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Tall, chesty Ian Mackenzie, Minister of Veterans Affairs, roared in his broadest Scottish burr: "We in Canada have shared the Union Jack-we will always honor it. . . . But we have nothing peculiarly and indisputably our own ... as the symbol of this great nation of ours." Conservative George R. Pearkes plumped for the Red Ensign.* Conservative Thomas Church cheered for the British Union Jack: "One flag . . . one anthem, one throne, one Empire." So many had ideas that at session's end decision had to be deferred...
Maps Outdated. For security reasons, the extent and nature of the harbor installations at Guam can be indicated only in the broadest terms. This much can be said: the Japanese left Port Apra much as they found it, with berths for only half a dozen oceangoing ships at most. Six months after the marines landed on either side of it, Port Apra was swallowed up in a harbor development unrivaled in the Pacific. The old charts are worse than useless today; even the topographic maps must be changed, for an island has been leveled to provide fill...
...words meant anything, the Big Three did more for their nations and their world at Yalta than they did at Teheran. After their Persian meeting, they proclaimed agreement only in the broadest generalities. After their Crimean meeting, they not only proclaimed agreement on every point taken up in their announcement, but on the most difficult points broke down the agreement into hard specifics...
...will state it in the broadest and most familiar terms: government of the people, by the people and for the people, set up on the basis of free universal suffrage, elections with secrecy of ballot, and no intimidation...
...Inner Circle. Actually, there is not much mystery about what Hopkins does, although there is plenty about how he does it. In the broadest terms, he works on whatever happens to be uppermost in Franklin Roosevelt's mind at the time?usually the most pressing immediate problem before the Administration. The minute such a problem is superseded in importance by another, Hopkins drops it and moves on to the next...