Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress last week was irritating President Eisenhower in areas beyond mere personal attack. He had been privately nettled at the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee for opening itself up to blame in the suicide of Canadian Ambassador to Egypt Herbert Norman (see HEMISPHERE); Ike tried to calm the Canadian uproar with words of sympathy. Nettling him also was continued congressional delay in an area where presidential prestige was at stake. After last autumn's Hungarian uprising, the President made outright and definite commitments to secure regular refugee status for about 25,000 Hungarians admitted to the U.S. as parolees. Warned...
...Canadian voters, who have long anticipated a general election this spring, finally got a date. The Liberal government headed by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent last week wound up its business in the House of Commons, dissolved Parliament, called an election for June...
...Liberals, the New York Yankees of Canadian politics, controlled 167 of the House of Commons' 265 seats at dissolution, rank as odds-on favorite to stretch their 21-year rule by another four-or five-year term. They are presiding over an economy throbbing with prosperity and boasting a $282 million budget surplus, their ninth surplus in ten years. In the last session of Parliament, the government cut taxes, increased old-age pensions and "baby bonuses," i.e., mothers' allowances. It put through a national hospital insurance act. But for their political heavy artillery, the Liberals still rely mainly...
...moved up to the Tory party leadership only four months ago. If Diefenbaker has trouble nicking the Liberals on straight parliamentary issues, he will face a powerful temptation to cash in on Canada's surging sense of national pride, campaign emotionally against foreign, i.e., U.S., influence in Canadian industry and culture...
Anchorman. Norman went on to serve as High Commissioner to New Zealand, and last August was assigned to Cairo as Ambassador to Egypt and Minister to Lebanon. In Cairo he served as Pearson's Middle East anchorman during the Suez crisis and the creation of the Canadian-inspired United Nations Emergency Force. He also handled Australia's affairs in Cairo after Canberra broke off relations with Gamal Nasser's Egyptian government...