Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undiluted socialism seemed a cure-all to many Canadian voters in the depressed '305. and the CCF quickly became the strongest third-party movement ever launched in Canada. But in the prosperous postwar years, socialism's appeal faded, and the CCF vote fell off sharply. Six months ago a committee of CCF theorists was appointed to chart a new course. The committee's report, called a "Declaration of Principles," recommended a sharp right turn toward a mixed economy, which would "provide increased opportunities for private as well as public-owned industry...
Despite the protests of old-line socialists, a pair of more practical-minded speakers put the case for the new CCF line. One was a convention visitor, British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman, who reminded his Canadian counterparts that Britain's Labor Party had already acknowledged the need for both private and public enterprise (TIME, July 23). Said Grossman: "Capitalism is not going to collapse." The other socialist plug for free enterprise came from Saskatchewan's CCF Premier Tommy Douglas, who could speak from experience as the head of the only government ever formed by the CCF. Shortly after...
Israelis demanded that they withdraw, two Canadian members of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, Major George Flint and Major Marcel Breault, went forward to investigate. Both were injured when they touched off an anti-personnel mine left over from 1948 war days. Next day shooting broke out on a nearby hillside where the Israelis had set newcomers to terracing farmland a few yards from the Jordan border. The U.N.'s Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death...
...soft touches for sports; they would have packed the Maple Leafs' ballpark for a dog show-especially one that got the magnificent ballyhoo laid down for last week's hoked-up "world heavyweight championship" squabble. The figures: that elegant gypsy, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, and Canadian Heavyweight Champion James J. Parker, otherwise known as the Saskatoon Statue...
...world champions, the man who took so much money out of Shelby. Mont, when Jack Dempsey beat Tommy Gibbons in 1923 that he almost broke the town. There was fat Jack Solomons of London, the ex-fishmonger, determined to give the brawl some real English class. There was a Canadian mining promoter named David Rush, a talented sport with an improbable aptitude for turning penny stocks into folding money...