July 23, 1966

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THE SHARP/GORDON DEBATE

WALTER GORDON was 60 last January. Mitchell Sharp didn’t turn 55 until May. Yet Gordon is widely accepted as chief of the Liberal Party’s Angry Young Men, while Sharp is a member and symbol of Ottawa's elderly Establishment. Sharp left school at 14 to help his mother support the family, worked his way through university at night classes, took a postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics when it was run by socialist Harold Laski.

MAILBAG

IN GENERAL., I agree with Mavor Moore's views when he squares off with If Our Nay-Saying, Doom-Crying, Short-Sighted, Penny-Pinching Culture Baiters Want A Fight — Well, They've Got It. But why doesn’t he get out of Toronto and find out what is going on in the rest of Canada?