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...begun an upswing after a long decline, Harold Wilson's notices are dominated by those embarrassing cartoons. The most telling one, run in the Daily Mail, was a biting play on names, involving Wilson and Britain's Great Train Robber Charles Wilson, who was captured in Quebec two weeks ago. The cartoon showed two trusties chatting outside Robber Wilson's jail cell: "Like the proverb says, Fingers, you can fool some of the people some of the time-but having a name like Wilson makes it difficult...
...forge national unity in a country that has never been united, and at his retirement, this ambition has been frustrated. He saw in the Centennial Year of 1967 a chance to begin a new era in French-English relations. Then General de Gaulle raised the cry "Vive le Quebec libre!" in Montreal, and it was clear once again that the ancient conflict cannot be wished away...
...Gaulle has often enough demonstrated his unique mastery of the power of negative thinking. Last week, in Press Conference No. 16, he surpassed himself. "In 100 minutes," as Paris Le Populaire tidily summed it up, "General de Gaulle in the name of France called for secession of French-speaking Quebec in Canada, tossed England out of Europe, threatened the Common Market with destruction, called the U.S. the principal enemy and suavely knifed Israel." But the broadside effort took its toll. The general's skeins of rationality grew considerably tangled in spots, and he tried to make...
Unacceptable & Intolerable. Not content with the uproar he caused in July by visiting French Canada and calling for a free Quebec, the general went even further in a boldly irredentist bid. Canada, he lectured Ottawa, putting on his glasses for the first time in a press conference, must rewrite its constitution, turning Quebec loose to elevate itself "to the rank of a sovereign state." Then Quebec and France must organize for the "solidarity of the French Community on both sides of the Atlantic." How else, he asked, could the French of Canada "cope with the encroachment...
Characteristically, Dr. Murray reported his work at a fund-raising dinner. Unexpectedly, he had a patient wheeled into the ballroom. The patient: Bertrand Proulx, 24, a Quebec truck driver whose spinal cord was injured in an accident four years ago, had not been able to move his hands or elbows and breathed with his diaphragm because he could not expand his chest...