Word: claxton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CLAXTON...
Fourteen hundred men of Canada's 27th Infantry Brigade filed down a gangplank at Rotterdam one morning last week and paraded through a cold drizzle to the Stadhuis (city hall). There, Defense Minister Brooke Claxton formally turned the brigade over to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Said Ike: "I know you will be worthy representatives of your great country in this endeavor, which is to secure the peace...
...troops were the second contingent of the 27th to arrive; the rest of the 6,500 will reach the brigade base at Hanover, West Germany, by mid-December. Seizing the chance to tell Europeans about Canada's growing NATO role, Claxton announced plans...
...hand was Defense Minister Brooke Claxton to bid the men bon voyage and to distribute a 30-page orientation booklet titled Off to Europe. Sample advice: "Don't be fooled by the cheap price and mild taste of French wines . . . Forget the fixed impression you have about European women. You can't take liberties with them ; that happens only in the movies ... If you behave decently, the people of Western Europe . . . will take new hope ... If you behave badly . . . you may ensure an eventual Communist triumph...
Canada this year is spending $300 million in the U.S. for defense equipment. The U.S. has been planning to buy less than $100 million worth of military supplies from Canada. Though Defense Minister Brooke Claxton recently said that "no two countries in the world have closer arrangements for their common defense," the unbalanced trade in military items has long been a thorny issue to officials in dollar-short Canada...