Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadian Bar Association President Walter S. Owen: "Perhaps the most important task of lawyers today is to help to build the international legal order on which the hopes for world survival so largely depend . . . Creating a satisfactory system of world law means raising legal standards and promoting as much uniformity as possible so that international investment and commerce and the free movement of people can be carried on in an atmosphere of confidence and security...
...economic development of friendly nations -and particularly in Canada's postwar boom. Since 1953, he said, for every dollar withdrawn from Canada as an investment profit, U.S. firms have reinvested more than $2 in Canada's long-term growth. They have paid $450 million yearly in Canadian income taxes, built up some of Canada's most profitable exports, e.g., nearly $1 billion in pulp and paper sales annually to the U.S. Said Kearns: "We have never regarded capital invested in Canadian enterprises as anything but Canadian in its participation in the national life...
...Kearns thought his argument would tranquilize Canadian concern, some sharp editorial retorts soon gave him reason to think otherwise. "That is the wrong tone to use, even with economic vassals," snapped the Toronto Star. "Canadians are perfectly aware that U.S. capital comes in here because this is a profitable country in which to invest, not for altruistic reasons. U.S. capital dominates many key Canadian industries. What this means is that the making of economic decisions affecting Canada lies far too often in non-Canadian hands." Said the Financial Post: "Canadians wonder whether they can call their country their own when...
...calmer reaction came from the Ottawa Journal: "If Mr. Kearns had taken the trouble to consult a few informed, responsible people, in Toronto, he would have avoided being 'shocked,' would have discovered that the Canadians who are crying havoc about U.S. investment are the sort of people who are always crying havoc about something and are not representative of Canadian opinion. Mr. Kearns then might have spared us his own excited talk...
Diario de Noticias reported that the Canadian passport U.S. Citizen Birrell had used to enter Brazil was not really false; it had just been altered to leave