Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yuan's low estate is dramatic evidence of Peking's virtual bankruptcy and the urgent need to raise hard currency to pay for 233.4 million bu. of Canadian grain ordered last month (TIME...
...Kennedys paid their state visit to Canada not knowing quite what to expect. Many Canadians are resentful of their nation's economic and cultural dependence on the U.S., and Canada strongly opposed U.S. intervention in Cuba. But the Kennedys soon melted the Canadian ice. At a formal state dinner for 100, every head snapped around as though at parade-ground command to admire the entrance of Jackie Kennedy in her pure white silk sheath. At the following reception for 500, her husband deftly fielded all topics, talked wheat with a Saskatchewan reporter, education with a college girl, trucks with...
...their horses through an intricate drill. President Kennedy, settling back in a rocking chair that Diefenbaker had provided for the occasion, talked informally with the Prime Minister. The substance of Kennedy's views came out in his address later in the day before the massed members of the Canadian Parliament, who banged their desks in a traditional salute for Jackie when she entered the gallery, and banged them again for the President when he appeared behind the floodlit lectern just below the Speaker's throne...
Common Cause. In conclusion, Kennedy reminded his Canadian hosts that like it or not, they were caught up in the same life-or-death fight as the U.S. "We should not misjudge the force of the challenge we face-a force that uses means we cannot adopt to achieve ends we cannot permit. Nor can we mistake the nature of the struggle. It is not for concessions or territory. It is not simply between different systems. It is the age-old battle for the survival of liberty itself...
President Kennedy's speech drew a roaring ovation from Parliament. He got no specific promise of action from any legislator or from Prime Minister Diefenbaker-but Kennedy had expected none. Canada is in no hurry to join the OAS. Still the President had done what Canadians have often accused the U.S. of not doing. He pointedly singled out Canada for his first foreign visit to assure the northern neighbor of U.S. concern for its problems and respect for its increasing importance. He also hoped to make sure that the Canadian government was sympathetic to the U.S. Administration. At week...