After years of neglect, Jim Cairns has been coming in for a great deal of analysis, and remembrance of things past. He had to die before he could recapture some of the attention and respect from his contemporaries that was once his as of right.Those who have come late upon the scene are not likely to be able to understand the political milieu in which Cairns had worked, and the significance of the tragedies which befell him.One who did understand what a very special person he was, as well as a d…
