Word: canada
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Kiwanis: 252,942 (238,406 U.S.) in 4,504 clubs, U.S. and Canada...
Frankness, said the President of the U.S. last week to the Canadian Parliament, "is a measure of friendship." By that measure, relations between Canada and the U.S. had rarely moved on a friendlier level. Dwight Eisenhower bluntly defended some U.S. policies that had offended Canadians; on other points he offered significant concessions. But the major achievement of President Eisenhower's visit was simply the warm and easy relationship that he and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker of Canada developed in three days of close association...
...Dief settled themselves in chintz-covered chairs, and for an hour and 35 minutes went over the problems of trade, tariffs and joint defense that they had agreed to discuss. Sitting in with their chiefs were Dulles and External Affairs Chief Sidney Smith, U.S. Ambassador Livingston Merchant and Canada's Ambassador to Washington, Norman Robertson...
...wheat disposal: some wheat giveaways, said the President, have in time of famine saved the starving from death, while soft-currency sales have raised economic standards in the purchasing countries and thus "enlarged the markets for all." Barter sales, admittedly damaging to Canada in some instances, have been largely eliminated...
...import restrictions: heavily criticized in Canada, the restrictions were aimed to strengthen the U.S.'s defenses by encouraging domestic exploration for oil, were drafted to minimize their effect on Canada (other U.S. officials said that quotas have had no effect on Canadian oil sales...