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. TIIE , GIIAIILOTTETOWI GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded in I881)

President: Lleut. CoL W. Cheater S. MeLure Vice-President: J. B. Burnett. l‘. J. I. ecretary: Lient. Col. D. A. Maellinnon, 0.8.0. Editor and Managing Director: J. B. Barnett. I‘..I.l. Associate Editors: Frank Walker and Lleui. Ian A. Burnett, R.C.N.V.II. (On Active Service)

“The Siionges.‘ Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink." '

sa-rvnnav, AUGUST n, 194T .___________

The Maple Leaf At Caen

The Guardian is indebted to the Minister of National Defense for a photo-engraved rep- lica of Vol. 1, No. 1 (the initial issue in Norm- andy) of T/n- JIa/dc Leaf, France edition, I; was published in Cacn on july 27. The Maple Leaf, as most of our readers are aware, is a Canadian Army newspaper, published by Army personnel for the benefit of their comrades in active theatres of war. It was inaugurated in Italy on janilaly last, and is published there daily. Both editions of The IIIU/‘IL’ Lcaf—in France and Ital_v—arc the work of Army per- sonnel who do the writing, editing, type-set- ting. stereotyping alid printing. witlt the aid of local labor. 'l‘hc copies are distributed to all units, evclt those in tllc front line. Th0)’ are re- ceived usually on the day of issue, and natur- ally are qgcrly awaited and avidly read. They do not, of course, take the place of the "home paper", being limited to matters of general army interest, but they do fill a real need. Their prototypes were the "trench papers" of the last war, which every old-time veteran re- members, and of which nlany copies have been religiously presvrveil by their first owners.

In the first France issue of The Maple Lmf_ the original copy was blilrred in some places, due to the makeshift arrangements for printing on presses which had suffered from the shells of both our own guns and those of the enetny during the battle of (hen. \\'ould that every publisher could produce as good an alibi on occas- ion! The very defects of this historic issue will, of course, make it more valuable as time goes by and the war recedes into history. They will recall other things to the soldiers of today: memories of priceless comradeships enjoyed“ and hardships borne and shared in a glorious common cause.

‘Nazi Plot That Failed

With Germany encompassed on four major f-ronts and the Allies within a few miles of Paris and Warsaw, we can look back more complac- ently on what might have happened had not Britain stood firm in those days of imminent catastrophe. They should never be forgotten, either by us or olir good neighbors to the south.

How near the Nazis came to achieving con- quest of this continent after over-running Europe is disclosed ill an article of unusual in- terest in Nvunr, a Toronto publication. The writ- er recalls that when the British troops fought back and forth across North Africa they were doing more than protecting the Suez Canal. They were preventing the Germans front fix- ing their grip on Dakar, the base of a“pincer" move against this hemisphere. And when Am- erica had made ready, in the time gained by the heroic efforts of Britain's fighting men, the

' S. Liovcrnlrlent promptly threw the cream of its fighters into North Africa and after- wards into Italy, before it even considered at- tempting in the Pacific and the Far East any- thing more than delaying actions against the japs. The threat to North America was so im- minent at that phase of the war that the United States, like Britain, recognized it was necessary to sacrifice possessions in the Far East, and t0 withhold assistance from Australia, until after the battle of Africa was won.

“If it wasti’: because of the reality of the threat of Nazi invasion from the north-east" via Labrador," says the Nets: article, "why did the Canadian Government negotiate with the British and Newfoundland Governments the agreement under which Canada built on Ne\v- foundland territory, the Goose Bay airport, to- day the largest airport in the world? The fact is, that it was so essential to the defence of Can- ada. that Goose Bay airport be in operation before December 1941, that work on that pro- ject was given priority over almost every other. And the U-boats in the Gulf and the St. Law- rence the summer and autumn of I941 “pert! not hunting trans-Atlzllttic carIZOCS. b"! "Ymfl to ctlt off the cargoes and fuel and building Sllpfillf‘: and ilclzly the coillpIt-tion nf (JOOSC- Canadians who listened to Gcrtnan short-wave must recall hearing Lord Haw-Haw tell the wm-ld in i941 that the Nazi leaders knew all about the Goose Bay project, and that the Nazis would take it over and use it as _a base when they were ready to carry ollt their aerial war against eastern Canada." _ I

Germany had weather-reporting stations and air bases actually built in north-eastern. Green- land, as essentials preliminary to this invasion scheme. Tihey were destroyed by UAS. bomb- ers and ti“. L'_ _$',_ (fmq Guard service in co- operation with the Royal Dancs. _

Had Gcrmany~ SIICCCCEIECIIIYPGBSIYQYIIIK 31¢ Red Armies in 1941 and ridding herself for good of tllc fear of Ilussia at hcr hack, she would have launched hcr attack westward. For this purpose she kept her main naval force bas- ed always in northern Norway. _

"Had Germany once established an air base in Labrador, Gcrnlan bombers could have reach- ed and destroyed every power plant from Niag- ara east to the Atlantic. They could have bomb- ed all the industrial centres on the shores of the Si, Lawrence. They could have destroyed the ports of Montreal, Qllcl1ff._ Hflllfa-‘f- 5L 101"" Boston and New York. They could have C"! qff all supplies to llritain at the source, and ensured the li('l'|ll.'lll triumph ill laurfllle h)’ starving to ileatli, ncriirtling to plati, tilore than nzllf the piiiiiilatioii of the British Isles. Also,

I course, they \\'tfl_l|4l have captured or put out

i-nmmission at one blow the most important

aluminum manufacturing plant in Canada, and thus have completely crippled American nir- plane-building.

It is significant, comments the New: writ- er, that most of the Nazi sympathizers intern- ed early in the war by the R. C. M. P. were living in areas where, according to plan, the north-east and north-west arms of the Nazi pincers were to take their grip on Canada. Also that more than $6,000,000 in German funds were placed at the disposal of German Fascists liv- ing in Canada, for thepurpose of buying up tourist resorts and other properties surround- ing northern lakes in Ontario and Quebec, strategically located to be bases for air-borne troops and useful as hideouts and rendezvous.

It was a narrow shave for Canada in those days! Had this fact been more strongly em- phasized by our Government leaders, there might have been less confusion over the con- scription issue in Quebec and other provinces, and far more evidence of national unity in Par- liament itself.

EDITORIAL NOItS .-

Normalcy is now the order of the day loc-

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The coolest place anywhere tomorrow will the churches, rain or shine. II i 11 l1

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The first rail of Prince Edward Island Railway was laid this date 1872. It has been more or less neglected ever since.

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The police, both R.C.M.P. and City, were busy making raids on suspected places during the week, with what success remains to be

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j. Kinlcy, M. P., pointed out in the House that fishermen and fishermelfs coopera- tives pay Income and Excess Profits Taxes, be- cause they do not come within the Govern- ment's definition of cooperatives. 1B l Ill Ill

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Boys at the front uariouslyt report that they will be home by Christmas, by Summer, by next Old Home “leek. May it be so, the sooner the better. Lloyds of London is accept- ing risks as at November 15th.

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The King's nephew is s. prisoner in Germ- any. The Princess Royal, the King's sister, has received a letter from her son. Viscount Lascel- les, a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, who was wounded in Italy and captured by the Germans, saying his health is satisfactory and his wounds are healing.

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That $750,000,000 war gratuities plan will not become operative until some time after Oct- ober 1 this year but before the beginning of the new year, was due to an amendment by the Senate WlllCl1 was readily accepted in the House by Defence Minister j. L. Ralston. It was ad- mittcd by Col. Ralston that the Senate made the change after consultation with officials of his department and when it W55 realized that the plan could not be made efficiently operative by October 1. “It will be extremely difficult to have a smoothly running machine to pay gratu- ities and provide the necessary computations by October l," Col. Ralston explained to the House. So the amendment to the clause re- lating to the time on which the measure is to become effective now provides that it be made effective on proclamation at some date be- tween October 1 aiund ‘Jfillllaf! 1 next year-

Although the U. S. abolished tea and cof-

fee rationing months ago. Canada still has it. in

Everyone has plenty of both, but many hun- dreds of people are kept busy counting the used coupons, and the corner grocer has to stay up nights pasting them neatly on sheets of_pa.- pct; Yes, in; prospect for Government jobs after the war is excellent. But how many vet- erans will want Government jobs is a question. There are, of course, gOOd GOVCYHmCIII J°_b§- The best of them is that of the Deputy M111- istcr of Finance, who gets $121900 Pei’ Ya"- The vast majority are really poorly paid. For instance a man with 25 years’ service rcfiefllll/ stated that his salary was $2,100 p81‘ year Bndllb‘ taxes $496, leaving $134 per month for lum- sult and wifc. Most veterans would hope to do better after that time, but 1M5 ma" 15 "°_ by any means the lowest paid in the civil serv- ice.

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In the House of Commons, Mr. V. Dupuiii (Liberal, Chambly-Roliville. P.Q.), referring to familv allowances sairlr "Th8 contnlsts ill-lures (on ‘distribution nf families in Ontario and Quebec) are as follows:

Families with—— . Ont» Q1"-

fchild 128.766 1139.16 2 children 163.616 92.626 jcliildren 89.910 64.6.16 4 children 43,330 47i4°° 5 children .. . 26.136 33.346 a children . .. 13.956 25-766

8,040 19,840

4.386 - 13.936

2.386 9.466 10 or more children . 21460 13-2217

8 children 9 children

"As hon. members know, under this meas- ure the allowance is $5 for the first child under six years of age, $6 for ‘the child over SIX and under ten, $7 for the child over ten and undo!‘ thirteen, and $8 for the child over thirteen arid under sixteen, provided that for the fifth child the allowance is decreased by $1.; l0!’ ll" 5mm and seventh children it is decreased by $2 111d for the eighth child by $3. _So that small fam- ilies with less than five children benefit more than the larger families.

"I have made some computationyto illustrate what I understand the law to be. I have taken a family with eight children, with the youngest two

years old and the others four, six, eight, tett. twelve, fourteen atld fifteen. This family will

receive $45 a month. 'l'his example will illus- trate the fairness of the legislation as it is brought down, not only‘ in relation to those tn

nee master room-Toronto Telegram.

0n New Arm

cases: The Yanks have a W .- Irving chicken. - PQI ‘Ii-lbune.

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Winni-

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or l: w iii-y "iii. worst iii-i mi

but etialgyblw screen " Tllhat ougpt :0 : so many w a

m: kid next dcor-Ottavlvigmsfatt-

ntlllllllll the ocean. by plane .in six and one-half hours ls ood, we

' Id ship- "lll have to be re- fer dialogue-Win-

The Mum Iflllle to motorists i 104g] lflor the voluntary saving o e ..

nsumptlonl was lowered by 156,000,000 gallons.‘ lnnlpex Free Press.

.___.. Desires of Private Ralph Dyer, a ew Zealand soldier now in the South Pacific, for ostrich feathers have been amply met, according to re orts from Johannesburg. South A rlca. Dyer wrote asking the plumes for use as costume material Y the Ktwl Concert Party of which e ls a member. Three ostrich feather fans and a two-pound box of feathers havebcen forwarded to the soldier.

A Nnrwerian Who liu lu-l arriv- ed in England from his homeland reports that. humorous about. Germans and quls 110 1011891‘ is common l as they once were. It paratlvely seldom now

one hears jokes or wlsecrscks

about the Nazl personalities or conditions in general. This does not mean the People are losing heart, said the man. Rather it is an indicaflon of a. new seriousness that has izrlp-

as the day of victory draws nearer. From News of Norway.

It i: comforting to know that thlg province ts one ot the less danger- ous places so far as lightning ls concerned and perhaps that is a point which our tourist authorities W811i; emphasize in their literature describing the attractions of New Brunswick. Even if the chances of getting killed by lightning are one in a million there are many people who are terrified by the flashes and explosion; attending a storm of this kind. They could feel much more secure In this province by the sea than in their lightning-ridden places of abode in inland districts-Saint John Telegraph-Journal.

From time of the "mes

vlle and objectionable. He stoops lower than stealing the babyks candy; he ls more vlclous and contempt- lble. less moved _by decency and human appeal: his soul ls small and parched of any tendencies-in short. he steals the baby's pants. Police "D011 that; in his latest raid six- n diapers were snatched from a clothsline in a backyard where they were being dried by the warm sun and flutfed uo by the gentle breeze. lnnlpeg Tribune.

Dn the eve of

the Allied invasion of the German strongholds in Eur. ope. the Qulsllngs of Slovakia start,- ed a new anti-American campaign. It aims to counteract the Allied radio propaganda beamed in the Slovakian language from the Am- erican radio stations. On May l5, s. Fascist daily published a scurril- ous attack against the presidents of the United States. All the pres]. dents beginning with George Wash- gton, and Thomas Jefferson were branded as Free Masons, whose Principles are responsible for lhe alleged failings of America. Czechoslovak Bulletin.

One thing Hitler is accomplish- ing with the robot bomb is to make American isolatloriists seem more f0 ish than ever. Here ls a wea- pon that ls theoretically capable of being used against this nation from launching points 3,000 miles away in Ellffllie. In its first tryout lt killed many people. Of course. it is still a primitive weapon. But when it ls refined, it could, without any trouble. cross the ocean and lay vraste Darts of New York and De- troit as easily as it uemollshes parts of Eklgllsh cities. That is the ab- solute end of lsolatlonlsm. A 20th century weapon catches 11p with an 18th century doctrine and smashes it to bits-New York Post.

The Germans are neither super- men nor, for the most, part, fanatics. But the habit of obedience l; strong upon them. If their officers desert them. or lead them to surrender, they Rive un with great cheerful- ness and relief. but a command to fight on ls obeyed. Nelthzr in the last. War nor as yet ln this has Ger- man discipline been tested to the cracking point-to the point at which, in defiance of their officers and in the face of the enemy, the rank and file decide that for them the war is over. Perhaps that event may come in this war: perhaps, as before. the officers will determine the issue in Hitler's despite. If neither way out is taken. the Wehr- scht will simply be ground to pieces. The Allies have the strength and the skill to do it. - New York Her- ald Tribune.

Among the of this and every other war since tlme be an are the wives and widow- ed mot GT5 of the soldiers. sailors and marines who stay at home and keep the family together While their men are sway at battle. Although better provided for now than ever before, many of them still must un- dergo hardships that would not have been imposed with their men- folks at home. Theirs not to do and die but to stay home and wait, wait for the return. or for the notice from the Government which means there will be no home-coming ever again, only long years of loneliness and heartache and burdens. Ibr every Molly Pitcher, who has the Opportunity to men a gun, or s Mrs. Kelly who, for a day, wears her first orchid coinage to welcome home her hero son. there are, hundreds of thousands whose-names are never in the papers, who clay after day are doing the unhernlc Jobs of dust- ing and sweeping, tending s garden and mowing the yard and writing

(Jittario who criticize it, but also in relation to 31°“ l" Quebec?

cheerful letters to APO addresses, from France and Italy to the Paci- fic lslsndm-Nsw York Times.

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ose thefts are even more u,

little-sung heroines g,

0 u r D u t y To The King’s Forces

By Ion. John Bracken Leader o! tho Progressive Conservative Party

Text of an sildrcu delivered at. lrrlaana, Alberta, on August 11th.

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I propose to deal now wltti our policy regarding the men and women on service after they have been arsed or demobll There are two main points to be considered. One is that, of a lob for every man and woman fit for work. The other is that. of the care of those who have been disabled in service.

In_ the platnest words at. my com mand I say to you that nothing short. of full-time gainful employ- ment for evoery man and woman

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who has worn the C nadlsn unl- form will be acceptaib e.

Every man and woman must be glven an opportunity to cam a good living.

If existing enterprise cannot do

this. the State must. and will. I re- '

Peat. - n0 man or woman who has worn the king's uniform and who is able to work must he permitted jtgbgo without the opportunity of a

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Our policy on demobilization ls realistic and definite. As a mat- ter of common Justice the prln Clpleg of “first in - first out," and "first. overseas - first back" should be followed a5 closely as the military situation permits. When I speak of "first in" I mean to include also in that term those young men and women who 1m- latelv upon obtaining enlist- ment ake have volunteered for gen- eral servlce. Our men overseas will realize that the new mechanics cf returning them to Canada will be extremely difficult and compli- cated and that there will be de- lay. The enormous numbers who will have to be moved from one country to another all over the Allied world will create a mass transportation problem the like of which the world has never seen even ln time of war. It is not s. case of repatrlating Canadian personnel only - the problem is one which will affect practically all of the United Nations. Endless patience and cooperation between the various countries will be nec- essary. The principle of give nnd take will have to be excerciscd to a tremendous degree. Bu; none of these factors should be allowed w interfere with basic Justice, those longest in the service should not be denied the right u; the 9M1-

lest. return home.

- - - Our men and women overseas Slwllld be kept. thoroughly posted on the situation.

what L; being pla

reasons for the plans, I am sure their cooperation and understand- ing will follow. But

ment must

England during the arml- stlce days of the last war. must. as a nntlon, sag, to it, transportation home ls well an- ned and that equitable treatment. l5 glven to the men and women who [lave been away so long. There will bi.- many factors involved in the task of bringing them home as quickly as possible to resume their war-Interrupted lives. But. neither unnecemiary delays or unfairness will be countenanced on the part.

the Goverrunent or its reepcnsi le agents.

It. would appear now that Canada will be expected to provide part of the urn-lies of occupation which will be necessargi after the war is over. Knowing at. a number of those who aremow serving have expressed i; desire to continue in lie post war armed forces, it is our view that thev should be given the choice to volunteer for this occupational service.

In such event provision should be made for them to have leave in Canada as soon as possible. Our policy is thht they should every opportunity for education and trsilng during their period of service in the armies of occupation and that, special consideration should be given to see that proper Jobs are available for them on the conclusion of their military ser-