a continuation of war by other means.

The salient point of “Protracted

Conflict” concerns Communist di- vision of the world into a “war zone’ and a “peace zone.” The

“war zone” is everything outside the Sino-Soviet bloc. In that area the Communists are prepared to probe and adventure, sometimes gaining victories as in Czechoslova- kia and North Vietnam and some- times losing as in Korea or Jordan. But their victories are permanent

-competition, Moscow is often willing to lose bat-

- tles and sacrifice momentary -pres-+

tige for the sake of long-range gains. It shows how the Soviets use Freudian tactics alternately to frighten and tranquilize the West; how they use deception deliberately to minimize or exaggerate their strength; how they prevent us from ever gaining the strategic initiative in the Cold War because we do not understand its totality and lack a system capable of manufacturing immediate responses to changing local situations; how, in fact, the Russians are not being contained by Western strategy but are “contain-

. ing” us.

The authors summarize Mos- cow’s coldly effective policy ac- cordingly: “This strategy refuses the frontal, all-out battle with the stronger foe. To seek a direct mil- itary engagement under circum- stances which would put the out- come im doubt is unpardonable. Whether or not a final, annihilating attack upon the West will be either possible or necessary is a judgment which the Communist conflict man- agers reserve to the future. If such a choice is ever made, the strategy of protracted conflict will be con- verted into a strategy of swift, complete decision. But so long as an overwhelming margin of strategic superiority lies beyond the Com- munists’ reach, they have no choice but to postpone the Armageddon.”

Charged With Genocide

Action by the United Nations is recommended by the International Commisson of Jurists against Com- munist China in the case of Tibet. It is not before time. What is involv- ed is not merely a violation of China’s 1951 pledge to Tibet, but the principle of the U.N. convention against geno- cide—the mass destruction of people. In Tibet, the Commission. says, some 65,000 persons have been deliberately murdered in an attempt to make that nation an integral part of Red China.

One incident will bring strong re- actions in the far east. The Chinese,

it declares, have set about systemat- ically and coldly destroying the Bud-'

dhist religion in Tibet. They have im- prisoned monke, destroyed temples and shrines and monuments. '

Coming from the commission, these charges carry great weight. It is a non-governmental organization hav- ing consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Purshottam Trikamdos, noted In- dian jurist, general secretary of the Indian Commission of Jurists and former secretary of Ghandi, says that the commission spent two exhaustive months reading documents, inter- viewing witnesses and experts, and studying news reports before reach- ing its decision.

EDITORIAL _ NOTES

While the consumer price index in Canada increased by about 2.5 percent during 1958 it has. declined

first- four months of this year. The

general wholesale price index ad-

vanced by a little less than 2 percent

from October, 1958 to March, 1959. * * *

Here, according to the Ottawa Journal, are the girls to watch out for this Summer and Fall: Arlene, Beulah, Cindy, Debra, Edith, Flora, Gracie, Hannah, Irene, Judith. These are the Hazels, the Ednas, the Hil- das and the Audreys of other years, though surely all will not be so memorable. They are the tropical storms and hurricanes which roar out of the South Atlantic, a devil’s spawning ground of devastation.

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Ghana is heading in an ominous direction. A bill providing up to 15 years’ imprisonment for anyone making a false statement about the country or the Ghana government “by word of mouth or in writing or by any other means” has been pub- lished in the official Ghana Gazette. Another bill is expected to open the way for death penalty charges against - suspected conspirators. These measures are the fruit of dictatorship, not of democracy.

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Visiting The P.M.

By Patrick Nicholson

The exciting pay-off for forty weeks of worthwhile saving came for forty-two Ontario teen-agers when they made a 600-mile bus trip to this Capital City last week.

To pay their own expenses on this three-day trip, the boys and girls in Grade Eight at Regent Public School in Midland had each saved up $20. earned by de- livering newspapers, cutting grass baby-sitting and other spare-time jobs.

Leaving Midland at seven in the morning, their comfortable “Penetang and Midland” charter- ed bus brought them here the long way round, detouring to fol- low the scenic route beside the newly-opened St. Lawrence Sea- way. Their first long day ended with an after-dark visit to the Dominion Observatory here.

The highlight of a full program in Ottawa on their second day was a tour of the Parliament Buildings. During this, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker re - ceived them in his office. He chatted to them in his friendly informal way, referring to past prime ministers, including Sir John A. Macdonald whose pic- ture hangs on his wall, and to future prime ministers who, he said, might include any of the boys, and indeed any of the girls since that job is not closed to women, who were listening to him.

LESSON OF HARD WORK

He did not tell his visitors that it is because he gets to his of- fice before eight in the morning, and is on the job sometimes un- til after midnight and often at

week-ends as well, that one man |

can crowd so much into each day. Only thus can our busiest Prime Minister do the job of lead- ing our Government, and take time out as well to chat with visiting schoolchildren, and sign their autograph books, and pose

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LEPER COLONY APPEAL

Sir,—May I request your co- operation in publishing this

slightly in every month during the | Wo"ld-wide appeal to the hearts

that respond to those who need love’s healing.

Please send postag® stamps to a “Shut-in Stamp Club" with let- ters from children as well as the elderly bearing good wishes to a Leper Colony on a little island on the South Pacific. The sorting and general procedures in stamp collecting provide hours of happy entertainment. Self is forgotten and perfection is reborn for a happy mind creates a healthy’ body. Love knows no barriers. Universal love heals. Help these unfortunates find their way back to happiness. “‘Be thou clean, and they were cleansed.”

May I humbly ask for your im- mediate aid in so worthy a pro- mise. Surpluses will go to or- phanages and wherever love’s mending is needed. Please mail stamps -and letters 10 the “Stamp Club’’, Kalaupapa Hospital, Kala- upapa, Molokai, Hawaii.

I am, Sir, etc. ARTHUR C. MARKS Honolulu, Hawaii.

DEATH LAMENTED

_ Siw,—At this time throughout the world many hearts are sad- dened by the sudden death of Miss Ethel Barrymore. Perhaps it can be said that her place on the American stage down the years, equals that of the late Miss Sarah Bernhardt on that of the French stage. Her memory will long be cherished by all who have seen her. I am, Sir, etc.,

KENNETH BRUCE STEWART Bedeque, P.E.L ‘

for snapshots before their cam- eras.

But he did laughingly tell them that “‘thirteen”’ is not always the unlucky number that superstition tells us; for he is our thir- teenth Prime Minister, and it not unlucky that the voters gave him the biggest majorty in Par- liament ever attained by any party leader.

The students from Midland lear- ned that there are many interes- ting things to see in Ottawa, from a 4day old Holstein calf at the Dominion Experimental Farm to a i-minute old silver dollar at our Royal Mint: from ancient records of our national history in the Dominion Archives to the Privy Council] Chamber, where history is made almost daily at meetings of our Cabinet.

There has been a huge in- crease over the past three years im the number of school-children who make such interest-packed visits to our National Capital, and nobody welcomes this trend more than our Prime Minister. He never taught school himself, although his brother did, but he is very alert to the value in such visits to children who will grow up to play their part in our de- mocratic system of government, even if by nothing more than vo- ting to elect the best man for the job.

The story of Bytown, the lum-

bering village which grew into our Capital; the battle for Con- federation; the structure of our

government including the Gover- i

nor-General, the Senate and the House of Commons; all these are sometimes just a dull lesson in a Social Studies class. But it all comes very vividly to life for a teen-ager who, like the boys and girls from Midland’s Regent School, can come to Ottawa and, skillfully sponsored by such a popular and influential M.P. as their own Dr. P.B. Rynard, are able to meet the Prime Minister in person and visit Government House.

Their very comprehensive itin-

erary here was planned between |

Wendy Feltham, selected ag the best letter-writer in the class, and Dr. Rynard. Careful and well- thought out plans certainly gave those children a sight of Ottawa such as the average tourist does not see. For example, they were able to go into the historic Coun- cil Chamber of the Cabinet, a room which a veteran M.P. such as Mr. Diefenbaker himself ne- ver saw until after he became our Prime Minister.

The grade teacher, Mr. W.H. Barnett, who with Mrs. Barnett accompanied the visitors as coun- sellor and chaperone, predicted that such a comprehensive tour of our Capital would leave class. “literally walking on air’’. They certainly were doing just that when I saw them enjoying lunch as the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Rynard.

A disturbing fact of life facing NATO is that France is deter- mined to have nuclear weapons and the United States will do nothing to help her get them.

The French position has led

Gen. Lauris Norstad, supreme Allied commander in Europe, to consider the withdrawal of 200 | United States fighter - bombers 'from France to bases in either | Britain or West Germany where | they could quickly be armed with | nuclear weapons. This development could se | verely damage France's relations | with the U.S. But President de | Gaulle appears unwilling to make |} any concessions and observers consider it just as unlikely that there will be apy change in U.S. atomic policy. ©

| This situation was seen with

| clarity at the recent Atlantic con- gress, when delegates from 14 of the 15\ NATO countries were presented with studies by mili; tary authorities, who warned that lack of a solution to the nuclear problem could tear the alliance apart. FRANCE’S STAND

Their warnings were under- scored by the crisis over France's refusal to allow atomic weapons *within her territory unless she can share control of them.

This followed France's decision te withdraw the French Mediter-

mand, her refusal ‘to accept American rocket bases and her decision to pull troops out of Eu- rope to fight the Algerian war.

De Gaulle’s stand is viewed as part of his campaign to fulfil his atomie and diplomatic aspira- tions. French military thinkers see the eventual possession of nu- clear retaliatory power as a pre- requisite not only of grandeur but of full national sovereignty.

The final declaratiini.of the congress avoided ‘discussing the problems posed by nuclear weap- ons—calling merely for increas- ing interdependence in the mill- tary field.

The political committee of the congress went slightly farther: it called on governments to exam- ine all means of convincing NATO members that American and Brit- ish- nuclear deterrents “will be used in the circumstances envis-

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France And Nuclear Weapons |

By David Oancis Canadian Press Staff Writer

these statements went far enough to satisfy the French delegation.

With practically no support from other delegations, the their thesis that continental Furope must have its own deterrent. Respon- sibility for defence could not be handed to an ally, however trusted.

The French maintain that there should be full sharing throughout the alliance and that only weap- ons free of U.S. veto can be re- lied upon toe deter the Russians in Europe.

Both the American and French positions have come in for some blunt criticism from Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO's outspoken Belgian secretary-general:

“Kh is certainly unwise to re- fuse to communicate one’s sec- rets to those with whom one has decided to defend all that one con- siders essential and sacred,” he said.

“On the other hand, # te un- reasonable to want to share one’s allies’ secrets and, at the same time, te claim complete freedom of action.”

The Age Old Story

Ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the pre- mise.

MORE BEER DRUNK LONDON (Reuters) — The world’s beer drinkers were thirst- ier last year, the Brewers Society said Saturday. Beer consumption

rose from 7,640,000,000 gallons in

1957 to 7,954,000,000 in 1958. Larg- est increase occurred in Western Germany, with a rise of 52,000,000 gallons.

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FRIENDLY LINKS 8 Britain in 1959 had 4 towns “twinned’’ with European towns since the movement began after the Second World War.

MAXIMS

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. OUR YESTERDAYS

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Messrs David Schurman and Frank Tinney Assistant Superin- tendents at the Experimental Farm, and Mr. R.R. Hurst, Plant Pathologist, left yesterday to at- tend the meeting of the Cana- dian Society of Technical Agricul- Monday and_continue until Fri- day next. i)

Harry Linkletter, Summerside,

Other officers are vice-president, Douglas Aitken, Bay Fortune; and Cecil J. Stewart, Hampshire; se- cretary4reasurer.

Grant Mollison of Summerside, ex-paratrooper of World Wer No. 2, highlighted the air show at

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* Observers .on this cutter only 900 yards away watched closely. ATTEMPT IS FAILURE

Kt bacame evident that the ice- berg had not done what was hop- ed—split in half and thus melt faster so as not to endanger

the main north Atlantic ship lanes. The plane circled and came

back for anotber run. This time the bomb struck the ocean sur- face 20 yards short of the ice berg, and there was no damaze. The plane flew 60 miles to Ar- gentia, Nfid., reloaded with two more bombs and made two more hit that did little damage and runs. One bomb made a glancing other three missed very narrow- peak by a. narrow margin and fell harmlessly inte the sea 50 yards behind it. PROBLEM WORST IN YEARS ° Four more bombs were drop-

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