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THIS WEEK AND NEXT appears to have hardened Ha- noi's determination to carry on the fight. And so the American dilemma grows -- a nation pos- sessed of the ability to win a crushing military victory, but unable to end a conflic® which daily becomes more immoral and barbarous. hich aseablilenek:) dev The 'meddling' Canadian "That man in Ottawa!" The British and French were ! saying this of Lester B. Pearson 10 vears ago when as External | Affairs Minister, he led the United Nations in censuring the Anglo-French invasion of Suez. Today, the Americans, notably the short-tempered Lyndon B. Johnson, are similarly exasper- ated at Mr. Pearson's '"med- dling" in Vietnam and his point- ed criticisnis of U.S. policies on matters ranging from NATO to economic guidelines. While U.S.-Canadian relations are a long way from the hys- terical tenor of the last days of the Diefenbaker administration, events of recent weeks damp- ened the usual ardor between Ottawa and Washington. The current impasse really goes back to last December when Mr. Pearson, in a Phila- delphia speech, called on the U.S. to suspend bombing of North Vietnam. When word of the PM's remarks reached the White House, the American president hit the ceiling, taking the Pearson comment as further evidence of Canadian unreliabil- e ity. The fact that the U.S. did in- deed later temporarily suspend its bombing attacks cannot be credited to the Pearson speech, but the Canadian position, add- ed to appeals from other West- ern nations, helped nudge Washington toward the move. The Canadian PM next spoke to an influential group of Amer- icans when he addressed the U.S. Society of Newspaper Edi- tors in Montreal this spring. He ignored Vietnam and_ dealt mostly with economic matters. I thought his talk was reasoned and fair, but Americans in the audience reacted sharply. They generally regarded his com- ments as an unfair attack on U.S. economic interests. Canada next split with Wash- ington over the future of NATO, when the Canadian dele- gation to Brussels, led by Paul Martin, defied U.S. determina tion to launch counter-measures against France which is taking its troops out of the Atlantic al- liance. Due to Canadian insis- tence, the U.S. failed to win its way for a joint 14-nation ap- proach against the French, and the door was left open for fu- ture French participation, most probably on France's terms. Mr. Pearson followed up this diplomatic coup with a hard-hit- ting speech at Springfield, Illi- nois. He was outspokenly criti- cal of U.S. attempts to dominate NATO and equated the Ameri- can domination of the Atlantic alliance with the Soviet domina- tion of Eastern Europe's mili- tary apparatus. The significance of this posi- tion is that Moscow is having as much trouble keeping its War- saw Pact countries in line as the U.S. is having with Canada and France. Again, Mr. Pearson took on Washington over U.S. bombing of Hanoi. He publicly said only that he "regretted" the attack, but it was well known in Ottawa that the PM regarded the latest American escalation as _ sense- less. According to one Washington observer, Secretary of State Dean Rusk has been feeding President Johnson a wildly inac- curate assessment of why Cana- da has been behaving in such an unusually independent manner of late. It is said that Mr. Rusk be- lieves Canadian foreign policy is aimed at winning more Liberal party support in Quebec, and that this is why Canada took a pro-Fench attitude at the NATO foreign ministers' conference. Some Canadians have been heard to express the same opin- ion. The major international prob- lem remains Vietnam, despite the NATO side-show in Europe. Increased bombings have so far brought no significant re- duction in North Vietnamese support of the Viet Cong in the south. Each degree of escalation KIWANIS (Continued from page 7) He is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Terrace Bay of which he is a past president and with whom he has been concerned for almost fifteen years. Bob will attend the Kiwanis Convention to be held in Calgary on August 2Ist - 22nd. LADIES GOLF NEWS Last Tuesday's two-ball foursome was closely con- tested with a tie for first place. The toss went to Vic Timpano and Ida Duncan. It has thus been establish- ed who the golfer is in the Duncan family. Joe Adamo and Lois Shubaly also had an identical low score of 52, aided by a nice birdie on number six. Another twosome, the one most favoured to win, were doing very well with a beautiful 45 upon start- ing the last hole, but the pressure was too great and they took a drastic ten on it. All in all these mixed tournaments continue to hold the interest of the eager participants. Other winners were:- Low hidden holes: Bobby Adamo and Phyl Kelty; Walter MacMicking and Dot Koski; High hidden holes: Cy Brassard and Ivy Patti- son; Al Pattison and Jackie Turner; Consolation: Charlie Koski and Lavaughn West. The first attempt at "Ladies Day" last Thursday was quite encouraging with eleven ladies entering for the nine hold tournament. Marie Edmunds had low gross and Dot Koski low net. These tournaments will continue on Thursday afternoons. If any ladies can't get golf then, they may make up a threesome or foursome and play the single round at another time f The tournament captain, Marie Edmunds, should be contacted regarding this. CARD OF THANKS - My sincere thanks to those who sent cards, flowers and gifts while | was in hospital at the Lakehead. Your thoughtfulness was deeply appreciated. Mrs.Beverley Himes, Schreiber. Mr.and Mrs.Earl Welbourne of Schreiber are happy} to announce the arrival of their chosen son, Darren William, a brother for Danny.