Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shadow of Ottawa's National War Memorial one morning last week, three little Canadian boys gravely examined the card on a wreath just placed there by a visitor from the U.S. "What's it say?" asked one. An older passer-by read it for them. "It says," said this man, "'the President of the United States.'" Then he added quietly: "Bless his heart...
Dwight Eisenhower's first Canadian visit in five years drew few such baldly emotional responses from Ottawans, who take a certain capital dwellers' pride in public impassivity before distinguished guests. But as the three days of speechmaking, banqueting and wreath laying wore on, one thing became clear: they liked Ike. Canadians esteem forthrightness. And the rankling, remediable grievances between good neighbors Ike discussed with a reasonableness and a courage unmistakable to his hosts (see HEMISPHERE). With his frankness, the President opened a new corridor of cordiality in U.S. relations with its next-door neighbor to the north...
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...
...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...
...Tariffs: since 1934, the U.S. has gradually reduced tariffs, expects to continue; of "about a dozen" tariff increases granted under escape-clause provisions, only one has materially affected Canadian exports...