Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lester Bowles Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs in the old Liberal government and now an ordinary M.P. Reason: word had just reached Ottawa that the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament had awarded "Mike" Pearson its Peace Prize−the first ever to go to a Canadian...
Conway is a serious student of British and Canadian history, and has a well-conceived vision of the Common-wealth. He is often commended for his "understanding of the transition from Empire to Commonwealth." His Ph.D. thesis was a study of "The Round Table," an important group of publicists and politicians which emerged from Oxford in the late 1890's and joined in an association in London. They were influential in settling the Boer War and in writing the new South African constitution...
Conway, who still thinks of himself as a Canadian, is now writing a book on the Commonwealth theory of sovereignty, which will be largely based on Canada's "constitution," the British North America Act. He has worked for the Progressive-Conservative Party, and his good friend and former canoeing partner, Davie Fulton, is Canadian Minister of Finance in the present Tory Cabinet...
Much of John Conway's personality can be understood in terms of his great love for the "emptiness" of the great Canadian Northwest. This area, where he has lived--canoeing, camping, and working at logging camps during the summer--is famed for its natural grandeur. But its quiet, vast peacefulness is nonetheless instinct with a sometimes awesome vitality...
From these early beginnings has grown a world-wide Anglican institution, comprised of British, American, and Canadian congregations, with missions in Scotland, Japan, India, and South Africa. The Society publishes three periodicals, numerous pamphlets and books, and has carried Episcopal missionary work to the remotest corners of the earth. Its headquarters in the United States are at the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, in Cambridge...