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PAGE 4+ ‘TUESDAY, JUNE 2,

Peace Bid Roadblock

When the Commonwealth mission to bring peace to Viet Nam was de- cided upon at London last week. it was believed that it would be diffi- cult:for the Chinese Communists, or the North Vietnamese, to refuse to see a peace delegation sponsored by an organization representing one- fourth of the human race. almost every political philosophy, and every continent and skin complexion. In essence, it was argued, the Common- wealth would be speaking for human- itv in proposing to send five of its leaders to Moscow, Peking, Washing- ton, Hanoi, and Saigon to try to bring about a peace conference. -

Both China and North Viet Nam, however, have been quick to react to the fact that the Commonwealth in-

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suggestion of the British prime min- |

ister, Mr. Wilson, and, more import- antly, to his appointment as mission chairman. They had already refus- ed to see Britain's earlier emissary, Patrick Gordon Walker, on_ the ground that he represented a nation Closely associated with the United States. Now they contend that the

whole scheme is a hoax, intended to |

pull American chestnuts out of the fire.

This is what some of the Common- wealth members from Africa and Asia had warned would happen when the mission was set up; and it seems

specie! dispatches here |

strange, in the circumstances, that more consideration was not given to their views. Certainly their oppos- ition to Mr. Wilson as chief spokes- Man. openly expressed. over the week- end. provided all the lead the Com- munists needed in voicing their hos- tility.

A real showdown on the question may come at the second Afro-Asian conference which opens in Algiers on June 29. Twelve, possibly 13, of the Commonwealth members will be attending the conference. So also, probably. will be Premier Chou En-

lai of China, President Ho Chi Minh of North Viet Nam, plus leaders of the Viet Cong. This will be a signifi- cant personal confrontation, the tone of which may well decide whether there is any hope that a peace mis- -sion would prove acceptable at this tirne, with or without Mr. Wilson's embarrassing presence.

New Research Project

_-The Canadian Parliamentary |

Guide is an excellent reference work, but, since it is published yearly, its biographical Sketches are confined to the careers of current parliamentar-

were nt published between 1891 and 1897. But the researchers found no convenient guide like the wall of the lobby of the Ontario Legislature where the names of all Ontario MLAs have been chiselled since the build- ing was opened

The real difficulty, Mr. Johnson savs, has been in running down the date of the death of certain obscure members who were elected from long vanished constituencies and sat only briefiy in Parliament. The archives

staff has been helpful here. News- papers files have been another fruit- ful source of information.

Some fascinating stories have turn- ed up in the search. But most of these are “incidental” and will have to be omitted because of the need to keep down the length of the individ- ual biographies. Which seems a pity. Our own preference in biography has always been for the spicier details. But we are reminded that this is a serious work and that the taxpayers’ moriéy shouldn't be spent frivolously.

_No Counteroffensive

It is to be hoped that something concrete will result from U.S. Vice- President Humphrey's visit to Presi- dent de Gaulle on Sunday. and that the relations’ between Washington and Paris will take a more amicable turn in future. They can stand it The fault isn't all on one side, but it is not hard to understand why de Gaulle’s policies have been such a source of irritation to our American neighbors.

He insists. for example, on keep- | ing the main body of French military | forces out of NATO defense system,

contributing only a division and a_ half to America’s six. He persists in developing an independent nuclear | force. He recognizes Red China and | North Viet Nam and supplies them

with vital commodities. He denoun- ces American policy in southeast Asia, even though America is there primarily because of French failure.

It is not forgotten, either, that he boycotted the Normandy ceremony commemorating American landings of World War II—an uncalled for snub of the men who helped to liberate France. At his insistence, too, the- Bank of France has been exchanging more of its dollar reserves for gold— an obvious attempt to discredit the | United States’ role as banker of the free world.

Exasperated by these “anti-Amer- ican policies,” a Democratic senator has been urging, in the New Republic magazine. that the United States un- leash a counteroffensive by embark- ing on a calculated program to choke off dollars that now flow into France. This would mean restricting Amer- ican purchases of French: goods, re- duction of dollar expenditures for , troops stationed in France, restric- tions on travel. etc.

As the Milwaukee Journal obser- ves, this unwise proposal would un- doubtedly create more problems than it would solve. Nor it is likely that President Johnson has any intention of adopting _ it. visit to Paris at this time, indeed, is reassuring proof to the contrary.

Amid The Carnage

The carnage in Viet Nam goes on, reminding the world, once again, that war is a beastly business and that ‘civil war is beastlier than most:

| Yet through it all, and despite severe

ians: and one must go back through |

old issues for information on those

who preceded them in the public life |

of the country. Now a research pro- ject is being carried out by the Pub-

lic Archives to remedy this omission. _

The work in hand is a Biographical

Directory of Parliament, which will | run ‘to between 500 and 600 pages and contain the biographies of the |

600 senators and the 2,800 or so MPs who have sat in Parliament since Confederation. Research for the book was started -a-Vear ago by Keith Johnson, editor

of the publications division of the |

archives and two assistants. It is to be a centennial project, with publica- tion date set as soon after July 1, 1967 as possible. Although it will be “Tess stylized than the Parliamentary

Guide, a standard format will be used. ,

Names will run alphabetically. with indexes and a possible compilation of the members by riding.

- In an interview in the Ottawa

Journal Mr. Johnson gives an account |

of the work involved in research of this kind. The Senate has been fair- by easy to. record. he says, because the staff there has maintained ex- tensive records of senators over the years. Parliamentary Guides have --been a fundamental source of infor- mation about MPs although the guides

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continue steadily with a campaign of...

animal vaccination. This is hard to credit, but it is so stated in a report from Dr. Ross Cockrill, of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Or- ganization.

The work of these teams, he points out, will have a tremendous in- fluence on the future well-being of the country, but it is being carried on under the most dangerous con- ditions. The whole country is virtual- ly a battlefield with a few centres of

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relative peace. like Saigon the capital. |

and the only reasonably safe method of transport between these spots is by air.

“But these teams get into their lorries and just go out, taking the risk.’ reports Dr. Cockrill. ‘“Some- how or other Dr. Vu Thien Thai. di- rector of veterinary services in Viet Nam, has managed to keep his teams working very nearly to full capacity in South Viet Nam and the central area. great many members of his staff,

And although he has lost a |

killed, missing or taken prisoner, he .

has managed to carry on with the vaccination campaign against rinder- pest and hog cholera very satisfactor- ily indeed.”

Truly a striking example of ded- | icated service. deserving of more | publicity than it has heretofore re- ceived.

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OTTAWA REPORT By

Patricx Nicholson

Who Will Fill Balcer’s Vacant Seat?

Which Conservative MP will ;

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bec leader and chief lieutenant Leon Balcer? Seats in the House of Com-

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two who were appointed as “window- dressing” ministers after the disintegration of the Diefenbaker cabinet and after the dissolution of parliament. There are also five long-serving MPs who did not attain cabinet rank: Elston Cardiff. elected in 1940; Wally Nesbitt and Marvin Howe. both elected in 1953: George Doucett. former Ontari® Cabinet Minister, who was first elected in 1957; and also in the - class of "57 there is Bob Coates. recently promoted to the front bench to replace the late George Nowlan as senior member from Scotia. And there is that empty seat.

GOOD MPs SNUBBED

By seniority, one might expect the second row to be filled the rest of the class of 57: by class of ‘58—the year of the Con- servative sweep: and the bacx the miscellany first elected to parliament—or new- ly joining the Conservative ranks—in the Sixties.

Most of the second row is fill- ed_by the "57 group— plus Tom Bell. elected in 1953, and Jim McBain, elected in 1%4 But five admirable members of the class of ‘57 have been squeezed

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way for their juniors and — in most cases—their patent infer- | iors. These are AM Hales, who | is chairman of the important |

Our Yesterdays (From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO; (June 22, 1940)

Wave upon wave of German bombers blasted at southern and eastern England with heavy demolition and incendiary bombs early today in the most violent air attack of the war.

~ A Yes or no answer— uncondi-

. with a fair attendance

tionally and now— was demand- ed of France to the terms of a conquerors peace dictated by Adolph Hitler. Whatever their reply. | Hitler has ordered brought to Berlin the long-en- shrined railway car where de- feated Germany signed an arm- istice in 1918 in Compiegne For- est.

TEN YEARS AGO (Jaume 72. 1955) Rev. EC. Evans was elected , grand master of Masons im P_E. Island at the 8%h annual com-

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thinking men of the party. and agricultural expert Billy Thom- as

The second row seats to which these five members have valid claims have instead been allo cated to three comparative un- knowns of the clasé of °38—Pic- Grafftey and Nugent: to off-again membe- of the "58 class who has subse-

Obvious candidates for promo- tion to the honour and dignity of that-empty front bench seat are AM Hales, Heber Smith, Eldon

Wooliams and Tom Bell— the latter being chairman of the caucus committee on national revenue—also Heath Macquar- rie. the historian- conscience of the caucus, and Gordon Fair- weather, former Attorney Gen- eral of New Brunswick who is chairman of the caucus commit- tee on Justice. These caucus committee .chairmen constitute the Conservative “shadow cab- inet” and ‘are therefore Very ‘ Important People. Yet Gordon Fairweather. is humbled by be- ing seated im the back row in the House: it is significant that each of these six MPs are pub- liely declared or privately con- sidered to be critics of their leader—none would feel uncom- fortable sitting in the front row im ti’ company now there. and any ne would decorate it

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When he was in Cork, Ireland. he told a crowd: “I would like te introduce to you the pastor of the church I go to. who comes from Cork. Monsignor O Mah- ony. He is the pastor of a poor,

humble flock in Palm Beach, | Florida. There is a quip in the hook

Ottawa in June, 1961. Mrs. Ray-

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then Minister of Defence Prod-

uction. told. the. president that; all her relatives in Ohio and |

Connecticut had voted for him. Kennedy smiled and remarked,

Scrivener's _ Cramps |

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Delles | Writer's cramp is a vanishing disease. It was encountered fre- before the. typewriter clerks labored monot- for hours preparing vol- of meticulous script. The malady was Called scrivener's

. Harry Lee Par-, old auction- |

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He was given a month's rest and returned to work. He- did well for three weeks and then

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bids changed rapidly and the ‘ figures were missed when he

had to change the paper.

A similar condition is noted among telegraphers.. milkers, cigar makers, violinists, and barbers ‘scissor’s cramp). Spasm occurs only when finger | movements of the hands are re- | quired. It is unusual today | among bank clerks because | machines are used to make up | accounts. = .

Writer's cramp is said to be

“incurable once it has developed. |

The cause is not known. Neurol- | ogists explain it on the basis of nerve exhaustion, and psychia- trists on a submerged hatred for writing.

SPRAINED ANKLE

1. T. writes: I sprained my ankle and it is taking a long time to heal. Is this the usual thing?

REPLY

Sprained ankles fail to heal when (1) treatment is inade- quate: (2) the sprain really is a fracture: (3) the individual has had repeated sprains and the overstretched ligaments no long- er are able to support the ankle.

MYOPIA M. M. R. writes: What is Meant by the term “second sight” in a 70-year-old man? REPLY

Shortsightedness (myo pi a) often develops in the beginning of senile cataract. A person who needed glasses for reading at 40 finds he can read again without them. This. is second sight ,

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AFRAID OF THUNDER H. S. writes: Is there any way to overcome a horrible fear of thunder? REPLY A psychiatrist may be able to help but it is easier to admit the, fear, learn all about thunder \ and lightning, and seek out the safest places during a storm. THYROID LACK A. L. writes: What is a cretin? BEPLY A child who is born with an thyroid

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Rhodesia’s Future

By Cari Molling

leaders ap- be heading into a mas- dispute over the explosive of Rhodesia’s future, Can- informants said Sunday.

| Rhodesian majority and Brit- warily | nadians Saturday—are calling

j isfaction on Rhode sia, an infor | publicly criticized aspects of | the Viet Nam mission after it was announced Thursday.

| National Union visited the Ca-

would provoke a-schism in the foreéconomic sanctions immedi Commonwealth conference, } ately to force Smith to give the

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that lack of a firm decision for |

action at the conference today would provoke Africans in Rho- desia and elsewhere to take mil- itary action against the minor- ity white government of Rhode- sian Premier lan Smith.

Host Prime. Minister Wilson, already entangled in attempts to put teeth into his Common wealth peace mission on Viet Nam. was reported worried about the disruptive impact and damaging reprecussions of the Rhodesian dispute.

African delegates may decide they want no part of the Viet Nam venture if they get no sat-

| 3,000,000 Rhodesian Africans the | vote

Canada is unwilling to use sancticns as a form of political pressure in advance, but would go along with a genera! boycotts if Smith moved to establish gov- ernment by the 220,000 whites as a permanent constitutional fixture. an information s?i~

Britain has rejected African demands to send troops info Rhodesia and take over Smith's government

Prime Minister Pearson is scheduled to speak about Rho- desia during today’s debate. He said “there is no possibility of peace there withqut a gover®- ment the wil! of the people.”

~ The Cliff Hanger

Montreal Gazette

Prime Minister Harold Wil- son's government seems to be standing ‘at the edge of the pre- cipice. It has already survived defeat in the House of Commons by one vote. And just recently it survived only because of a vote cast by the Speaker of the House — brought about because the government lose by one vote next time round? :

It is clear that Mr. Wilson's

government continues to live by |

luck and accident. On the occa-

sion when the Speaker had to |

cast his vote, three Labor Members were actually in the building, but did not get to the lobby in time; one was showing visitors around, another was talking to someone, and stil! an- other was in the library.

A government which can come within an inch of defeat because of accidents like these is sailing in dangerous waters.

Yet there is nothing Mr. Wil-

turned with a large. majority. People are evidently annoyed,

not only over Mr. Wilson's fail-

ure to carry out his promises

{not necessarily his fault) but | also over his inability to do any |

better than the Tories did, and im some ways to do worse.

Out of justice to Mr. Wilson, it has to be said that Britain's

and a minority government is in |

a poor position to deal with them. These problems are the accu-

| mulation of many years includ- |

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ine the long Conservative years, and the Tories might do no bet- le returned to office. Nevertheless, fortune is not smiling on the Labor Party at | the present time. It0ls hanging on by its fingernails, and it has no acceptable alternative but to try to hang on as logg 4s it can.

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