Word: canadians
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MOST U.S. citizens regard Canada with an inattentive but warmly sentimental friendship ("They're just like us!") which Canadians find exasperating. Last month Canadian irritation was sharpened by a U.S. Senate report questioning the loyalty of Canadian Diplomat Herbert Norman, Ambassador to Egypt. It turned to nationwide anger when Norman threw himself to death from a Cairo rooftop. Then Canada's own government confirmed part of the subcommittee's assertions. Anger died away, and questions crowded in. Was Norman really a Communist Party member during his student days? Was the Canadian government aware of the extent...
...Parliament. The Social Credit party, a depression-born agrarian movement that turned right with prosperity, now controls the governments of Alberta and British Columbia, plans a major push in Eastern Canada this year to build up its Parliamentary bloc of 15. All of the opposition is encouraged by one Canadian political trend. Of the six provincial governments controlled by the Liberals as recently as 1944, four have been unseated...
Assured by External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson that Canadian security checks gave a "clean bill of health" to Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, Canadians last week turned hotly angry with a U.S. Senate subcommittee that released evidence of Norman's Communist leanings in the 1930s. Politicians, editors and many others blamed the subcommittee for Norman's suicide leap from a Cairo building a fortnight ago. Then at week's end, harassed "Mike" Pearson admitted under intensive questioning in the House of Commons that "Mr. Norman, as a university student many years ago, was known to have...
Release of the committee report stirred the Department of External Affairs to protest publication of "irresponsible allegations" against Norman. After Norman's suicide, the department followed up with a stiffer note demanding assurance that security information supplied by Canadian agencies would not be released by U.S. agencies without Canada's permission. The plain presumption was that some part of the evidence against Norman had come from the Canadian government. But on this point, too, Pearson had to back down. In Parliament he admitted that the Senate subcommittee had not used Canadian sources...
...Canada for funds and scholars for another international seminar, endorsed by the sultan, this summer. Subject of the second priory conference: education. Ten students from the U.S. will attend the seminar under partial State Department sponsorship, and professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Fordham have agreed to come. Sixteen Canadian students have enrolled, and most of the countries represented last year will send delegations...