Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks since he upset Canada's 22-year-old Liberal government in a form-shattering election victory, Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker has been one of the world's busiest statesmen. At a Commonwealth Conference in London, Tory Diefenbaker plugged hard for brisker Canadian-British trade, proposed that his fellow chiefs of government meet next in Canada; back in Ottawa, he presided over sessions of his brand-new Cabinet to chart Canada's new political course. Last week, in his first breathing spell since he took office, John Diefenbaker flew to home town Prince Albert...
...knotty problems are piling up on his agenda, and many of them are tied to Canada's relations with the U.S. To identify and examine such problems, the National Planning Association, a privately supported U.S. research agency, last week set up a committee of top-level U.S. and Canadian businessmen, educators and labor leaders for a thorough study. The committee is headed by Quaker Oats Co. Chairman Douglas Stuart, onetime (1953-56) U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and Montreal Lawyer Robert Fowler, president of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association. Among the likely points of focus for research...
Said one member of N.P.A.'s staff: "America, on the whole, has the attitude of a slightly dense, wholly confident husband who is positive that his wife is happy, even though he never listens to what she has to say and seldom takes her to dinner." Added Canadian Co-Chairman...
...million Ibs., and is expected to top 600 million Ibs. by 1960. The price of European and Japanese nickel, which U.S. firms have been forced to buy at up to $2.60 per lb., has dropped to about $1.05 v. Inco's U.S. and Canadian price of 74? per lb. In fact, with defense demands taking less of the nickel supply, the U.S. is now diverting to private firms the nickel Inco has already contracted to sell the Government. From now on, Inco will have to take its chance on the free market against growing competition...
Reporter Kinmond, a Canadian citizen and thus unaffected by the U.S. State Department's refusal to allow newsmen into Red China (TIME, May 6), found a "nation in a hurry." a land of often violent contrast, where one-story brick huts jostle jerry-built skyscrapers, contraception clinics adjoin pagodas, Russian-built air transports load cargo from peditrucks. And, despite the chauvinistic pride that leads Communist functionaries and editors to date all progress from 1949, he found that "selfcriticism is almost a national phobia...