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% wee APWI ». ' A | | ' I Democracy's Freedom r Om Totalitarian Effici Seen in Peace Traini ween in Peace Iraining | k Peacetime military training, to bring equal responsibility into line with equal rights for all individuals and at the same time provide strength for the enforcement of international law, was advocated before the Ontario Legislature yesterday by Lieut.--.Gen. Guy G. Simonds, recently returned O-------------- from command of Canada's Euro-- '"That brought military victory," pean forces. _ _continued Gen. Simonds. "Whether ; Freedom of thought and spirit.! * respond to its benefit depends !"the highest tokens of our democ.| *°" the way we tackle the postwar racy," can still be retained ana| PYOPlems and face up to the ore a ' the efficiency claimed for a totali-- sponsibilities of the future. I be-- mal means, of dealing in interna-- tarian state can still be achieved,| leYy®e we have a weakness after up-- tional affairs, then the United Na-- Gen. Simonds declared, by recogni--! heavals like this last war and, for-- tions must be strong enough to. |tion of the principle that individual, &¢t the sgreat lesson that was start up its decision," he declared. | freedom assumes a sense of indi-- taught. When Great Britain and "Now, following from that, I can | vidual responsibility. Through this: the Empire went to war they were not believe that Canada ever will | acceptance, the best means of de--| Perilously weak and faced a grave be engaged in a war, except in con--| fense is created when war does| dGdanger. I believe that at one stage | nection with a vital issue, and when | occur and the whole strength of the| every one believed that victory was | we have to fight for a vital issue, nation would be available "to be| &A long way off and believed even | we simply can not afford to lose.| put into the pool for victory." i that it was uncertain." | and nothing less than an all-outl Gen. Simonds appeared as a guest| With the attack on Russia by| effort can be considered an effort of the Legislature, was introduced|) Germany and the advent of the which will see us through. { by Premier Drew as one of thc' United States into the war, how--. "Now, that is why I am a believer | war's most brilliant leaders and; ever, it became "only a question in a system of universal military was welvompd on behalf of other| of time." Though Canadian troops | training. I think in a democra:y{ opr s L » ~ | R a s i7 i A 611?\',2; Z'\m{"glca.lp.l"efig;ael:.'ar\({--lfh?; became restless at seeming inac-- :i:;t m\l:::hricz'ir;ltii thl::} g:;:'s'tc'p;:,' Grummett. The youthful, slender.' (tivity, and their people at home <har'ed e uaiq Feg or1gsib}lities and! dark--haired warrior, wearing three |became restless, too, there was a {hat whpr? the nat?on s en aéed in rows of ribbons, including the DSO, |bperiod during which reverses were a life and death strugsele "?9 Wwhole : obviously would have felt more at |Suffered all over the world. And effort of the nétionggm"m be put home before a soldier audience-- |this was when it was not fully into the bool Tor victOoLy. P as he admitted when he spoke---- |realized, perhaps, that the problem e bplielz'e in & svsten;'of univer: but there was a calmness to his |'was to "make an army that would sal military training. because as I Bearing that reflected the brilliant _ provide a strategic reserve for the ae AF : "th 'tg'd tic. of record which Premier Drew out-- defense of a vital base, which Brit-- 5?1'" 11 is e mos .dem'ol::ra lCC lined in his introduction. ain had become, and build an army f' m:a;ures ;0 provnue tf ® r;e'cl;; Seldom uad the House given as too to take the offensive when the ;a}::n ii i':'sei aorai:n (;\()asntoyfa::e the attentive hearing to any visitor as tidg turned." ordeal of'a waf y "Tiaa Iiman ag anada, he continued, was able to 4 ix'mr:;'d t';nr::nt;":?,'n:l:]?n:sie%lar,:;l&i take advantage of British schools; Ri'lf;;ts E:}t)ab}ljl.sl:ed' ( Abe devel on a single sheet of paper, smilingly _ While graduating to setting up its| towi' ed m morn t9 agh: op;: sccepied the tributes paid him as) 'O%® ftainlMs contre. The (TesUuN! Hlas 'been to lay mphase on ithel ""tributes to those soldiers whom was that "we took into the field the| las feen h° gy d@ml_? as!s in th'ej I had the high privilege to serve _ best--trained and best--equipped| . ,!aSt e;_zv h 8n (;'.e'd ye;ars donu le, with." He had had opportunity _ &"Mmies ever presented by the Brit. jright of the indivi fell "establl WeX to see all the Allied soldiers, he _ ish Empire." The Empire, in fact, those rights are we ic State. bar| said, Canada's had been "unsur--. @ll the Allies, had gone into war| _ NOW in '--"9;;3' de'mowatl(batfll E7 hu | passed." perilously weak, partly "the vesult| I think the tlmebpro N 't'si The responsibility of a command--| Of wishful thinking and the failure| _ come "_'"_'e" it may be nelc?ss?lry To j er in the field was very heavy, Gen.! to face the deteriorating interna-- _ emphasize at least gqgfll.,:j tle.rlhe'l Simonds continued. Such a leader: _ tional situation for many years and| _ Sbonsibilities of the in m uai d L has the lives of many men as his| [PAMIY because we hoped that others! . CEMLS Cooat ine ionantarian ane. charge, and though sometimes "re-- would follou" our example; in other| _ comes from 'thel !Ota'lta:'t'xart' _Sysa ports" gave the inference that| | Words, that if we were not prepared| t.em..anf their claim is ka mtor "flash" decisions or "sudden inspi--. |to defend ourselves others would | totalitarian State 1;] mt:i es h# decision, the fact was that orders| ; League Failed | f:;no;::a;:r B;Sfficiéncy has to ~be were premised only on careful plan--; "The result was the most disas--, gained at the expense of the rights ning of all problems and to meet trous and destructive war mankind| of the individual. all situations. | _ (hgs ever known," he continued. _ | "I think that any believer in He was glad to acknowledge the| "The League of Nations failed to, democracy would maintain that tributes of representatives from} | naintain the rights of small nations;| providing due attention is given to every part of Ontario because Can-- |there was a failure to deal with' the responsibilitiee of the indi--| ada's soldiers had earned an en-- |the Manchurian situation, the in-- vidual, then democracy can cer--| viable reputation for heroism and ability to deal with the continuous, tainlv' hold its own against any skill in battle, and Ontario's men encroachment of Nazi Germany into. syqte'm of government. | had provided a "large quota" of _ neighboring European State, and | '"IF 'we Tace up our responsibili--| the brains of command an'd of _ |ultimately, we were faced with the | ties and are prepared to accept staffs in many commpnds, They: jcrisis of Munich. : \ _ them, then I am sure that we can: had been part of the best--equipped "I believe if the democratic peace-- maintain just as hgh a degree of and trained army ever put into the _ loving nations of this world are go-- efficiency in the democratic State field by any nation, with the re-- ing to fight another disastrous war | as can be maintained in a totali-- sult seen in Germany's collapse and, _ of that kind, then their policy must tarian system, and that would a few weeks later, peace in the _ be based on strength and not on mean the retention of that free-- world as the Japs surrendered. weakness. If the United Nations-- dom of thought and spirit which ery. by which the ruling law be. -- SUtely is the greatest virtue of tween nations is to become the nor--, d-en'1_c_>fl_'a. . nommininimeesine.« miniid ifi dr cce mmrnmneniznmtzal