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...decrease Canada's military commitments to NATO and the United Nations. No break with the United States over Vietnam is forseeable, although there is considerable opposition to U.S. policies both in Canada generally and within the Liberal government. Trudeau has already made it clear that he will not attempt to interfere with the manufacture of Vietnam-bound war materials within Canada, as Canadian anti-war groups have demanded. While announcing plans to pull Canadian troops out of NATO, Trudeau has stressed the importance of continental defense arrangements such as NORAD, and it is fairly certain that Canada will be making...
Thus Trudeau's approach to Ottawa-Quebec relations is likely to be less diplomatic and cautious than was Pearson's. For Trudeau will attempt to do something that Pearson could never do: he will try to replace the Premier of Quebec as the leader of French Canada. This effort may well lead to a direct confrontation between Premier Johnson and Prime Minister Trudeau on the question of special status for Quebec. And if such a confrontation occurs, it could prove to be the turning point--one way or the other--in the 200 year history of French-English division...
Dadism, starting in Zurich after World War I, was anti-art--the art of rebellion, aimed at attacking traditional sensibilities, shocking them, and confusing them. Surrealism followed, combining cubism and dadism, using often grotesque fantasy and dream elements to attempt an art of the sub-conscious and irrational...
...diplomacy, statecraft, teaching, autobiography, satire and book reviewing are areas on which John Kenneth Galbraith has imposed his imperious rationality (TIME cover, Feb. 16). The Triumph, his first novel, is one of his less successful impositions. Strictly speaking, it is not a novel at all; it is an awkward attempt to put a fictional frame around a critique of U.S. foreign policy, which Galbraith feels is based on an indiscriminate fear of Communism. His characters are hardly more than clothespins colored to represent bureaucratic types. His locale is Puerto Santos, a banana republic where a moderate liberal ousts an overripe...
Lawyers for Dr. Benjamin Spock and four co-defendents charged with illegal activities against the draft continued their attempt yesterday to have the conspiracy indictment against the men dismissed...