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The Annual Christmas Rush By CORDON DEW Allot The Journal to tradition. Parliament (tart into what it hopes it ita last week today with, a crammed schedule and authority for extended hours. Between sitting the extra hours and rushing through business while at it, members of the Commons should be able to arrive at their -homes next weekend looking as though they need the tended holiday they will be taking. In order 'to complete one session before the end of the year, Prima Minister Pearson some, weeks ago dropped plana to proceed with such major items as the Canada Pension Plan." Other matters keep crop-Dine' un. however, and there remains on the order paper sufficient work to keep tha Commons going for weeks at the pace kept in the earlier part of the session.

"THERE probably is reasonable degree of agreement on the need to establish the office of representation commissioner, but a lot more members would like to" speak on the subject of redistribution than will get a chance this week. The customs tariff legislation- to be dealt with could be a point of major political contention any other week. The same could be said of the bill respecting the national centennial and that concerning the world' fair. But all will get short shrift as members keep their eyes simultaneously on the clock and the calendar. There are other bills the government would like to see passed.

State Secretary Pic-' kersgill, government House leader, told the Commons on Saturday. And the estimates are far front being completed. Only four departments have been cleared, although supply motions have been passed allowing all departments to spend ten-twelfths of their estimates for the current fiscal yeat It appears, however, that all Kn r.j the wrangling and are ready to speed through this business and forget about it, now that Christmas is almost here. J-JEARKEN, for instance, to the lines of Mr. PickersgiU which drew a loud laugh in the Commonj Saturday: "On Wednesday, as I indicated last night, it is our thought that we should start with the eagerly anticipated estimates of the Postmaster General.

"About an hour later, when (hey have been completed Nato N-Navy 'Unrealistic' By HANSON WrBALDWIN Military Editor (Cl lts Trt Tim Nm tmUt NEW YORK Alt Integrat-ed NATO navy, with ships by multi national crewsvpresents so many "formidable problems" as to an unrealistic concept. British Rear Admiral G. T. S. Gray, senior naval member of the directing staff of sart'Bdgretiali in London, itemizes the diffi culties and dismisses the concept as impractical in "Naval Review 1964," the tative annual of the U.S.

Naval Institute, whjch is published today, Gray's discussion of "a NATO European navy: how practical?" was regarded by those who have seen advance volumes of the Naval Review as particularly because of its authorship and the forum in which It was presented. MIXED CREW Though the article deals with the problems of an integrated NATO navy 4n general it relers to, and is plainly directed at, th proposal still pending to estabitsh a multilateral sea-based dt-terrent force of surface ships with Polaris, missiles, with each ship manned by a mix-ed NATO crew. Washington's support for the mixed-manned fleet is based upon the belief that it is the only practical way to provide Europ with some share in a nuclear deterrent force. Not only laughs, but no dissension whatsoever, greeted this casual tossing-ofl of tens of millions of dollars. gWlFTLY as they may work, however, the Parliamentarians are going to be going at a hectic pace all week.

A short time ago Mr. Pickersgill confided that the HIS PRODUCT IDEOLOGICAL been showing signs of resent- ment at being used as pawns 4-tbe struggle Also, most Chines diplomats, commaxciat-agents and other prynnl Brt ill.prermred tor assignments in Africa. Most DE GAULLE CARRIES BIG STICK Monday. December ib.om THE OTTAWA JOURNAL SOLUTION EXPECTED SOON Hellyer said he did not ex Salesman Chou on African Safari By ANDREW BOROWIEC TUNIS. Tunisia (AP) For the last six yearsTCninese Communist diplomats and agents have patiently penetrated tha African continent.

Their progress has not been spectacular, but 1 a y( have aroused African curiosity about China and planted a network of diplomatic, trade and propaganda missions. For the next two months. Premier Chou En-lal will personally assess th penetration effort and establish direct con tact with a number of African leaders. Some of them already are receptiv to Chinese ideo logy. Chou arrived hrtJairoi Sunday to visit President Nasser.

He will also visit Algeria, Morocco. Mali, Ghana, Somalia and perhaps former British East Africa. Western diplomats consider the visit a public relations ven ture. African oflicials attach great deal of significance to it INCREASE MISSIONS in 19W. Red Lhma had not a single diplomatic mission in Af rica.

Today, jl. has 13 plus thousands of official andujtl official envoys criss crossing the continent. Chinese radio beams I hour of broadcasu. daily, specially tailored to Africa. Books, pamphlets and films are distributed by the Chinese in moat of Africa's, independent nations.

China participates in most African trade fairs and has given long-term loans- and di reel subsidies to half-a-dozen nations. Most activity has been painstaking eltort to penetrate political parties, youth organize lions and labor groups. economic progress is a main gambit used by the Chinese propaganda drive in Africa However, the Chinese also hav a number of drawbacks. SOME RESENTMENT One is Chinese subordination of everything to their ideologic cal conflict withhe Soviet Union. Much of fts literature distributed in Africa deals with 'this dispute, and Africans have In particular it is intended to provide Germany with the form if not the substance of control over strategic nuclear weapons.

It is based upon the concept of an integrated international force In sharp distinction to President de Gaulle's polity of 'the co-ordination of independent national forces. Gray's position, regarded as flection of Britain's position Tibottt the multilateral sea- based also reflects the point of view of many U.S. naval officers, even though the U.S. navy it officially committed to the project. IS IT FEASIBLE? "Is it a feasible proposition," Gray asks, "to consider, for example, Belgian, Norwegian, and Italian sail-- ors working under a French commanding officer whose only foreign language ability is English? Try this aboard a nuclear powered submarine." The author stresses that "language, pay, discipline, career structures, recruiting of personnel, assignment to duty, national differences in fgpcLjeiigion, habits, and out- look, and many other factors ar formidable problems.

"National differences in food temperaments, habits and outlook would place an intolerable burden on the shoulders of administrative authority in deciding how ships were to be run in an integrated navy government deadline for the session had been tentatively set for a.m., December 21. This may well work out to be true, but what i Chief Justice Taschereau going to say at being called from home at that hour to give Royal Assent to a batch of legislation? After all, it's'1 hardly his fault. Stickler in Europe French By RICHARD PURSER Journal London Bureau LONDON It is 11 months since President de Gaulle, "in his historic press conference of Jan. 14, halted the drive toward European unity by barring Britain from tha European Economic, Community. The EEC.

or Common Mar ket, has sine ceased to be the chief International talking point in Britain and the Commonwealth. But the questions so hotly debated less than a -year ago remain as Important' even They are the questions of European economic and political unity, of the' treeing of world trade, and of integration of the poorer countries Into the world trading struc Major -Commonwealth-Stand Abandoned By CARMAN CUMMING UNITED NATIONS (CP) -j Acting heavy pressure. Canada has given up on an attempt to preserve a formal Commonwealth role in the United Nations. the initiative was dropped Saturday only after African Commonwealth members ap pealed publicly to Canada not to press for a test case" vote on the issue. They intimated the Canadian campaign was working against their own attempts to add Afro- Asian member to UN bodies! Authoritative sources said the development was a major one in terms of the Commonwealth role in the UN and in terms of Canadian diplomatic strategy at the UN.

But they stressed that the Commonwealth countries will continue to meet end will continue to exert influence as a group. WANTED, SEAT OUT Saturday's developments grew out of Alro-Asian and Latin American attempts to' elimin- ate-. reiorming wo u-uauon aciumy Council. The seat had been provided for in the 194S "gentlemen's agreement" that allocated two of the six non-permanent seats to Latin America, one to East fcurope. one to west Europe, one to the Middle East and one to the Commonwealth.

This agreement is expected to stand for a at least, since the Soviet Union has indicated it will veto expansion until Com munist China is seated on the council. But the debate last week showed clearly that little sentiment remains for retention of the Commonwealth seat. The Afro-Asians and Latin Americans want a new division of seats on a purely geographic basis. Canada. Australia and New Zealand are to be classed under "West.

European and oth ers." The Canadian delegation, with the backing of Australia and New Zealand, took the lead in a campaign, to prevent th loss of the seat. The test ease was fought but on a relatively minor Afro-A- Taking Our Bombers Elsewhere? By JOSEPH MacSWEEN PARIS (CP) Defence Minister, Hellyer confirmed Sunday dial the problem of Canada's nuclear bombers in Franca fi coming under discussion, and he hopes a solution will not be long delayed. Hellyer made his comment at a press conference following a Saturday statement by Dirk Stikker. NATO jiec.reiary an tral, that it might be wise to base th Canadian bombers "somewhere eke" If President de Gaulle refuses RTalTdw their warheads to be stored an French territory. have no dailv contact with Af- rican life.

Few dara to talk to of Fttrnpean rrsideau-wbostaLufltia4ridJdtist parties are Surpluses control Africa economic struc- ture. Another drawback, has been that roost Communist parties on ture in a way that benefits them. CRUNCH' SESSIONS Last, at about this time, as the' EEC's negotiations with Britain were progressing toward their shattering climax, a series of "crunch" sessions, as they were termed, were going on In Brussels, the EEC's headquarters. Now another series of "crunch" sessions is aoing on. It may lack the aura of high drama of the events last December and January, but It is no less important to th future of the West.

The last session of this series, at least as so far scheduled, runs through this week- It is a "Marathon" ses-sion of th EEC's council of ministers. ian resolution to add three seats to the General Assembly's 1S-member general committee, or steering committee. This resolution also made no provision for a Commonwealth seat, as had been stipulated in the past. Canada moved an amendment to reinstate it, with the co-sponsorship of Australia and New Zealand. Observers said the amend ment was largely pointed out that when Kenya and Zanzibar are ad mitted today.

II of 113 UN members ar froratrj.Cmmon-wealth and one Ts certain to be represented on the general com mittee each year. But the fate of the Canadian amendment was watched with interest as a sign of whether support could be found to pre-. serve Commonwealth represen- tation on the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council. REFUSED WITHDRAWAL During last week the Cana dians were urged privately to withdraw the amendment, but they refused to do so. it Saturday, however, rfrer appeals from Ghana, Nigeria and several other countries on the floor of the assembly's special political committee.

Ghana's Alex Quaison-Sackey made a direct appeal to the Ca nadian, Australian and New Zealand delegations not to press the a vote. He indi cated "That it might jeopardize Afro Asian chances of getting better representation. The Canadian delegation In withdrawing-the, amendment. watunderstood have felt that forced a vote might have placed embarrassing pres sures on some of the African Commonwealth members and that this might have damaged the Commonwealth. SPKI1LIST III CONTACT UKB Si' OPTICIAN 97 METCALFE 2M-4288 Agriculture Hellyer gave no da-tails on the i consultations, but he is scried-j uledtq 'tn French De-lence Minister Pierre Mesmer Tuesday.

He said that within the range options there were "quite few solutions or accommoda tions" possible. But he added ihit he saw no indication the French would allow storage of nuclear warheads not subject to their veto. In a separate interview. External Affairs Minister Martin declined to comment on the statement by Stikker, whose frank repor nessxsurprjsed Canadian reporters. 'the continent are oriented to- ward Moscow.

But some Com showing increasing interest in the Chinese doctrine, consider- ing it mora dynamic, more revolutionary, more in keeping The council Is composed of cabinet ministers of the six EEC member countries, and it alone is superior to the permanent EEC commission of international civil servants resident in Brussels. This lengthy council session (most such sessions last only two or three day) is supposed to settle the major differences between EEC countries. II it does not succeed-and succeu is a wide open question there may be grave and incalculable consequences both for European unity and the Kennedy round of tariff cutting negotiations scheduled to beg.n next Spring. The economic details of the EEC crisis are complex and subtle, but underlying them is the political issue. In this, as in the defence controversy also facing the West; the chief actor is de Gaulle.

He is no fr.end of the EEC. He iriHerite'd ,1. lid is mil in- -terested in the diminishing of national sovereignty favored by "father of Europe" Jean Monnet. He believes in a Europe of nation-states led by a proud France. The EEC concept is of interest to him only insofar as it benefits France, or at least his concept of France.

Under the Treaty of Rome, Common Market tariff structure is based on the achievement by 1970 elimination of tariffs between member countries and establishment of a common external tariff. WORLD TRADE To EEC liberals, notably Chancellor Erhard and Foreign Minister Schroder of Germany, the external tariff policy must be conducive to world trade. To de Gaulle, however, it must be conducive to French trade. In particular, it must be conducive to French agri cultural trade. And in spue Of huge strides by French farmers in the better endowed areas, a vast and 'poli at.

to i GILBEFS 1 "The finest 5 year old Canadian Whisky this country has ever tasted" pect the question to be raised NATO ministerial meetings. Broad political questions, in cluding east-west relations, are be dealt with by the ministers. STRENGTH UNCHANGED One diplomatic source said the question of Canada's squadrons in France is not a matter for the NATO talks since it in-Ivolves no contemplated change in Canada's NATO contribution. He also said Canada's CF- 1104S are the onlv ones In NATO clear arms all others are (equipped with conventional with Africa's needs. "Whether wa like it or not.

Peking hjuvjLJilrong replacing Russia as the revo- lutionary attraction -in Africa said one pro-Western African diplomat. tically important peasantry still exists. Despite low efficiency in the peasant sector of, France's farm economy, land is plentiful and soil is good. Production surpluses are likely to rise with increasing gains in agricultural technology. France needs markets: The Gaullist desire to make France the breadbasket of Europe conflicts with the desire of German leaders to maintain a widely international approach to agricul tural imports, so as not to jeopardize industrial exports.

The Americans have con tinued to make it clear that farm trade must be included in forthcoming tariff negotiations. COMMON FRONT If tha EEC is to partici pate usefully in the Kennedy round, it must settle its dif ferences on agriculture and present a common front in the negotiations. The French want inira EEC I agricultural trade freedom with levies against the out side world, and low food prices to check high-cost (i.e German) production. De Gaulle has called for speedy agreement on beef rice and dairy regulations favoring increased French sales in the EEC, fixing of cereal prices to favor Franco- (ierman sales, and subsidy by Germany (through the import- levy financed EEC agricul tural fund) of French wheat exports to the outside. Without these ga.ns for France, de Gaulle has warn ed the other Five need not expect a common approach to the Kennedy round.

He has even warned, rather ambigu ously, that if France's needs are not met by the EEC by December, the EEC may cease to be of interest to France. These warnings and the exorable approach of the Ken nedy round give urgency to the EEC Council's efforts to settle thee issues by this Saturday. tney arms as well. Both Hellyer and Stikker said knew of no possibility that BIRKS FOR FINE WATCHES fyi I 4J- 111 BIRKS offer a wide assortment of diamond 5et watches tom $49.75 up. ETERNB-MRTie Classic design in a truly dependable timepiece, featuring the world famous ETERNA-MAT1C movement with a ball-bearing rotor.

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