Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Immediacy. Nearly two hours later, the meeting broke up. Tentatively, the President had made a twofold decision: the U.S. would 1) send an armed vanguard to Lebanon, and 2) lay the problem before an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council. The President himself said he would notify Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Britain's Macmillan of the decision by telephone. Dulles agreed to have U.S. embassies pass the word to other NATO and Western powers (with some concern that the sievelike leaks among France's civil servants might somehow telegraph the U.S. punch...
...Canada's trade deficit with the U.S.: "The U.S. and Canada are not state traders," said Ike. "All the products of industry manufactured in the U.S. and sold abroad are sold through the enterprise of the private seller. These articles come to you in Canada only because of the desire of the individual Canadian consumer to buy a particular piece of merchandise . . . To try to balance our books once a month or once a year with every nation with which we trade would stifle rather than expand trade...
...from the Bosses. Periodically during the President's visit, his press secretary, James Hagerty, and Prime Minister Diefenbaker's press secretary, James Nelson, dropped the attending newsmen substantial tidbits of news. From one of the Ike-Dief sessions, they announced, came a decision to set up the Canada-U.S. Committee on Joint Defense. From another working session came an apparent solution to a problem that has irritated Canadians: the regulation of foreign sales of U.S.-controlled subsidiaries in Canada...
...issue flared bitterly last March when a Vancouver trading company purportedly representing Red China charged that the Ford Motor Co. of Canada, Ltd. had refused to consider an order for 1,000 cars because of the operation of the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. Last week's common-sense solution: to review any future cases in Washington and Ottawa, generally free Canadian companies to operate under Canadian rules...
...increases its commitment (now $2.8 billion) to the fund, other nations with strong economic positions, such as Canada and West Germany, will also have to follow suit. West Germany still has the original fund quota of $330 million, which was fixed before the country's astonishing industrial recovery. With $5.5 billion in accumulated foreign exchange and gold reserves, Bonn could well afford to double its quota in the fund. Since the German mark is as sound as the dollar, an increase in the German quota would greatly reduce pressure on the fund's U.S. dollars. The U.S. also...