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DIEFENBAKER

way

the man

way out

THE CHINA MAIL,

TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1958.

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HOW THE SMART ALECS OF WHITEHALL

UNDERESTIMATED HIS BURNING FAITH

JOHN DIEFEN -

by DEREK MARKS

But the man has the some the Prime Minister is by far the Character Ja the In dominant compelling incandescence

C: binel. The rest of the Mini- not come

BAKER, the man private conversation, Mert him ters that I met did with a burning faith in in the qualet of his record-nor Canada and the Com- building, or in a London hut.). monwealth, has been Wherever he is the mostage is the same, the blue, slightly swept back into office by bulging eyes flash with the same the biggest majority in intensity." his country's history.

office in Ottawic's government near him in stature,

1 believe that in this grey- the Faired, 82-year-old lies

The man who cume 10 London just 10 mnths ngo, within a few days of gaining office as the head of a minority Government, is most secure today the Prime Minister in the Commonwealth.

Last

Diefenbaker was held to have triumphed merely by displacing the Liberals after they had been in office for 22 years, though not himself getting a cleur majority. Now he has practically annihilated that once all-powerful party.

YURF

Transformed

NE

llow has the Canadian political scene been

transformed dramatically

This man lives as though with a inassive spring colled inside him, Gestures jerk his crms and shoulders. Words spill from his wide hips.

When he went to Loniten last June the cmart Alees of Whitey hall underestimated him. They were necustomed to the polkiad the Long-in-ofler pauses of Liberals. The passion of the Prairie lawyer from Saskatche- wun seemed almost seriligious The man retually had faith in the Commonwealth.

Tremendous

He came out with his vision- ary plan for switening con millions

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potential to lead not only his own country, but the whole Commonwealth.

Increasingly. that is exactly what he has been doing. He was way

other Cut in front of Western safesmen in calling for Russian-even ka with the SJResting that they should be held h: Canada.

A few weeks ago Dicferbaker told the electors of Halfax, Nova Scotia, that the Canadiana "are 16 million people sitting on

of the world's greatest trensure house of undeveloped resources."

The

Is aim and policy is to sce that Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth share in Aladdin's Cave that lies beneath the lakes and the furests.

That is how

K Dressing Reci

Los Easter

Modes

"Here comes somebody now.

Ye gods-I hope THAT isn't mine.”

WORLD BEATERS!

by TREVOR EVANS

NOT

The rivals

exported 104 million square

now which did not exist before how cotton has become recog yards of wool cloth last year the war, The Italians, for in- nised as a fashion fabric." And more than me were compared with 90,000,000 in stance. They have been rush around 1838. Yet there are only 200,000 Ing cheaper quality stuff to this 1,000 patterns in all shades and employed in the industry now country which has been damag- colours. Batley. compared with 224,000 in 1939. ing the trade in Dewsbury and

ow

This, he pointed out, proved much more effelent the Industry had become. And people

bonstert

ke many more

50

around Bradford were to do later in the day, he

A danger

about the super-deft introduc- DUT on the other hand York- ed by Air Marshal Geoffreyshire has manfully met and Ambler, and the auto-leveller solved

another major postwar devised by Mr George F. Ruper problem. Earning dollars. There I gather- is some, resentment, ed, among the wont people.

the are

These two inventors modern Yorkshire heroes.

TOT far short of a million men and women help in one way or another to clothe us. Most of them werk dollars worth cit

"I don't intend to meke com- in Lancashire and Yorkshire making the materials. And Canada's trade from the United

petition for Canadian Industry.

in the old days it was fairly easy and correct to say that States to Britain. It was a tre

to provide

while Yorkshire was concerned exclusively with woollen But he was Lut 1 de intend monious gesture.

dollars into The additional

and worsted goods, Lancashire stuck rigidly to cotton. repaid with what was probably United Kingdom as one of our

tricks ne of the shrublest

Thea That picture has become Bradford and Leeds was the played by the British Govern best prospective markets.

Commonwealth she in turn will be able to bring

Not that they are prompt rentader of Yorkshire's. ment 2

back into existence the tradlblurred. Prime Minister.

tional export market that wethouting this from the house self-reliange,

lops in the North. The truth is have nearly lost."

old textile Industries that the he explained it a few days ago.

are being saved by the newest of man's ingenuity- There

of products question 130

being and man-made fibres. That will be Diefenbaker

is simply pro- challenged by Yorkshire and American.

pro-Common-Lancashire. The protest will be York- more vociferous from

me with the latest statistics induced 440 million square yards played by wool in exports these Condien

because shire,

the wool folk prové

his industry of wool clath 20 years ago, last the United States, ideola he may well succerd

million and unspectacularly wool that they was holding its own. In some year's output was 393 wealth. With in rekindling the whole concept

is doing better tun square yards.

been among Britain's top dollar before the war. It produced of Commonwealth. For certain are well able to stand on their ways it

wool rners for the last 10 years. he will have a good try.

There is a danger that may have been tou successful. And every time there is a whis- per

from Washington thal American tariffs may be raised,

Whitehall offered to set up en Free Trade Anglo-Canadian in less than a year?

Ares-well knowing that nothing

It was al The answer lies in the could bring greater embarrass

ment to Diefenbaker.

whole person and personality of at moment-when the

He Cunadian Press let out an angry Diefenbaker himself. has brought inspiration and low-that Diefenbaker calmly hope to the Canadian people showed bla greatness. by offering a leadership based on faith, and convic- tion.

Aild he wants Canada to give the same sort of leader- ship to the rest of the Commonwealth. His

cam-

paign slogan was simply "Let's make Canada splen. din* and he sees the splendour of Canada eu- hancing the glory of the Commonwealth.

This wr the message Parvind zercs Coned with that

He made it clear that he was going ahead with his plans to expand trade. He made it clear that the free trade Ides was not 03. And he announced that he 10 world send a trade mission Britain. Diefenbaker was not.. his polley by deterred from Whitehall's shabby behaviour.

Vindicated

All that happened lari autumn. Diefenbaker carried on with his minority government, daring the Gener! Liberals to force

dare Election.. Tacy did not Then, when he judged the time

Diefenbaker called right,

tervent ratory that drags in the General Election and he has voters. In his speaking there is

much of the Ey prescher, much"-

'been actonishingly vindicated.

of the prosecuting attorney. la When in Ottawa they talk him is blended the Baptist and about the Diefenbaker Govern- ulent they mean just that. For

the lawyer.

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Indeed, one of the most re-

freshing features of my visit to

The world has shrunk for

fac Lancashire cutton, with tories going up in Australia, in India, In Africa, and elsewhere. But with

Lancashire good money in them.

The talk all the time was about quality. That is Lanea- shire's hope and confidence.

In this showroom found the at- essence of the Lancashire titude. And It is love for catton,

So perhaps it was a little un- They feel that Britain has t with the recognition that NE of the top experts in the charitable of me to moniton sufficiently recognized the part

wool trade almost "blinded" that whereas Yorkshire pro-

ONE

how well

7,000,000 lb. more worsted yarn

That made the Yorkshireman last year than in 1038, and it wrathful. There were difficulties

You use a mile

a year of

it-EVERYONE DOES

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the newer fabrics have come both to spur "the old lady" to find than anyone Consistently greater beauties

possessed. has ever suspected she

and to help her to create new high standards for textiles.

Same men

there is a shudder in Bradford, Manchester today they are saying that we are only-on the fringe of finding new quall- There are other misgivings. dies and uses for the mixtures, Yorkshire is in a mixed mind cotton and the whole range of about this European free trade synthetic fibres. And what they Idea. It would like more evid say in Manchester today

the

world will understand tomorrow,

ence that the Government would lop cheaper Continentni goods

Remember, It will be the fooding this market. But York- same Lancashire mills and the shire always adds that on sn m୯ Lancashire operatives. qualliy_it_hag nothing to fear who will be producing this new from Europeor anywhere else. stuff.

IT is used by South mile a year per head of popu- wallet. Collon waste goes into spun, wound, single-twisted, re-too

The

wound.

Only very

on

to

occasionally did And grave, balanced Sir they talk about "mixtures" in Alfred Roberts, the texile union me that his Yorkshire. The significance and chief, reminded

people are now engaged importance of this dia not

work-study and committed strike me for several days. For shift-working in mille which "mixture" is the introduction bring themselves up to date. of man-made fibres into wool.

Sir Altred is proud that That really Lu Manchester

no major Jap-formed, combed,

strike for more than 30 years. post-story, and obviously Yorkshire texilles have had comber-drawn, high-draft-roved, did not feel called upon to say The unions have taken the line much about it. Indeed, that what could be paid out In warp-when I announced that I was wages depended on what came to see in from the sales of cotton. So Jution, with the staggering the making of the paper.

warp-mercerised, pirn-going Into Lancashire American Indians to anal total for Britain of 81,800

tale of woe is not yet Rassed,

wound, and cheese-dyed. how other textiles were doing, they have always been cautious million yards,

Only then of which about ended. Sport would be lacopa-

is it machine- there were obvious signs of dis- in their demands, And In cot- cure rheumatism. It is sixths is used by industry, citated. Footballs would coine

Yorkshire wool de ton now their wages are three does not want to be and a half to four times what used by Cuban peasants

The untual figure for world part. It is the thread-seaming wound into reels, spools, hanks, approval.

skeins, balls, tubes, cops, cones, finitely so fantastle, fust

or a cricket ball that gives the

vicones pixits, cocoons or kind-lumped with Lancashire. And they were before the wor. And, to prevent styes in the consumption is

bowler his "swing"-ankl

I now think this is partly paradoxically. In some cotton districts there a an actual eye. It is used by the pantly, that no one has yet thread is its core, too, South spools.

worked it out exactly. To that Arabians would no doubt be

shortage of workers. Dutch to catch mice. total, whatever it is must be bitten by snakes, for they use ingenious

It is used by Hindus to ded the mount consuined by thread tied round the left leg torture. The synthetic threads

below the knee is charm are no luckier.

A ward off evil spirits. It is used by Icelandic house wives to cut hard-boiled eggs. It is used by Indians to fly kites.

the South American Indians, who chew skelns of cotton threed as a cure for theumatism, guinst stake bites.

Thread is now so interwoven

Unstitched

Gossamer

воле makes

Linen thread has its own Lancashire's fault.

forms of machine

crocheting, for embroidery. You machines.

can

buy thread as thin as gossamer (well, nearly) made

out of Terylene, and thread as thick as string, in every conceiv able Intermediate toughness, and shade.

Types

No gloom

up

the

New ideas

viscose, How

the most exciting developments of all aro already being tufted carpets, made both in Yorkalire...and

But for real enthusiasm about Terylene goes

the future. Mr Phillip Rowe 19 through brain-washing process

the man. He is the spokesman to make it forget ils natural

of the British Man-made Fibres instinct, which is to pucker up again once it has been stretched.THE cotton men havo rather Association. He rattled off the

British

plonters in "Wolf" shouting into our lives that if, by zome

Terylene. So it goes on. In spite of the been freak of chemical disturbance,

trade setback, the pretty often. presen!

There was that acetate, and Every spot of thread in use It was ured by Edison in his today were to dissolve, evapor- HERE is an almost endless thread manufacturers of Britain recent outburst by the defeated British scientists produced tyre- cord yarns which have now at Rochdale, variety of thread. One firm of are still working to produce Tory candidate first successful electrle light ate, and vanish without trace

that the cotton revolutionised tyre-making. muru newer and better threads, There who alleged bulb. It was used by Stewart the results would be alarming. cotton sewing thread

more are

blended threads now-manufacturers had ganged In the first Granger as o temporary engage-

place, all your facturers cicthes would fall to bits. Your than 1,100 different types of cotton sheathed synthetics,gainst him in protest at

refusal to in- ment ring for Jean Simmons.

where the cotton protects the Government's

food That has given it away. You shoes would disintegrate (the thread. 18.00 have guessed it now. It's thread. uppers are sewn with colton

There is thread for sewing, tough synthelle from the flerce crease tarlits against the

of the Bitching of cotton goods from the East. Ever since that fellow Theseus thread, the soles with linen for darning, for knitting, for friction

And 200 mills have closed down 18.00

from Athens sneaked into the thread).

during the last two years, From Two of a distanco it looked black in 18.00 original labyrinth in Crete to Minotaur monster, the

Lancashiro, 25.00 kil

paying cut a spool of thread ns 35.00 he went along to help him find

But what a refreshing time 1. Lancashire, and a whole new ALL bell-driven machinery in 7.50 his way out of it again, thread

thickness, THERE are special rot-proofed had among the cotten leaders, range of jeans and overalls, has been considered pretly vital factories would come to an

threads to help the tropical There is nothing downhearted Tufted carpels made from 7.50 stul.

abrupt hall. Motor-cars would Synthetic threads DFC now housewife with her darning, about them. They have more rayon are expected at 5. Not quite so long ago, as everheat and stop when the foos coming into their own-tougher water-prooted threads for the courage, then problems,

than cotton, aner than linen, making of fishing nets, dre- that says plenty. 5.00 legend has it. Henry if lost his stopped working. girl friend, Fair favourite

Surgeons would be gravely but less resistant to the great proofed thrends for the manu-

It is astonishing how many 10.00 Rosamund, when the Queen's hampered in the operating heat generated by the high facture of gas-mantles; threads For in the old days, when mixtures are already produced,

Industrial 4.50 side-idlck used the thread tech- theatres, where synthetle thread speed

stitching to combat all the various they worked 10 hours in the especially in the popular priced elements ati over the world. mills, they spun and weaved for men's sults from Yorkshire, and 1.00 nique to penetrate the maze at is widely used for tying Incisions, machines.

dresson Britain In two hours before in women's summor Woodstock, where Rosemund In our homes, the electrical The manufacture of all those

In Scotland alone, 20

per breakfast and for the rest of the from Lancashire, 1.50 had been hidden by the King, wiring system would be en- different threads presents cent of all manufactured thread world the rest of the day.

dangered, for thread is used own crop of diMculties,

And whonover reinforce the insulation.

Each blossom of cotton (which is sold overseas, and 100,000,000 But today If by-products were similarly is only there to protect the miles of thread are made each opposite, with less than 30 per mbres can bring now qualiiles affected, the articles made from colton seeds from damage) pro- yuming it did not melt on the cent of output being exported, to those old velcrons, wool and then wool and cotton And once there were 100,000 in cotton, the 40 per cent cotton "waste" duces on average about three

cotton and now there are bere benellt too. But between way. 5.00 THESE Bro, perhaps, extreme marketed by the thread-making- inches of thread.

Yes, there is rather mere to ty 200,000.

That is the brightest, hope for examples of life and death. mills would also disappear--and the raw material in, say, Egypt 35.00 Nobody bothers to make up their number would surprize or Sudan and the Anished the humble spool of domestle

Bhish But when Mr Roger Lee British textile trades, Happily, product in the thread-making six-cond 300-yard soft fairy tales about thread, any you.

round the show- so many in the North realiso Carpels and curtains would firms of Britain there iles white No. 40 than meets the escorted me more becauso nowadays we take

of the Calico Print it, which is why those old xtval

up there it so much for granted.

unravel. Mattresses would give grueiling course of lengthy and incurious eye.

Without thread ong con-ers Association In Manchester, counties In Great Britain alone, the a sigh and expire, Worst dis- extremely violent treatment.

The cation has to be blended, cludes, the very scams of the he and his executives were among the most exciting places.. average consumption of thread aster of all; your banknotes,

actually saying, "It's wonderful in all Britain. HOW round thank would come to pieces in your acutched, cardod, pre-combed, world would come apart.

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