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...quite prepared," said Opposition Leader Stewart Aitken-Cade, "to snatch weapons from the Communists and use them against them. If undemocratic methods are necessary, I will be the least democratic of all.'' The honorable members rapped their desks in well-bred applause, then began debating a drastic series of bills to slap down the blacks even harder. Among them: a "Preventive Detention Act" which for the next five years would give Rhodesian police the power to detain indefinitely suspected nationalists or anyone "likely to endanger the public safety." Under the act the police could issue detention orders without...
Another speaker with a professional interest was Margaret Aitken, who doubles as a columnist for the Toronto Telegram. Tory Aitken pointed out that some of the U.S. magazines are not matched by any comparable publication in Canada and that the government, by whittling them down, would be imposing "a form of censorship." Protested Margaret Aitken: "I resent government interference with my reading matter...
...hollow parody of power that his life has become." Many a perplexed reader wondered what the devil had got into the Express. This unflattering portrait was none other than that of the Express' own boss and Britain's foxiest old (75) press lord, William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, the first Baron Beaverbrook...
...plunging necklines and backless dresses of modern brides are becoming an increasing distraction to clergymen officiating at weddings, the Rev. Leslie Aitken of Burley Vicarage, Leeds, England complained to his Anglican parishioners. "During the ceremony," the clergyman said, "the girls stand two steps below me . . . It's all terribly embarrassing...
Whether he won them over to his viewpoint is a question that will be answered only in future Canadian foreign-policy decisions and debates. But there was no doubt that John Foster Dulles personally had made a good impression on Canadian leaders. The reaction of Toronto Conservative M.P. Margaret Aitken was typical: "I don't necessarily agree with his point of view, but it was immensely reassuring to know that the U.S. has men of that intellectual caliber...