The Icelandic Canadian - 01.09.1968, Blaðsíða 18

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Autumn 1968
allies, have chosen to reassert in this
connection their faith and their loyal-
ty to the Alliance should be recalled
here as a source of legitimate satis-
faction — — —
“-------The ultimate political pur-
pose of the Alliance is to achieve a
just and lasting peaceful order in Eur-
ope, accompanied by appropriate
security guarantees. The basis of this
search for peace is the maintenance of
our common military strength and
(political solidarity, for let us be clear
in our minds about one central point:
as long as the Soviet Union continues
to support an enormous and growing
military establishment, there can be
no hope of any lasting and fair settle-
ment unless the Allies have the will
to maintain adequate defences and
unity of purpose. .
The Government of Canada was
represented by Mr. M. Cardieux,
Under-Secretary of State for External
Affairs, substituting for Hon. Mitchell
Sharp, who, on account of the elections
in Canada on June 25, was not able to
be present. Mr. Cardieux had a special
meeting of the Canadian delegation
and the Canadian press representatives
which included W. J. Lindal of Win-
nipeg and Vladimir Mauko of Tor-
onto, who represented the Canada
Ethnic Press Federation. Judging by
his remarks Mr. Cadieux appears to
have had a premonition of what was
going to happen in Czechoslovakia.
He warned about not being disturbed
about the “hardening of Soviet policy
and restrictive measures by East Ger-
many with regard to Berlin’’.
On behalf of Mr. Mauko and my-
self I wish to express our appreciation
to the Government of Canada, and
in particular to Hon. Mitchell Sharp
for including representation from the
Canada Ethnic Press Federation in
the delegation to the NATO Confer-
ence in Reykjavik.
-W. J. Lindal