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...Canadian working in the U.S. I read "Canada Discovers Itself" with interest, enjoyment and inner laughter, for the piece portrays the feelings of most Canadians factually, humorously, and with candor. Expo 67 will accomplish in one giant stride what Canada has struggled to accomplish for so long: to become a fully recognized country on her own merits as a power in the world's arena...
...Candor Shortage...
...guard every man's right to speak," he says, "but we must defend every man's right to answer." His point is well taken-as far as it goes. He too often seems to forget that without right answers, the right to answer is pure propaganda. And candor from Washington is perhaps the biggest shortage in the Viet...
...candor seems to be replacing cant, and the picture should soon come more clearly into focus for Hanoi. "The enemy is only going to respond to pressure," Westmoreland told an interviewer before leaving for Saigon. "Once he realizes that we're no pushover, that his country is being drained when its finest manpower moves south, never to return, that his industry is being destroyed, that at the same time South Viet Nam is on the upswing, he will reassess his strategy. Once he realizes that we're ready, willing and able to continue this pressure, the facts...
...same time, there were signs that Washington's new toughness toward the enemy-and possibly greater candor in discussing its aims-may muffle the long-running domestic debate and even diminish the growing disconnection between those who think it a just and justifiable war and those who have argued that it should be ended at almost any price. In the Senate, Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton attacked both groups for indulging in "verbal overkill" in the debate, warning that "loose talk on the one hand, and deplorable, even illegal behavior on the other, both tend to heighten current misunderstanding...