Word: canadians
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...English Canadians were boiling. Pearson's government has only recently begun to ease the strains between English and French Canada and work out a new, delicate balance by giving the French Canadians a greater voice in Ottawa and in their own provincial affairs. After a four-hour Cabinet meeting, Pearson issued a statement acidly reminding De Gaulle that Canadians are not in need of liberation since they are free (at least as free as the French, he might have added). "Certain statements by the President," the Pearson statement continued, "tend to encourage the small minority of our population whose...
Grandly Aloof. Many Canadians demanded stronger words, but the language was tough enough. Through his aides, De Gaulle announced that the Canadian statement was itself "unacceptable," canceled his trip to Ottawa and flew back to Paris...
There, most newspapers were just as hard on him as the Canadian press and public had been. "The bad manners of General de Gaulle may shock," said the usually pro-Gaullist Paris Presse-L'lntransigeant. "They should not surprise." De Gaulle remained grandly aloof. "There is no De Gaulle problem," said a presidential spokesman, "but a Canadian problem." The government claimed that the Canadian visit was a total success since it focused world attention on a Canadian problem too long submerged and glossed over. "I could not have done otherwise," DeGaulle confided to an aide after his return...
...provides a chance for the world to take inventory of man's progress. Back in 1900, Paris showed Rodin and all those boys, so we felt that in 1967, we owed it to contemporary artists to show what they could do." Canada's Expo corporation commissioned 40 Canadian sculptors to design $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to fill the central promenades and the Canadian and theme pavilions; Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more than 15 sculptors. All are Canadians except for the U.S.'s Alexander Calder, whose gigantic...
Harvard's opponents in the heat were Argentina and the highly-touted Canadian crew from the University of British Columbia. The Canadians, who captured the Gold Medal at the Pan-American games four years ago in Brazil, finished more than a length behind the Crimson last night...