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'V, r- 1 v- Aug. 11, 1967 Canadian Fe.de ration In Da nger By GEORGE SHERMAN IT? VT? 0 The ultimate in luxury and status year, the prime minister of Quebec has outdone his opponents in promoting, that "quiet revolution" among French Canadians they beganT He has become leader of the campaign for special status for Quebec, without being very specific about what it means. i In May he went to Paris and signed 10 separate agreements for cultural, educational and telecommunications cooperation between France and Quebec. De Gaulle rewarded him with a reception reserved for heads of state. Once in Quebec, de Gaulle, set out to enlarge this bridgehead of political friendship into outright alliance.

To enthusiastic crowds he spoke of his wholehearted esteem for "mon ami Johnson." Johnson jomed in up to a point. French Canadians must build their own elite, he said. They must become masters of their own house; they must take their destiny in their own hands. This identification with the legendary de Gaulle, he calculated, could only bring him dividends with the Quebec voters. But the old French leader's sudden emotional call In Montreal for "Free Quebec" and "liberation" of French Canada caught Johnson off guard.

He had never endorsed separatism. Yet suddenly there he was beyond vague oratory at the precipice. Were he to go over, the demand for secession from Canada would for the first time move from the extremist fringe to the respectable center of Canadian politics. But Johnson has not gone over at least yet. He has defended de Gaulle's right to speak out in Canada, but has not endorsed all his words.

He is under heavy pressure. The French anguage press in Quebec and such respected leaders as Jean Drapeau mayor of Montreal have rejected de Gaulle's intrusion in Canadian affairs. Johnson has only a six-man majority in me provincial legislature. The leader of the opposition Liberal party, Jean Lesage, has challenged him to declare whether he is a separatist and to hold an election on the issue. The danger of this brinkmanship is evident.

Emotion could get the better of reason. In practical, eveyday terms, Quebec cannot sever its links with Anglo-Saxon North America without courting economic catastrophe. It is dependent on the capital markets of New York and Toronto, not Paris. But should Johnson survey the political ground and decide that separatism a la de Gaulle means votes, he could well plunge over the precipice and transform the politics of Canada. Copyright, 1967, TM Washington Stir MADEIRA Funchal Becomes a Sister City The City of Oakland became a Sister City of Funchal, the capitol city of the Portuguese island of Madeira, yesterday.

Oakland also is a Sister City of Fukuoka, Japan. Higino Costa, a Madeira-born -E as tb ay investment broker, reported formally to the City Council that Oakland's invitation to Funchal to become a Sister City had been accepted en thusiastically by the Portuguese city. Costa, who headed a delegation of 60 Eastbay residents of Portuguese descent to Funchal earlier mis summer, said Jhe mayor of that city plans to visit Oakland next spring. He presented Mayor John H. Reading and the council an elaborately decorated document from Funchal officials accepting the Sister City invitation.

Reading promised Costa the city would roll out the red carpet for Funchal World Report WASHINGTON Prime i Minister Lester B. Pearson is struggling to Jteep his cool over Charles de Gaulle's challenge to the Canadian federa- "jtlon. recently confided that he didn't want to do "any more than I did, but I coiild not do less," in publicly the French president for jhis call for liberation of 6 French-speaking Canadians. His cabinet agreed the unity of "English" and Canada was at Angry English-speaking from British Oolum- break in diplomatic relations with France. John Dlefenbaker, leader of the opposition party, charged fr Second of Two Articles with softness and said his "two-nations" theory for Canada had invited de Gaulle to court French separatism.

"We have our pride -too," said a cabinet minister Ottawa. "We also have our bulldog element. If de Gaulle had come to Ottawa as planned, I really would have feared for his safety." Rut in OtwhM Prnvhwial Premier Daniel Johnson Pearson of yielding to "extremist elements" in publicly insulting de Gaulle and virtually inviting him to uynome. The upshot is a political stom! fiercer than any Pearson has faced during four uncertain years as prime minister. His talents of statesmanship are facing the supreme test By nature he is soft-spoken, easy-going, a born diplomat, compromiser who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1956 for bis work in liquidating the Suez war.

Pearson's policy Is clear. He deeply disagrees with the Gaullist thesis of a separatist "New France." On fee other hand, he believes just as deeply that de Gaulle or no de Gaulle Canada must strive to preserve a "special rela-twnship" with France. He is determined to mold a Canada which unites two cultures French and English in one political unit. During his term of office, much of it at the head of a minority government, Pearson has quietly worked to give practical content to this article of faith. On the federal he has moved to give French Canadians the equal status they demand.

Official Ottawa is the bilingual city the federal capital should be. Applicants for civil service 'jobs who speak both French and English are given preference. Bilingual officials receive a salary premium. Civil servants are encouraged, even paid, to go to Quebec for year to learn the French way of life, and language. Matters have slowly been working out between the federal and Quebec governments.

The spurt of violence from extreme separatist groups in Montreal and Quebec City in 1963-64 has faded away. Quebec is the only one of the 10 provinces today which runs its own rather extensive social security system, partly financed from federal funds. Some Canadian commentators seriously contend British Columbia offers an even greater challenge to the survival of the Canadian federation than Quebec. The province is isolated and communications, economics, iiitiwn nm1 uwMxrnnhv all 1 dictate ever closer ties with the North Americans of Wash-i and Oregon. Every rumble about secession or "special status" for Quebec produces an echo out on the Pacific coast.

The result is a political impasse. Innumerable commissions and conferences so far have failed to come up with any basic changes in the North America Act of 1867 the Canadian constitution. Disenchanted partisans inevitably blame Pearson for passive political leadership. Now de Gaulle has poisoned the atmosphere still more. No one knows Whether the dialogue and first small steps toward compromise between Ottawa and Quebec can continue.

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