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One of the more sinister man*
• ifestations of the contemporary
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can misinterpret freedom for 11.
cence. This colossus : covers
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ems fain, -radio;'1TV and the wire
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•',, services•any dr all ofwh ch may
be used to convey too a' huge
!public the truth, the half.truth'••or
the big lie.
The press, • at least, can al.
ways plead it printed what the
wire, services gave it on that
particular day. Today it knows
better and enters an apology to
all Concerned:
Radio and -TV, since they leave`
no permanent record, can sim.
ilarly renege, either in the press ,
or on the screen next day.
The -book, the- May and the
. ;inen a film have more Pennell.
' ent records, though they are all
subject to varying degrees of
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shi'Perhaps'this heeds s
lesafor the book, the plays
for little ,,short oa libest
can melee it retract its misre.
presentation. Even then the harm•
is 'do:ke. If it's in print it must
be right. But the.booc can most
easily present a coznb'ination of
truth, or its S oppression and even.
the .suggosteen of falsehood, after
which the author „can plead 'good
faith' from his or her congiom•
•oration. The power of legend and
myth is old 'news.' What is new`
is' the ease and speed with which
the • engines of p;iblicity can
irripese it.
EMOTIONAL BINGE
For the past eight years we
have been plagued by a series of
legal processes, all emanating
from the murder of Lynne Harper
at Clinton oil 3utme-- 9th -1959;:
After an abortive appeal, a 'fan.
tastically emotional binge' was
engendered by a .book, Which con.
tended there Was a miscarriage
of justice and that any witness, -
clue or fact which did not support
the prisoner's guilt had been
overlooked or ignored.
Now, after the, teial judge, the
jury, the Ontario Court of Appeal
and the Supreme Court of Canada
have all reached the same con.
elusion; after the'ablest defence
has been accorded; the leaders
of the Opposition and the N.D.P.
both ask for immediate parole
of the prisoner. The author of
the book says her assessment of
the prisoner and his trial have
not been changed. A Liberal M,P.
,Personals-
Mrs.
Personals-
asks foraRoYal
Co
rai s
n to
!Nitre into the �aattt �e-fte
community .in 1959, to determine
whether local feelings had pre.
judiced the trial, while the 'globe
and Mall' finds- that "an inter.
nified'fexamination of our whole
process of law" is reque.red. It
iscrystal' clear . that all these
people know better how to assess
evidence and interpret, the law
than the Supreme Court of Can..
ada., Them, self,assurance is, im.
pregnable because they do not
entertain criticism.
Orthodox opinion on an increae.
ing number of issues of import•
etre is the creation, not of the
general mind playing freely upon
ascertainable fact, but rather of a
public relations operation which
distorts, or adjusts, orif necess.
any invents the 'fact'. to Conform
with the 'image' required; and
which then creates the appro.
priate response in the pub4e
consciousness.
A crim"noiogist calls the book:
"the most outrageously preju.
diced thing I have ever read."
Mrs. John Vincent of Park ' •
street was in Blyth during the
.. past week owing to the death
and funeral of her niece, the
late Patricia McCallum, who was
--fatally injured in 'a car accident.
She also 'visited a sick friend
at I1$erton Corners on Sunday.
Miss Judy. Demr:noene and Miss
Delores Talman were honored at
a reception in. the Green Room
d! the Canadian Legion with danc-
ing to Carruthers Orchestra.
Mrs. Alice McLean, Dr. and
Mx s. Donald Wigle and Jackie,
of London, visited with Mrs.
McLean of Saitford over the holt
iday. f '
Mrs. Weaver of the Goderich
business college and Miss Helen
McCarthy attended the Canadian
"Centennial conference of.bus.
iness. educators' assocition,,.,
which was held at the Chateau
Laurier hotel, Ottawa, on May
12 and,l3. '. •
if ' you are_ NEW -TO -TOWN or
have just moved into a new
home •
GODERI''CH'S OWN '.. .
�geith
a.sim sone the pa
t
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olf�
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st
called in rteys_rTle
facts were available, but thie'hook�.
did not provide earn. I maintain
the book Was inaecurate,", .A
legal novice, who was not even -
present at he trial, taker,, the
transcript, interviews , sundry
persons,. wleites a paraphat'aslt; ta"
melee a book *W;hich, fails tQ pro-
vide theavailable facts. "Wb t
burden f responsibility rests:,pn
the author for' the sensationalism
.she engendered?",
Would you call'this suppressio
yeri? •
"THE SOLDI'ERS"
Rolf liochmuth has written a
play called 'The Soldiers', In
order to make it really avant
garde, his characters are or were
real personages. One of his.char.
acters is made to, say: "I think
it's better to bump Sheol -ski off!"
The character into. whose `mouth
these worded cee putt is named
'Sir 'Winston Churchill'. I iswic.
trim' is General Sikorski, who
commanded the Polish troops,`
rescued from the maws of Stalin
and .Hitler, to tae reorganised into
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45. •
Just now the vogue is for the
satirical, play. We have bad" Mac.
bird" of course, and it'has been
followed b "Waiting for Bobby".
One e scene is' laid at "Animal
Ranch" where Lyndon . Bull is .
inre .art g animals for slauhter,' '
the East,'SQdte of the Other
animals are; Hubert the parrot,,
Camel'"Nasser, Mutton Luther
King and Bobsy the Hare Appa.
rent. Others are Bulldogiritain,
Dick Vixen and . Ronald Rodent.
LIES, , NOT SATIRE
This sort of fun and genes may
Pass, as satire,, but it is a very
different thing to write' a play
round Sir Winston •Churchill and
make the charge that he liquidated
an Allied leader in July 1943,
an act. in which the play allege's
Anthony Eden and Professor Lin.
demann both connived. Amazingly
Sir Laurence Olivier wanted to
put this play, on at the National
theatre, until the Governors, to a
man, refused.
meanwhile the'press had done a
-b of �es
� iv�t��y_,_d, _e�
1 Ion �
n ark
'with the following story: iii May'
1943 General Sikorski flew to'
Cairo and Teheran for talks,,Two
months later he was flown out of
Gibraltar in a Liberator, piloted
by a Czech, Captain Prchal.
There were 17 passengers on
boardat take -off on July 4th 1943.
The flight was timed to,start after
dark to evade enemy fighter air.
craft and the German search.,
nights at Algeciras. Where was no
horizon and it was an instrument
take -off: .The plane crashed into
the sea, some three to four hun.
dred yards, from the end of the
'runway. The General, his daugh.
ter _and several other passengers
did not survive.
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Captain Prchal now dives in
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alx .
several vicissitudes in Czecho•
slovakia. Fourteen, years 249 110
gave a statement in writing to a
Polish journalist, who produced it
on April •29th ' 19.67 to the "Sun.
. day Times,!' The statementzcle
aims that the controls became
suddenly blockedand the elevator
could • not bemoved. The gib
Control tower responded' to his
call and the sea rescue service
went out. The plane hit the water.
from an altitude of only 300
feet, at a speed of 150m.p.h,.
The pilot wasstunned and only
saved from drowningby his 'Mae
West.
.: After the Communist 'coup in
Ceechoslovalcia in 1948, a Dr.
Brom ,of o the .security
ptool.� ce-;a, -
.� .
P r al test/ that
'theacci
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which caused tb General's doat ',th
was due tQ sabotaged carried out
oil -instructions from British *
telii g c ei !e ' S•e;irvice. to 1949 'at a
. s trial" in .Warsaw . one bo
zinski was sentenced to death.
Captain Prchal saw`the red.wli t
and flew out to England'' rl an
aircraft he commandeered.
What does the perpetrator ,of
"The Soldiers)'•' say :to a'll',this
new evidence? He refuses; to rte'
move the .:Sikorski-section, and
claims' that it is necek ry to'
support his main theme gfchur.
chill's bomtsing of'Germanicities
Would you call this suggestid'
fals;?
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these facts about electric wiring.
To' mast people, home improvements
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shiny new set of kitchen cupboard ,But
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Up-to-date wiring lets you make the
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