The Bermuda Recorder

              wednesday february 10 1960 the bermuda recorder page fire ! britain and europe the new seven-power european fjee trade association the paris conference agreed to treat this as a matter of prior ity this is important canada w i free trade a s p 0 r t s continued from page 2 i'nited states initiative at tho western summit meeting in paris in december there was agreement that a fresh effort should be made to build up western economic unity in 1 '" eeoud week of january consultations started in paris with a special conference of perhaps however before any solid economic progress can be made one or two malig nant political ghosts have to be laid some people in con tinental europe still believe that it is a secret britain aim to prevent economic aud poli tical integration in western europe and to break up the six they think that british policy has been two-faced ever since sir winston churchill first called for a united europe and a european army at the same time holding that britain could and should join neither today they imagine that the e.f.t.a is a british secret weapon against the common market suggested by arthur blakely it is no secret that canadian authorities are nervous about the impact which the forma tion of new trading bloes may liave on canada's export trade and this despite hearty official insurances that things will doubtless work out for the i est somehow or other in the i nd dusting off the sports bfl b wins 4-1 over bfc by stabilizer oeec countries the i'.s.a a canada although a j rp f w of wortt — and time — needed before the main pro blems ean be solved at amh a dangerous trend in european - affairs seems to have been halt • d and a new approach may have been made possible britain believes that the most urgent task is to find a way of bringing together the two different economic roups now exwting in europe — thc six-power economic commun ity or common market and the two leagues turned in a hot game at the baa field last sunday the 3-:j result was considered to be a good one i>y most of the big crowd at the game both teams lonyli hard enough to make the game interesting for < \ erybody in a game as good as that there had to be i chances and there were some on both teams two league av hard drives from the hard working bfc forwards who should have scored long before they did they failed to shoot from a safe distance for scor ing preferring to coast the ball into the net it cost them at least two possible draw 3-3 there is a vague uneasiness bout what may happen to siile trading canada nations but what pleased everybody was the hard clean inucr in which the game was played george sousa was nially kicked over the right eye when he fell down in tiont of one of the bfl players the inter league match at the baa field saw the ber muda football league team come from a 3-1 deficit and tie up the match at 3-3 by common consent among thc spectators it was a good game fast and hard both teams missed chances to get import ant goals some of thc chances to score were very rosy at times for about twenty min utes the bermuda football combination team were all over thc bfl it was at that time that they piled in two very quick goals six-nation common market h>d the trade area seven-nation tree wade opened the scoring for the game with a beautiful goal with his head it made up for an earlier miss when he was but ten yards from his opponents goal the bfl for wards were finding it difficult to penetrate the bfc defence which remained tight all through the match goals in strasbourg mr lloyd did his utmost to straighten out nee and for all these strange distortions of british policy the british he said regard themselves as part of europe even if they are also members of the commonwealth and like many other european coun tries of the atlantic commun ity xext he categorically de nied that britain was opposed to the six a strong political unity of the six he said is good for western europe and for britain we welcome it wc will support it — provided of course that it does not de velop into a high-tariff protec tionist group nor an inward looking political group in op position to a larger europe or vato but at the same time there is a marked reluctance to enter either ii only because such a course might expose high-cost domestic producers to foreign i mpetition with which they mijf'it be unable to cop 1 . although the 3-3 result was a just one for both cam it can also be said to have been close too either side could have won that match both missed what ap peared to be some easy chances in both half's of the game mum 1 black seail siest was a miss by wade when standing nearly on goal line but honours must go to the bfl players lor their fight in getting back into the game after trailing ■ ' 1 :. i all lime their supporters must have felt that would he beaten by at least three goals for at that ot the game the bfc forwards were on top it was opposition leader lester i carson lias it's true hinted imicately and cautiously thai the whole question of camu dian relations with these new trading blocs should be given i uca more st-rimis study tha.i it has yet received and he l.ad nm&tioned canadian entry into such groups as a poaibilty but only in a manual off-hand fashion which suggested that h didn'i wi.ih to be expos d to the politiial risk of offering such a course a.i a definite proposal sammy desilva equalised for the bfc with a nice solo ef fort h different story when they came back to play tn"e second halt bfl had some new life and they made good use of it they not only kept their defences tight enough to prevent bfc from scoring but they scored two sharp ab tin liiselvis just when everybody thought it was all up for them most people were happy with the result fifteen minutes before half time the bfc forwards woke up and scored two quick goals cabral hit the second bfc goal which added to the dis comfort of the bfl bfc •\ . rent done yet two minutes later grasshopper desilva slammed in the third goal this made it 3-1 for the com bination at half time the second team of the ber muda football league were more successful in their match which was played at 1.30 the bfc team were outplayed for most of the game only good defensive work by their centre half kept the bfl score from mounting still higher mcc jumped on the jamaica colts in jamaica but thc young fellows came back with some fight still left in i hem mcc will find jamaica a little harder to beat when the two teams meet soon all eyes will be on the test match tin re after the display from the crowd the public will be watching to lee what happens the match was witnessed by his excellency the governor major general sir julian gas coigne who arrived at the ground in time for the second half of play about twenty four hundred people were at match as for the seven mr lloyd -•■<! that thev are hostile to no group and certainly not to the six if thev had ban britain would not have joined them instead britain sees the e f t a as the first step towards ccouomic unity in europe with the six this problem of unity is now to be tackled by a new group of representatives from eighteen european countries the unit ed states and canada and the european commission the dif ficulties as mr lloyd said are too big to expect a quick and easy answer but the need for unity is urgent and the re sults of failure would be very serious europe therefore has to face the challenge success fully play started briskly in th second half maeky simmons virgil and l'hilpott gave them trouble wade scored from a hard drive which went into the net from the crossbar ten minutes before time virgil scored bfl's third goal from a long shot which had the goalie hayward well beaten the teams tried hard for the extra goal but time ran out mid it never came but it seems likely that par liament will g.t around to discussing a frc trade mea sure this tea oa though not a attire in which the sixes and sevens as the m mber states oi the two european trade groups are called will be involved the mcc cannot be coming by here as was first men tioned some time ago we believe it would be better if thc " ' eal out a team from england rn play here rather than have the team now in the west indies stop by ter still why not ask the west indies cricket board of control to send a team here from the west indies to p'ay i series of matches against local sides it might be i h aper than trying to bring a team all the way out from england this should have been done many years ago when the heat was on and the whole population was eric ket minded they still are cricket minded but in those the counter attractions were fewer than they are now we venture to say such a move had it been made then would have been a huge success from start to finish the cricket players in bermuda would have gained some valu al k experience from the association and so would the visitc we have to thank our slow moving board of control for getting exactly nowhere in such a long time both teams started fast in thc first game a battle of the bv and mansfield smith in the bfl goal was called into play early iu spite of the play which went to the bfl team mc*t of the time they could only score one goal in the first half it came from lion player r beach a few minutes later lynn of baa equalised the half ended at 1-1 bfl put on the pressure when play resumed they struck three times twice by roae^and once by darrell m defence was good goal keeper horvath much applause bending bfroin defeat eldon bn kjfl a players a george sousa b desilva al at left back were ., ne of the more interesting lative proposals to be advanced by a pirvate m p i'as been placed on the order paper by herve j midland liberal m.p for the new brunswick riding of kent junior soccer players his offering is a resolution that iu the opinion of this house of the goveoaent should insider the advisability oi establishing free trade be tween canada and the federa tion of the west indies to meet under lights at devonshire r omm one wolves are a fighting the fra xdlllcd tm and their^h ■ nw th double header at white came in im w^w hill will feature the somer sound def a set eagles and the lions at saved them etches 1.3i the 3.15 game will be madeirosd a against the social club and gave 4 ir u u t hi village team r0 »? h tni l ffootball lea match hag been get ri ght back h six matches sommet this is a half stewad w afternoon t nia . h jn whicb w . m outstanding regular second r(iv , rs d<h , k hm dcnis matches and j keeper waj will be knock a^mmm\...l this is one free trade propo sal which will probably be as sured of a considerable mea sure of support in the house of commons six mm tomorn the young men's social club juniors and the devon shire lions juniors will clash in a soccer game under lights at devonshire recreation club iield on friday night the hon w l tucker m.c.p and mrs tucker will be chief patrons of the game which is being played for the coach's trophy the annual the economic risks and the political risks which would flow from these would be al most nil the economies of canada and the west indies federation are almost com pletely complementary free trade with the federation would not expose canadian in dustry to fierce competition from low cost producers two ko blfl general meeting the bermuda gue has schedul of the for play tomorrfl kick-off time will be 8.15 p.m the referee will be mr joe ferriera i i # at a ml * m % jmamw mr wk if # m m vtoronus / ii b cupids //^ b of valentine's b ii somerset cricket clib inc four will be division league ainwright bfl goal busy saving 9 the other two will be held on out fixture and wednesday february 10th 1960 commencing at 8.30 p.m the big double header will be at the bermuda sports arena where the pembroke juniors and the ph-c meet at 1.30 this should be anybody's game then at 3.15 ph-c a play the wolves in a bfl open knock-out match this may not be anybody's game but it will be a really good under existing conditions this is the acid test which any and all free trade proposals must survive as far as can be ascertained from ottawa's experts in the field the pro posal emerges from this test with flying colours agenda on notice board comics comics . by order president a leroy smith secretary fcvkky saturday close friendly there are other reasons why the proposal may be given more serious consideration in the commons than is usually given to the legislative offer ing of any m.p sensational new recorder comic taste the section difference toerya*t does 1 4 fr containing relations trade and other between canada and the west indies have always been both close and friendly j 10 pages with 14 different features aimed at pleasing both young and old alike for many years there was strong sentiment especially in the maritime provinces in favour of admitting the west indian islands the colonies into confederation meet once more your old friends alley oop the little people boots in addition to boots cut-outs this idea continued to be batted around here in canada and in the west indies as well right up to the time that the west indies federation was formed it had quite a few supporters in the house of commons and the senate captain easy the nut bros brenda breeze watch for the mystery of vic flint the original & genuine read all these and more that's really worth your money in the comic the the free trade idea seems to be a logical successor mackeson's canada has taken a friendly neighbourly interest in the new west indies federation and has extended limited eco nomic assistance designed to help it get off on the right foot a your milk stout price of saturday's edition with comic section love bit wed and bottled in tngland by whit bread a co u«l erf 1 742 . 1 i masters imported by frith's liquors limited v sir grantley adams federa tion premier has become a gift center front street hamilton a continued on page 6 j