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jown over the moun-
ins, thoughts turn to
membrance of things
ast, .

I first saw Vancouver in
952. 1 had an introduction
‘om a friend on The Times
= Ross Munro, editor of The
Ancouver Province,

Malcolm Lowry wis still
ving in Deep Cove and said

at if you stuck a pin into a
Yancouverite, out popped a
ttle Union Jack.

Times have changed.

There were no jobs avail-

Mabie but Ross phoned the

ditor of The Calgary Herald |

d I took off over the
ountains in my A40
ustin,
In those days there was
© Trans-Canada Highway.
‘ou had.to go down into the
tates and back up again.
he,trip took two days.
1 stayed at a two-buck
MamOp Opposite the CPR rail-
ay station, Howls and
reams pierced the night air.
mt really was a cow, town.

And wonderful

There | was, thinking that
iT didn’t get the job I'd be
trekking across the prairies in
winter, knocking on editorial
doors. Where were the sleds?
Whiers were the dogs?

My luck was in, The edi
tor had covered the Dunkirk
disaster and we had a talking
point,

a try you for a couple
of weeks," he said,

My first story got onto
the front page, It was about
the biggest number of com-
bines ever to do a harvest
together. The scene was new
to me. | glamorized it and
gota $10 vaise to $65 a
week,

Many focal stories were
double Dutch to me, Other
reporters helped.

Three years later, back on
the coast, it was labor report-
ing for a while and I was
soon declared persona non
grata at the Labor Temple.

“Doug Collins is the rot-
ten apple in the barrel,” said
a commie delegate,

Later | asked a visiting
Russian minister of forests
how it felt to be the biggest
slave labor employer in the
world, Some people thought
that was in bad taste. I said
we needed more bad taste,
not less,

Time marched on and as
a CBC interviewer on the
nightly 7 O° Clock Show J
got to talk to all kinds of vis-
iting biggics.

Lord Mountbatten was

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one, The interview was
filmed in the Hotel
Vancouver where he was str
rounded by obsequious naval
Hunkies.

Before the session started
he said he would not discuss
the war In Vietnam — a
touchy subject for royalty,

T got him talking about it
anyway and he sald the
Americans should never have
become involved in a land
war in Asia,

Then, with an imperious
wave of the hand he said,
“Cut that out. Cut that
out.” And it was. In those
days producers didn't cross a

Mountbatten.

I liked him. He had seen
the dying Brits and Aussies in
Burma and said, “I had many
Japanese friends before the
war but I’ve never been back
to Japan since.”

Then there was Field
Marshal Lord Slim. A real
gentleman who raised an
eyebrow at my upstart ques-
tions. At one point he said
something like:

“I'm a field marshal you
know. But it doesn’t seem to
worry you very much,”

“No sir,” I replied. “I was
a sergeant.” And he laughed,

There were prime minis-
ters and lesser souls, the
most memorable of whom
was wonderfully brash
Gordon Gibson Sr, It was
Gordon who broke the Bob
Sommers forest industry

Complete mT en
plus oll & filter change,

seandal with his “money
talks” speech in the legisla-
ture,

“Vote for Honest Bob,”
urged Wacky Bennett at the
next election. And they did,
But Honest Bob ended up in
the clink,

There were comments
from backwoods MLA
hearties that would now
cause a national scandal, “We
bin screwed, jewed and tat-
toaed,” one such Socred told
me on air, Nobody took any
notice,

In Cuba in 1961 Thad
Fidel Castro cornered for a
filmed interview but didn’t
get it because our sound man
was missing, It went to
Robin Day of the BBC, now
“Sir” Robin. | wept for

months,

There have been scoops
and droops. But I never
expected there would be a
Human Rights Heresy
Hearing. Or that I would be
described as being in my
dotage by a Toronto colum-
nist.

So I thought I'd record a
few items from the days when
I had my wits about me.

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columnists published in the
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of view, but those views are not

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