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Canada Faces Facts W/iTHOl'T in any way getting into parti sail polities we wish to commend the courage of the Canadian Government, hi an effort to counter a Soviet cold-war of fensive the administration in Ottowa is risking defeat in next year's election. This is the picture. Stalin has frankly announced that Communist strategy hinges on an attempt to pull .Japan and Germany into the Rus sian orbit with what might he called ‘'eco nomic magnets." The plan is to take ad vantage of the tendency of tin anti-Com munist nations to raise tariffs against .Jap anese and German goods. Moscow will try to make trade with the Soviet so attractive for the two countries that they will he drawn away from the West. Canada’s answer is to send a special • mission to Tokyo to negotiate a trade agree mnt designed to give .Japan a better mar ket in Canada. This makes a lot of sense. Such action is vastly more effective than bushels of anti-Comnjunist propaganda. But it can tie very unpopular with certain Canadians. All who feel that Japanese im ports would endanger their own business will react unfavorably. Enough ol tins sentiment' could tip the. balance of an elec tion. Here is the political risk the Ottowa government is taking it) its economic plans for chocking the Reds. The same problem faces the Ended States. American expenditures in Japan for the Korean war are temporarily hiding the “impossible" economic position of Japan. But this is an artificial arrangement. It should be supplemented and gradually re placed with long-rangy- measures to help Japan maintain a healthy economic life within the free world. W'e hope Washing ton will match Ottawa’s courage in shap
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