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Portugal
A country not often in the news
is Portugal' where, for more than
fifteen years, Antonio de Oliviero
Salazar has ruled unopposed, nom-
inally as Premier but actually as
absolute dictator.
Salazar's methods were unspec-
tacular as compared with those of
dictators such as Hitler and,Musso-
lini. As one foreign correspondent
puts it, "Salazar's own temperament
and the lack of interest of the Por-
tuguese people have led him to as-
sume, the. role of headmaster rather.
than tyrant; and although he has
been accused of making undue use
of his political. police, there is no
state of terror in Portugal."
This month—for the first time
since 1928 — there was talk of an
opposition candidate. General de
Matas, former War Minister, an-
Bounced that he would run against
Carmona and, if elected, abolish •the
Salazar regime and institute a
liberal democracy without any poll-
tical police or censorship.
But no one in Portugal appears
to have become greatly excited by
the -announcement For one thing,
General de Matos : is eighty years
of age. For another, the chances are
he will find plenty of road -blocks
and detours on his way to the
Presidency. As one citizen put it,
"If the General appears to be
making -much headway, Salazar will
probably call off the election alto-
gether."
Malaya
Situated on the' southeastern tip
of the mainland of Asia is Malaya
— a country consisting largely of
jungle with a population of around
five million—but a great producer
of rubber and tin.
Since'the early part of the lath
century Malaya has been a British
possession. Then, after three and
a half years of Japanese occupation
during the last war, the people
started agitating for self-rule.
Britain reorganized the administra-
tion of Malaya and made certain
change's, but the real controls re-
mained in the hands of the British
High. Commissioner.
But the Malayans were not satis-
fied. Prices kept rising while wages
remained ate low level. And for the
past few months the Communists
have been exploiting this discontent
to the limit.
A wave of terror has been spread-
ing. Landlords and industrialists
have been murdered — industry
brought to a standstill — and the
country's only coal mine put out of
commission. British troops, backed
by native police, went into action
and there were pitched battles near
Kuala Lanpur, Om capital.
Mexicc
A. casual visitor to Mexico City
on a recent evening ,night have
almost imagined that Mexico and
the United States were at the point
of war. A crowd of between five
hundred and a thousand had gath-
ered in front of the United States
Embassy and there were loud
shouts of "Death to the Yankees"
—"Mexico is not a Yankee colony"
- "Dotyn with Yankee imperialism"
and the like.
But it wasn't as serious as it
looked and sounded. The whole
thing started when, on July 2nd,
a plane carrying members of the
Mexican -United States foot and
mouth disease Commission crashed
on a snow-capped mountain. Six-
teen men were killed—eight Ameri-
cans and eight Mexicans,
But Mexican newspaper reporters
and photographers claimed that the
United States troops and officials
hindered them in their coverage of
the story and wouldn't .let there
take pictures bf the wreck—also
refused to give then( shelter and
food during the four days it took
to recover the bodies.
The United States
No natter what happens to him
on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, President
Truman, with his call for a special
session of Congress, got in the first
healthy punch of the election cam-
paign. •
It was' a punch that
really jarred
the 'Republicans. In spite of their
immediate charge that the president.
was "merely playing politics," there
was real confusion in their ranks.
Truman's dramatic move of. calling
Congress' into session not only to
discuss but to act upon such matters
as housing, prices, minimum wages
and social security—matters which
he claims they left undone during
the regular session—has put it right
up to the opposition.
One of the most severely jolted
by the President's Glove—which
wasn't wholly unexpected but still
one the Republicans were hoping
Truman wouldn't make—is Gov-
ernor Thomas E. Dewey. From his'
point of view it will mean that the
Republican majority in Congress --
rather than he as as Presidential
candidate—will be called on to in-
terpret ithe party platform, And
with the position of so litany influ-
ential Republicans in Congress so
sharply divergent from his own, this
special session would appear to be
full of hidden dancers for Dewey.
Harness Horses Coming Down to the Line For a Quick Start -Harness horse racing—trotters
and pacers—is booming as never before in many parts of Ontario, as well as throughout Canada
and the United States. One of the chief reasons for the increasing popularity of the sport
with the general public is the use of a variety of starting devices which eliminate much of
the tedious "scoring",false starts and recalls which were so boring to all except the real harness
horse devotee. Seen in action in this exclusive picture taken at the New Hamburg, Ont.,
track is the Climie-Wliitesill starting device. The barrier or "gate" is built into the rear of
the starter's car. When the horses are lined up behind, the car moves off, slowly at first then
with gradually increasing speed. When the starting point is reached the car speeds up, the
wings of the gate fold, and the horses are on their way, generally to a perfect start.
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If mechanical ingenuity and in-
ventive skill can do it, there
shouldn't be a single squabble or
dispute in connection with the latest
—and it might prove to be last—
renewal of the "Olymping" Games,
currently being held in dear old
I,unnon. For the sportsmen who
foster these things have gone to no
end of trouble dolling up the affair
with scientific gadgets and contrap-
tions designed to eliminate all
human frailty and guesswork from
the various results and finishes.
$ *
There won't be any be -ribboned
Badger for instance, precariously
perched—tape in hand—on top of
a shaky ladder, measuring the
height of a pole vaulter's leap
while the crowd looks breathlessly
on, pulling for the ladder to break
and the Badger • to land on his
crumpet. The pole vault uprights
will be rigged with a pointer and.
sliding scale which can be clearly
read without the use of ladders.
*
A so, somebody continues to
take all the joy out of life. We
vividly recall one track and field
meet where the pratt-fall taken by
a pole-vault judge from the top of
an untrustworthy ladder was the
biggest hit of the entire afternoon—
the only happening, in fact, which
roused the occupants of the Press
Box from their slumbers.
They're going to fire the start-
ing gun for the Flat races byremote.
control. In the one hundred, two
hundred and four hundred meter
events—run in lanes and with the
starting positions "staggered"—the
runner do the outside is sometimes
as much as 150 feet away from the
one in the pole position. The latter
would hear the sound of the start-
ing gun as much as a tenth of a
second before it hit the ears of the
outside man—and in events such as
those a tenth of a second can be
sufficient to make all the difference
between a winning effort and a
losing one.
* * *
But while this remote control
stuff may be an improvement, still
there was something to be said for
the old method where the starter
stood—loaded gat in hand—an im-
pressive figure if ever there was one,
And Man, Oli Man, didn't soine of
them know it, tool. We remember
one of them who used to stand
there posing for what seemed like
hours in order to make sure that
the eyes • of all present = and es-
pecially the feminine ones — were
properly focused on hint, while the
I1 waits sprinters, crazy to he off,
remained on the track, rapidly de-
veloping severe cases of the fantods.
* * *
But there cane a day when this
gent got his come-uppance. Some
miscreants • whose identity was
never divulged—and which we, for
one, aren't going to reveal—man-
aged to gaits access to the bag in
which this self-important starter
kept his gun and blank cartridges.
For the latter they substituted some
which contained charges of about
four tines the normal power and
noise. The first time that afternoon
the starter pulled the trigger he not
only started the race—he startled
himself into taking an unintended
leap into the air of near -record pro-
portions and it was months before
he was his old-time master-of-all-I-
ssrvey self again.
*
No wonder, either. When that
gun wept off it sounded more like
a H.E.shell than a blank cartridge.
However, if it did nothing else, the
incident served to enliven for a
too -brief moment an afternoon of
track-and-field which — devoid of
such happenings - can be about as
deadly dull as anything you will
find in the entire sports almanac.
* * *
Other innovations to be intro-
duced at the 1948 renewal of the
Games will include a camera which
will not only picture the exact order
of a close finish but mechanically
time the athletes as well; special
sand that will retain an exact im-
pression of the juniper's hind heel
until a hairline device measures the
leap more exactly than any human
can do; new -type starting blocks
that can be adjusted to suit each
individual runner and so deprive
sprinters 'of one of their favorite
alibis—that their foot slipped at the
start; hurdles of aluminium so
weighted that if a tapper hits one
with an ounce more than the pre-
scribed eight pounds "topping
weight" it will topple as surely as
a six -horse parlay; and—hut what's
the use?
* * *
Enough is enough; and we have
already told you more than suffi-
cient to prove the plausibility of our
opening statement which, as you
have doubtless forgotten,'was to the
effect that "if mechanical ingenuity
and inventive skill can do it" the
Olympics at London should be en-
tirely without the customary squab-
bles, disputes and such -like goings-
on.
* * *
But although that would seem, on
the face of it, like a resonable
enough statement we wouldn't ad-
vise you to go making book and
offering too liberal odds that it
turns out to be a strictly truthful
one. We have too vivid a memory
of track-and-field meets of old, and
of Olympic Games of bygone years.
And while they may introduce
mechanical devices for starting,
timing, measuring and deciding the
order of finishes, there still seems
to be one essential lacking for a
reign of peace, perfect peace.
* * *
For we haven't seen any an-
nouncement of a gadget or me-
chanical contraption guaranteed to
gag, muzzle or otherwise render
speechless the horde of coaches,
Badgers and other official hangers-
on who always clutter up the track
and field picture, and who can be
observed—and heard at their dead-
liest—when
ead-liestwhen in the interests of inter-
national good -feeling and friendli-
ness the Olympics are being held.
Unforeseen Results
"Did you give your wife a lec-
ture on economy?" asked the friend
of the brand-new bridegroom.
"I did," was the grim reply.
"What results?"
"I gaye up week -end golf and'
started a vegetable garden."
Can't Win Elections
On Just Plain Wind
It is not extravagant yammering
on the hustings that wins elec-
tions, but a party's success in giv-
ing voters the belief that they are
getting good government, wary for
the best interests of the people,
says a writer in The Financial
Post.
The old parties should think about
that. Between elections their po-
litical organizations are pretty much
in dormant hibernation. The CCF is
everywhere at work every week,
solidifying interest, building loyalty,
exploiting the human and all -but
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Most Canadians want democ-
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a socialist government takes over.
It won't.
This country's fate depends not
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government it gets, but on the suc-
cess of democratic parties in bring-
ing hone to the millions in warm
compelling human terms, their re-
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his personal problems.
That is not now being done. It
must be and can be if outmoded
methods will be abandoned in time.
New methods of rice -growing,
using less water, have been suc
cessfully used by Australian grow-
ers in New South Wales.
Woud-Be Assassin — Antonio
Pallaute, 25 -year-old Sicilian
law student, was seized in the
• attempted assassination of Ita-
lian Communist leader Palmire
Togliatti. "I considered Tog-
liatti an enemy of my country,"
Pallante told police.
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