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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL-8; 1958. **
DON IDDON'S DIARY
reports from pre-election CANADA
and finds mounting resentment against 'domination' by the nation next door
CANADA
GOOD NEIGHBOURS? NOT
I
Montreal.
SPENT three days in
Washington before com- ing to Canada. The capital was, in a muddle, reduced to chaos by eight inchos of snow..
At a party given by a friend, General Joseph Batley. I met Secretary of Detence Nell Mc- Elroy, but don't think he was amused when I said: "We should learn the secret of how the Tussians cope with their snow. let alone develop their rockets."
Mr McElroy is the bright hope of a dimm Administration rapidly turning midnight black.
As former head
of Proctor
and Gambles he has the old Goop salesinun's charms, and when I complimented
the
communications
for the Press
at Cocón Bragh
kot-test centre
1. .:
12.
Lous better than
the
Pentagon"
(The Befence 11.- partout)
S
he font few
months ago Mc- Lee has knocked cimir- Koraly,
ind Air
· Perea etiefst heada
Ingelher, nd ho
M
Whe
Ret
results,
Eisen-
hazer Guvel- has tagged most all other
frunts.
met -
agal about
the recession
the sumenit meet
ing confusion,
or
The President's slide into inertia,
bul about relations
the US and Canada,
They are bad.
Marathon
wrangle
HERE'
re
him up facilities
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JUST NOW
• Canadians have a list
of grievances against the Americans as long as the
St Lawrence is deep
PEARSON
A holiday from tax.
DIEFENBAKER
All-out Canadianism*
MOELROY
The salesman's charm
The White House and the the United States, with our They are carrying a huge State Department have neg netghbour, as bad as they are at chip on their shoulder labelled lected their northern welghbour this moment. Never have we "Made in the U.S.A.”
and when I ask why talked about our neighbour
In their AS Krussly,
awa clotlar-the am, fold: "We have plenty this Diefenbaker Government Canadian dollar is worth sight- of other things on our minds." has talked about them."
ly more than the American there Is Hercy pride, although noticed several I Love That is the core of the trouble.
in the reason
for the Canadian Because bad dollar's ascendancy stance of, this.
is due to the night train from overenpitalisation la Canada by The United States Bas taken Lot OIT
New York wearing an American American firms. hatl with me
two long-line closest ut neighbours, both mighty in re- sources and similar in ideals, Canada for granted for 100 long. und they are involved in an this nonchalaner, this as greatcoat, and
1 mathon wrangle
umption that where leads Canada
Fly PAN
AMERICAN
the dollar
America American luggage and ype Proud of will follow. is writer, I was mistaken for an Fitterly resented here in Mont- American.
in the Canadian capital, Ollawa. uzki throughout the country.
real,
Bent and
battered
The porier was coof: "There
can reporters here for election, You'd think there'd enough to report down there with all that misery."
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سيرية
U.S.A
There are slamping and shouting and out-
scores of other Irritations which the Canadians promising each, other."
There is the gentle, folksy inger over and argia over. The Mike Pearson, Nobel Prize- United States has obtained winner, famous for his know- "voluntary" ceilings on the ledge of foreign affairs, trying amount of petroleum which can to enlch up with the flamboyant be imported from Canada, Mr Diefenbaker In
it hog his all-out
warned of higher "Canadianism" and not doing tariffs on Canadian shipments very well in the attempt.
of lead and zinc-it has, accordin Mr. Pearson has currently ing to union officials here, pre- emight the headlines by pledg-" vented Canadian motor-car com- Ing a £35,000,000 tax hollday panies from Alling on order for inider which all Federa) per- 1.000 cars for China. ronal income taxes for most And over all the skirmishes Canadians will be eliminated and the main battle looms the power of the American guts --General Motors. General Electric, General Foods, Dupont, International Paper, Goodyear Tyres, etc.
for six weeks.
More pie
in the sky
I EXPECT the Prime Minister
to go one, or maybe two or three, beiter any moment,
THIS I BELIEVE
If Ike won't, Mac should Go To The Summit Alone
By Lord Beaverbrook
OU
Connie
association followed and our relations were friendly untit. in 1948, Russian efforts to dis- lodze the Western Fowers from any Berlin resulted in serious and watch-menacing threats of bloody.
UR people believe in "NO MORE WAR," now as always. Relations have become
Peace, at almost between Washington, which seems indifferent, and price, must be the Olawn,
strained
GO
war. which is boiling mud, word. And, of course, there that there Bre even sinister is a price to be paid for rid of the post bentury.
It all reminds me of Harry hints of a showdown over the
Hookin's advice to his close mutual defence of Canada and peace, now as always. friend. President
Roosvell: the US. and a revision of the "We will spend and spend and myriad pacts. elect and cleel."
There
Is plenty of motive force for these sweeping pro- mixes of ple in the sky.
"We are sovereign coun-
That is, in sunny form, tho
But can national animosities reconciled for the third time?
munition for the British Empire.
The price is anns and am- between Britula and Russia be
Under modern conditions arms
means airplanes, and ammuni- tion is the hydrogen bomb,
"a Government official told mc. "and we could do all sorts of things. We could for in- This is at occasion when the stance, confiscate the American necessity for, arms and am- munition is pressing to a Investments in this country. Not
degree. Indeed, the necamily that we would, but we could"
equals the need thai confronted 11 is possible, but not prob-
will the nation in 1938 and 1939. able, that the Canadians in
American- There is, however, one dil- every insist that
offers at forence known to us all. Thla owned corporation least a quarter of its stock to time the menace comes from Canadians.
Rusolo.
There are more than 500,000 unemployed in Canada- some Boy 700,000-and that is a large, and dangerous number country of around 17,000,000 population.
Whom to blame?
Why, the Americans course.
Yes, of course.
They can be obliterated and forgotten it whie policies aro, pursued
The first and foremost need is an Increase in trade between the All barriers 10 two countries; commerce should be swept away, forthwith.
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The motion prevalis in some quarters that a ban should ba And it is likely, whoever
Let no one suppose that wor maintained on some goods for of wins the election, that all is imminent. The minatory and sategic rensons,
This Ainerican-owned companies will menacing messages from Russia nonsense. "Why have to admit Canadians Into occasionally reflected by inten- I keep being asked: do Canadians buy over four part-ownership.
ія (a Canadian billing
billion
perate
of expressions
It depends on a complete mis- 201 conception of the Russian situa- In the tussle and tug-of-war, necessary humility spoken by the ton. Russia is as well equipped a thousand million) of Ameri- in this surge of resentment Western Powers should not be in strategic materials E any
while can goods
they, the against the United States, the cause for dismay. For history other country. Possibly she is Yanks, spend only a fraction, election is being fought out. teaches that national animosities better equipped, of that for our goods?"
nre swiftly reconciled.
As the moment there anger, even fury, over reports Isat Canadian officials have to
Wash-
can enter
bçer
These are
the leaders
►
the
the
*
This is the record of war and pence in one century.
It was just
ban on the export of strategic materials is foolish and out of date, excepting the actual weapons of war.
Commerce with Bussia must over hundred encouraged by the Govern years ago that Russia and Bri- ment and by the business com tain fought each other in the munity too, the men who go out Crimen Thereafter
60 years and seek' orders. of peace.
Archangel By 1910 was the Latliefront, where
against the British lines. · Then two decades of troubled though peaceful years.
sure are whole tears of Ameri- AD a slight tlft about the obtain permission from
price of my room. I said: Ington before they our Eighteen dollars Surely that's the Canadian Northland.
side there one be absurd. Even the Savoy or the
ON
dynamic Diefenbaker, Westbury, or Claridges In Lon- ton and Ottawa has not
The denial by both Washing Tory Prime Minister, the apostle of all-out Canidlanism, and on con, or the Waldorf and Pierre
very convincing with some the other the mild. erudite inishinash about it. belog cua Liberal who recently
assumed "to advise all military leadership of tomary
the party stations, even those operated by who specialises in international Russian troops were hurled the United States on Canadian affairs and, some say, territory, of impending V.I.P. nationalism.
world's most Canadian axis French-Canadian who was cut-
experienced airline
to
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and the
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'AMERICAN:
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Sonia New York, 15.5, 4., with Landard Zabitley
is liat and
And in the barber's, sisep the In New York don't charge that" The room clerk said; "It is will ting my hair wald: "The Ameri- tot $18, 21 ts $16-16 Canadian WH3 cans aren't going to try to
collars.
This is Canada, sir. they interfere with our election, are We have our own dollar, good not mul if it flimbut they? They have interfered Canadian dollars." it is no longer strong steel, with everything else."
not brip-ithough the
Canadians talk fore would
Canada was in the middle of The mood
cone of the most exciting and
dem tertiore amigos ever is mounting
fought in the Dominion, and
or nuage.
THIS
resentment
not inach restraint in methods HS is not quite true. But
there is bitter There are posters all over against American trade policies, inwn. "Get out the vote," and against alleged American dump- the handsome face of the Cat- ing of wheat and other produce
Prime Minister, Fervative
markels, world
against Jobu Diefenbaker,
the American companies galning do- rugged, rather boyish face of minance of Canada's key dus- the Liberal leader, Lecter Peor- frits, against glant America son, stare down from the hoard corporations holding Armly Ibps.
Ar
all-American control and nering the flowing. profits.
to
gar- |·
In the cocktail lounges of the Ritz Carllon, the Laurentian, - A mood of intense nationalism and in the grips Canada today and It is little wine shops and beer par- mounting.
the Mount Royal,
lours men are arguing.,
"Canuda for the Canadians”
is the slogan which leaps from
. I have to report that there the Maritimes, over the prairies, seems to be agreement on only and resounds in British Colum-f one thing no Canadian, whe-bla on the Pacific. ther of British, French, pr, other A postscript. "And the hell stock, is going to tolerate 811 with the Yanks, is often added, more American. "domination."
Occasionally spoken at political
This anti-American, feeling, rallies and murmured in private by the lieutenants, of the poll- instraces, ticpl lenders.
Justined
Se some could get out of hand.
Canadians have a list of Paul Mariin, former Liberal grievances against the Ameri Health Minister, says boldly: cans as long as the St. Law "Never wore our relations with rence is deep.
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And sometimes this informa- I will tell you about the two I thought, dear me, I will have ton 18 forwarded by the men, the election campalga to tread carefully on this trip. American authorities in Wash
Very few of the campaigners ington.
and their followers are doing How the axis creaks the same thing. They
are groans
Itselt, the splinter parties, and the voters in my next dispatch, and which will be from the capital,
Ollawa.
I not meet Krushcher... alone....
SPRING' IN THE AIR
At the outbreak of world war in 1939 it seemed likely that Russia would join with our enemies. Instead we sup- ported her when Germany at- Lacked
1041.
close
Konden Avareta dereins
Negollallons at the summit, · so called, should be conducted without delay. That I bellayo to be the almost LOSSNITTE
with of the British raco." fils true that our companion United States of
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and ally, the America, is delermined to escape Burnin'i negotiation, from believing that Russla's intentiona are not serious and her protesla- tions are insincere.
There is, too, a further com- plication in the situation. The alliance between the United States and Western Germany la valued by the Americans above all other associationta,
The West Germans, however, are irreconcilably opposed to any conference which excludes from its discussions n reunion of East and West Germany.
And the Russians will not taka meeting part in any summit where this tople is ruled,
The British Empire should not be Influenced in 11 decisions by German foreign policy or German desires.
*
Remember the Inst wär 'was fought to break up Germany. We succeeded. Now
we are naked to risk war again, so that' Germany may be reunited;
Certainly, Germany's claim for reunion should not be a barrier to talks between Britain and Russia.
The Prime Kinister · may persuado the Amerionna President to travel with hững tá a mreting place with the men of Moscow. But if the "Amori-
can Government resists, them Mr Macmillan should go - East and speak for the, British Empire.
If, as a' result of negotiationst with Krushobov, Mr Macmillan brings home the bacon, then he can ask Presliant Bisenhower to alt down with him and tako park In the feast.
* Should he moneod, is his animalom ho, will have wolk „otérusă "fame and glory,