Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fidel Castro was at economic war with one northern neighbor, he was having no problems at all with a second. In response to a newsman's question last week, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker said that "Canada has no intention whatsoever of imposing any embargo on Canadian goods in Cuban trade." The Cuban reaction could hardly have been happier. Cheered Havana's El Mundo: "In Canada there does not prevail the aggressive hysteria which blinds the United States." The Castro paper ran a cartoon showing Canada's sturdy arm breaking the "Yankee economic blockade" around...
Opening to the West. All along, while nationalizing U.S. property, Castro purposefully exempted Canadian holdings, even the five Canadian insurance companies that dominate 70% of Cuba's life-insurance business, with policies valued at $400 million. Two weeks ago, when he added Cuba's banks to the U.S. banks already nationalized, Castro again made an exception, left free only two financial institutions, both Canadian-the Royal Bank of Canada, with 24 branches in Cuba, and the Bank of Nova Scotia, with eight, totaling $100 million in assets. To his TV audience he explained: "All payment transactions are being...
...oriented economy going until it could switch to Iron Curtain suppliers. For their own reasons, Canada's government and businessmen were willing to go along-at least for the moment. Said the Toronto Globe and Mail: "Diefenbaker's statement has served notice to the world that Canadian trade policy is not made in Washington." As for the businessmen, President Ronald Kinsman of the Canadian Exporters' Association put it in a nutshell: "Trade is trade...
After a photographer's apprenticeship in Boston, Armenian-born Yousuf Karsh set up his own portrait studio in Ottawa because he yearned to photograph prominent men. Now a courtly 51, Karsh of Ottawa is as renowned as most of his subjects. Last week the Canadian capital paid the world's foremost portrait photographer the unusual compliment of an exhibition at the National Gallery...
Island off the Canadian coast. In the rest of this 143-minute film, Scriptwriter Schary (who also produced the picture) presents the future President's dramatic struggle against physical paralysis as the outward symbol of a heroic ordeal in which a great man's will was tempered and his character established...