Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada had important business pending with her sister Dominion, the Union of South Africa. What the business was, the astute East Block (Canadian equivalent of the U.S. State Department) did not say. But to handle it the Dominion last week assigned one of her ablest constitutional lawyers. He is shrewd, friendly Charles J. Burchell, who left a rich practice in his native Nova Scotia to enter Canada's diplomatic service in 1939. Until last week he was High Commissioner in war-important Newfoundland; before that, the first High Commissioner to Australia...
About such a policy the occupants of Ottawa's East Block have evident misgivings. The principal one is that the stresses & strains of any centralized policy for an Empire of widely different peoples and interests might well split the Commonwealth asunder. Canada's new High Commissioner, able Lawyer Burchell, is just the man to explain the East Block's views to Elder Statesman Smuts...
Early this week the R.A.F. was back at work, boring through freezing gales and heavy opposition. Stockholm heard that Adolf Hitler's proud Chancellery was wrecked, hundreds of Berliners trapped in the vast shelter built underneath the block-long, grey stone building...
Thus Russia once again served notice of her determination to block revival of the old cordon sanitaire idea of unfriendly buffer states between Russia and the west. What western statesmen had to worry about was whether Russia intended to make this impossible by setting up its own form of cordon "insanitaire" among the central and eastern European countries...
Stumbling Block. The policy is the stumbling block. Ickes' mind is not yet made up, but his words & deeds clearly indicate that he wants the U.S. Government to get a big piece of the world oil reserves. Last month California Arabian Standard Oil Co. (half owned by Texas Co. and half by Standard of California) attempted to get Government funds for a $120,000,000 expansion in the Middle East. This blew up because Ickes-plus the U.S. Army & Navy-wanted a direct Government stock interest...