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- ‘ Ironic Coincidence ' Prime Minister Pearson’s propos- al for a Commonwealth declaration 01' racial equality is reported to have made a big hit at the Commonwealth conference on Monday. It won the approval of the African delegates and drew from the Manchester Guardian a signal tribute of com- tmendation. .. The proposal emphasized that the Commonwealth “has a particular role to play in the search for solu- tions to the inter-racial problems Which are threatening the orderly development of mankind in general and of many particular areas in the world today.” It called upon th e prime ministers to affirm their be- lief that “for all Commonwealth governments, it should be an ob- jective of policy to build In each country a structure of society which confers equal opportunity and non- discrimination for all its people ir- iespective of race, color or creed.” 7 Meanwhile, at Geneva on the same day, a conference of the United Na- tions Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization came to an abrupt halt over an issue involving incl-Isl inequality in a non-Common- wealth country. The break-up came when African and Communist states insisted on bringing to a vote their resolution calling for the expulsion Portugal. African delegations éhouted and stamped their feet as delegates of 40 countries—including Canada, Britain and the United States—walked out. Sm This was the first time that Western countries, including the iratin American republics. had walk- ed out of an international confer- ence in protest against an African resolution. The 50 countries that. remained in the conference cast 43 notes in favor of the resolution with .peven abstentions. _ Doubtless there were valid rea- gons for the walkout; but unfortun- ntely it is likely to provide more Communist propaganda among Afri— ban states that can be offset by all the speeches in favor of racial equal- ity at the Commonwealth conference in London. It just goes to show what an appallineg difficult problem is involved in this age-old issue, dud how much remains to be done before a solution can be hoped for.

Questions On Cyprus

; Asked in the House of Commons this week about a possible evacuation 6f the 1,122-man Canadian contin- gent in Cyprus, Defense Minister Hellyer said his department is fully aware of its responsibilities to main- tain the oontingent and is keeping in mind the interests of Canadian troops. He declined a direct reply to NDP Leader Douglas seeking as- surance there would be no Canadian withdrawal from the island without the agreement of the United Na- tions. Yet be emphasized that the Government “does not intend to take any action which would lower the potential power of the United Nations in Cyprus."

These ambigious answers didn’t satisfy the Opposition. nor were they calculated to give much en- lightenment to the Canadian public generally. But Mr. Hellyer here is in a difficult position, and we are inclined to agree with a commen- tator who argues that he is right in refusing to be drawn on a subject of this kind. The anxious question- ing to which'he is being subjected la understandable, but hls reluctance in giving specific answers is based on sound reasons.

The Cyprus situation is in a Mo bordering on crisis. There is as M a good d‘l of information

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coming into the defense department which it would be improper to dis- close publicly, either because Can- ada is only one contributor to the international force there, or because publication would have an adverse effect on negotiations involving the

peace of the whole area. Under'

such circumstances, with the threat of spreading war in the eastern Mediterranean. the minister alone can be the judge of whether a. par- ticular reply would, or would not, breach the public interest.

External Affairs Minister Mar- tin drew pointed attention to this fact before the committee on ex- ternal affairs when he said that in the parliaments of the other coun- tries contributing forces to the Un- ited Nations, "the day~by-day con- duct of the force has not been a sub- ject for the governments concerned to constantly defend or explain.”

This does not relieve a minister of the obligation of being as forth- right as possible with the House. But it is one of the few cases in which discretion must be conceded to lie with the minister himself. It is obvious that the Opposition also bears a responsibility. in exercis- ing reasonable restraint in the questions it puts to the Government.

Merits Priority

The growing public concern over the problem of mental illness is strikingly reflected in the proceed- ings of the Royal Commission on Health Services. The commission received more briefs on this topic than on any other, apart from the organization and financing of medi- cal services generally, and it has given it a key position in its re— port.

The report proposes, among oth- er things, that the federal Hospital lns-IIrance and Diagnostic Services Act be amended to designate wards of mental hospitals in which pat- ients are receiving active or con- valescent care as “facilities” under the act. The effect would be to make provincial mental hospitals eligible for federal grants on the same basis as general hospitals.

As has been pointed out many times, one reason for the unsatis- factory state of mental health care in Canada is lack of funds. Despite

the prevalence of mental disease,

very much less is spent on its treat- ment than on the treatment of physical illness. A system of fed- eral grants to mental hospitals such as the commission urges would do a great deal to correct this situa- tion and improve the standard of care.

Nor is there reason why further time should be lost in introducing this reform. It would not require a constitutional amendment or elab- orate consultations with the prov- inces. It has been suggested that the Government could bring down the necessary legislation at the pres- ent session of Parliament. Why not? We can't imagine any party opposing a measure of this kind, or raising any objection to it being given priority on the agenda.

Junk By The Highway

Nova Scotia has taken action to ensure against turning areas in the vicinity of highways into auto junk- yards and scrapheaps. Since July 1, anyone in the province who wishes to keep old cars, used machinery or scrap metal within 1,500 feet of the centre line of a provincial highway must first get a license from the Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities. .

Under the new act the board must be satisfied that "the premises upon which such bodies of automobiles or other materials are placed, stored or kept will not be unsightly or offen- sive to any part of the travelling

public."

This move has draum an expres- sion of warm approval from the Montreal Gazette. Nothing, it says truly, is so depressing as the sight of whole fields full of ruin and decay. Such junkyards have their place. But their place is out of sight. It may be hoped that a law will be passed in every province to put these rusty graveyards where they cannot be seen.

EDITORIAL NOTE "A few years from now," pre- dicts the london Free Press, “when all the bills have been paid, there will almost certainly be a Royal Commission on the Costs and Results of the Royal Commission on Bilin- gualism and Biculturalism—and so

on, ad infinitum." .

SHADES OF JOHN FOSTER oqus

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CRISIS FOR KHRUSHCHEV Foieful Meeting Scheduled For Worsow

Soviet Premier Khrushchev is faced with one of the biggest crises of his career. It is not the great schism with ns— al- though that ls directly connect- ed with the danger mow threat- ening him. It is the situation in Eastern and Central Europe, where Moscow's once monolithic control of the loc Commun parties is being eroded faster and faster. with poor Mr, Khru- shchev seeming increasingly im- potent to stop the process.

East German uprising of 1953 and the events of l in Poland and Hungary were I

But then the Kremlin was able. in the last resort, to use force to impose its will.

Threatened with lnsubordlna- tion from the national Commun- ist parties . Khruah chev knows that he cannot tanks and guns and still expect to get away with it. The monol- ith is far too deeply splintered for it ever to be put together again — even with armed force.

INDEPENDENT

Poland and Romania are the countries to watch. Both have managed to assert their inde- pendence of Moscow. while still professing their loyalty to com-

unism and yet avoiding iden- tification with the Chinese inter- pretation of party dogma.

Both are apparently determin- ed to resist Mr. K‘hrushchev’s pressure to get them to toe the line and concur in an early ex- pulsion of China from the world Communist movement.

But Mr. Khrushchev has now put the out among the pigeons by either misreading the signals or acting too crudely. On June 15, Wiadyslaw Gomulka addres- sad the Polish Communist Party and told it. in effect. that Poland would agree to Moscow's call for a meeting of world Commun- ist partles~~ but only after care- ful preparation.

On the very same day, the

PUBLIC FORUM

his column Ia opal la the dlacuaalaa

aarlly endoraa the a Ialau of canal-

pOIdaula. All lauara published an aub-

sacl to editing and caudauaallau when

necessary. The Guardian Ia unable la

cuter lulu any carrraapaudauea regard- lellora submitted

INLETS AND OUTLETS Sin—There has «been a great hue and cry in this provlnce for more liquor outlets, and the re- quests have been granted. Yet there are many of the thirsty ones who are not satisfied. The problem a intoxicating liquor baa plagued the human race since the dawn of history; and the indications are um it will be so until history fokh up. m e

dfects by indulgence in strong drink. Thouaanda sermons have been preached on the suf- fering and misery it creates. But all to no avail. Women have been asserting their rights, now, many of them are indulging the habit, and that speak. ill for the coming generation. Humanly

speaking, it Is beyond the pawn: of man to control fleauly ap. petites. Only the G

race (I Got!

in his heart can do that. If you a (slim of mpg drink;

0 seek God's

habit before it will be too late. There are many passages in the Bible which condemn

liquors. Take the Bible and turn to let Corinthians. mater 5, vane 11. and chapter a, verse 10. amber-lug that if there were fewer "inlets". there woukl be less need of more "outlets." I am. Sir, etc.

ED. JOHNSTON

Manama.

Montreal Gazette

Soviet Communist Party report- edly sent off to the Chinese (with a c opy to Wamaw) as tough and insulting an epiatle as yet been exchanged tween Moscow and Peking. It is said to have contained the announce- ment that a world Communist meeting was imminent. BLOW To GOMULKA This. of course, was a blow to

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Mr. Gomulka- and c n ex- pected to make him ion. in ot more, cooperative with M . Khrushchev. These other Eur-

opean Communists —- not least the Romanian and Italian par- ties — who want to keep flexi- bility within the world move- ment are likely to have reacted similarly.

It is no coincidence that since June 15. the moat independent of all “national” Communists, Mardhal Tito, baa confe with both the Polish and Rom- anian leaders. The latter could probably make good use of his advice.

1‘. Khrushchev spent the second half of June in Scandin- avia, and to that extent h a I been off-stage as the crisis has been coming to a head. But Mr. Gomulka haa persuaded him to accept an lnvltatlon to Warsaw on y 22 for the twentieth an- niversary of that clty'a libera- tlon from the Nazis.

That meeting is likely to be as crucial for Mr. Khrushchev’a fu- ture as for Mr. Gomulka'a.

_, In History’s

The study of early man, own as paleoan‘chropolozy. sounds as dry to most people as the old bones that make up its subject matter. Thanks largely to the efforts of one man, how- ever, this science has been fir- ing the imagination of large numbers of people at intervals. Dr. Louis B. Leakey,a British anthropologist, has been scram- bling oven- . slopes Olduvia Gorge in Tanganyika, East Africa, for more than a generation. In recent years. he. and his chief assistant, his wife, have revolutionized our knowl- edge of modern man'a family ee

r . .. His newest discovery. the bon-

es of what he calls "Home abil- '

B-oneyo rd Expoallor

roots of that tree back at least 1,000,000 years. What is even more In first this

pm man may have been more advanced than species which appeared hundreds of thousands of years later.

I Vitiligo Poses

A picture of- the prehistoric world is emerging in which var- ious strains of men and near- meu lived and atrqu th nature and perhaps each other

. One of the types resulted in modern man. Which one. we do not yet

know.

The queation now is whether success will spell Homo sap— lens. Eli learns to

W won’t be anyone around to

is” (able man). may push the

While he was in Russia, Lee Harvey Oswald. President Ken- nedy's suspected assassin. kept a diary. This has aorme or other become public. It is pub- lished in the current laws of Life magazine.

It would require a psychiatrist to fully assess the significance of this strange document. But any reader of it can appreciate that it reveals a very confused and bewildered personality.

On the surface, it tells the story of a' man who was dlalllua- ioned by life in the United Stat- es; who fled to the Soviet Union and budgeted its officials into letting himself become a real- dent, believing he would discov- er some sort of ideal life: and

o soon became just as disillu- sioned by life in Russia and than badgered Russian and American officials into letting hm ram home. As is only too well known his return home did not end his

lament him a

dlslilm or happy man. It seems that Oswald was a

man who would have dia- aatlsfled and dialllu slouad w rever be was. and whatever he was doing. Thla la certame the impression left by his diary. Ila dlallusonmenf was not with any particular society or way of life; it was with all society and wfth life in mam.

He was a man who aougbf the single- : u of oth- an by doing aeuaatlonal things, even to the point of attemtlug to commit suicide while in Moa- cow, an event be recounts in his diary with an obvious fella:

man. to Russia was oflbokama

Man; m w. it

return totheUnlted m. hla

estimates-12m, and

manhunt-disarmi- f.

Itlakuowu (balls his youth

FARM

Some 6,500 exhibitors from more than so cannula will take ml in use 1064‘ Walt autumn

in East Germany.

search for his bones someday. I

Oswald’s Diary.

Hundred Guam

Oswald received a psychiatric examination, and was recom- mended for psychiatric treat- ment. The almost illiterate diary he kept while in Ruaala points to the am need: Oswald Will a alck man: as Attorney- General Robert Kennedy has laid, "a mlaflt in society.”

Each year lhe defense depart- ment glvea away tens of thou-

a s of ummmlflou to rifle club affiliated with the National Rifle association.

Through it. office of civilian

fish is to W. the

marksmaudup of civilian "as

a part of the country‘s national euaa lily." the

are me of «cabin posted far out on the lunatic fringe. Two exampl- wm offered usually by the New Equbllc.

There in a right wh' Mlle outfit known as the Minutemen. In Calla-uh, state officials say. the group ha been In

A Challenge

by Dr. mum a Van Mlle- SOME la loaa akin pil- ment in irregular islands ivllin llgo). These individuals do not look forward to the summer moullu becauaa exposure to the Inn aggravates the condi- tlou. White patches on face. neck, arms. or back of the become whl

be an more noticeable. This la an ill- usion: the normal aur- rouudlng the white apota tuna whereu the unpllmentcd areas" remain 9 some. Vltlillo presents a challenge to dermatologists’. The patchaa round or imagine: in ahape and vary in sin. Only one or two I be present or denia- mentatlon may involve half the

body a over the affected

akin may lose their coor. Vitilluo should not be ‘con- fuaed with albinism in bi

ma Succeaai‘ul treatment depends upon who the calla can be stimulated with hormones or methoxsaleu drugs.

The latter are taken orally or painted over the lesions. This makes the skin overly sensitive to ultraviolet light. The melan- ocytes may be stimulated pro- vided the individual la exp to J gradually increasing doa- age of sunlight about 45 minu- tes after the medicine la used.

Burning must be avoided and the product should never be used except under the super- vision of a physician. Further-

. it takes several months for replgmentatlon to occur and users must be on the alert for side reactions.

The psoralens are tricky to use and most victims will find it safer to stick with the older remedies Avoid the sun to pre- vent tanning of the normal skin. Stein the patches the color of normal skin. There are several stains available but the proper mixt u re is needed. Therefore it is wiser to con- sult a specialist. Some derma- tologists recommend tattooing. the white spots with gold salts. Four to 12 treatments usually are needed and the best results are seen on face and neck.

Aloha - MSH l a melano- cyte stimulating hormone t‘h t may offer hope for the future. It acts directly on the pic- ment formian cells. but its use in this condition has not b eon evalua . CALCIUM AND AGE

5. M. writes: Is it true that old age is caused by calcium leaving the bones?

REPLY

No, but many oldslera suffer from a deficiency of because of too little in d' As a result. the be y steals the mineral from the bones and a variety of aym toms occur. including bac - ache and bowlng of the extremi-

ties. UNLIKELY A.P. writes: Could heavy drinking on the part of the father

cause a b a b y to be mentally lets

Probably not, considering the many causes of mental retard- ation and the number of child- ren with this condition whose parents are not heavy drinkers.

PUNCTURE AFTER STROKE

C. M. writes: Why is a spinal

puncture give" War a stroke? REPLY

This is not a routine proce- dure in strokes. But it is (I one now an then to determine whether a hemorrhage la nes-

rumona that the pains following hemorrholdecfomv are extre- mely severe. Is this no? REPLY

This is a sensitive area and the surgeon orders medication to relieve pain. Today's Health Hint—

A low to the car may da- mave hearing.

(Note: All correspondence to Dr. VenDellen should a dressed to: D

a. a

bune. Chicago, Illinois.)

Weapons For Fonotics?

Mllwuhaa Journal

weapons for their own . “it! you are ever going to buy a gun. buy it new!" de- clares On Target.