Word: conway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House last night analyzed the present dilemma of Canada's major parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, stressing historical factors influencing their development...
...Conway began his discussion by explaining that the Government, under the leadership of prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker, was "tottering to its natural end" when a U.S. State Department note on nuclear policy precipitated the fall of the House of Commons...
Because of the age-old influence of the United States on Canadian polities, Conway contrasted the development of the two systems. "The United States," said Conway, "was an expression in the New World of the Liberal-Whig tradition in British politics, whereas Canada expressed the Conservative-Tory strain...
...Dominion of Canada was created in 1867 for two important reasons. "The first," explained Conway, "was the immense biological and cultural persistence of the French and the second was the English-Canadian reaction to the principles on which the America republic was founded." Thus, a deep anti-Americanism and a strong pro-Empire consciousness existed in Canada from its infancy...
Among the discontinued courses, Social Sciences 5 will be altered to become the new Soc Sci 3, "Selected Topics from Modern European History." Soc Sci 6 will be permanently eliminated because of the departure of John J. Conway, lecturer on History...