Word: canadian-soviet
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Love in Bloom. Canadian-Soviet relations blossomed only after the Nazis attacked Russia. Before then, Canadian affairs were handled in London's Soviet Embassy. In October 1942 the Kremlin sent able Feodor Gusev as its first Minister to Canada, later sent him to London to replace Ivan Maisky as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. To Moscow went Russian-speaking Leolyn Dana Wilgress, one of Ottawa's ablest civil servants. While on Canada's Economic Mission to Siberia, Wilgress married a Russian, fitted himself to meet Russians on their own terms...
...Forty Canadian cities and towns have adopted Russian towns, pledged to send them clothing and hospital supplies. Even Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve has endorsed Russian relief drives. Soviet friendship has already paid off for Canada. A Soviet engineering commission visited Toronto recently and reportedly left specifications of a $25,000,000 order for hydroelectric equipment. In the works are long-term Canadian-Soviet trade agreements which Canadians hope will make the $25,000,000 order look like peanuts...
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