Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talky," said one elderly lady. "Every time I open the paper he has something to say, and always about different problems." "I've lived through two wars," said another, "and I pray every night that we won't have a third. I think we're wrong about this Cuba business, and we're making too many bombs." Why won't she vote for Meyer? "I don't know, I just disagree with...
...particular issues, which have been featured in the campaign, such as disarmament, aid to underdeveloped countries, Quemoy and Matsu, or Berlin. Only the possible menace of Fidel Castro and Mr. K seems to have aroused the voters, but even then the answer was usually abrupt--e.g. "the Russians," or "Cuba...
Castro's strategy was simple: with access to U.S. suppliers cut off, trade ties to Canada would be preserved as a means of getting some of the embargoed parts and materials needed to keep Cuba's U.S.-oriented economy going until it could switch to Iron Curtain suppliers. For their own reasons, Canada's government and businessmen were willing to go along-at least for the moment. Said the Toronto Globe and Mail: "Diefenbaker's statement has served notice to the world that Canadian trade policy is not made in Washington." As for the businessmen, President...
...amount of trade involved is tiny compared to the uproar. Only 300 Canadians live in Cuba, and Canada's exports to the island in 1959 amounted to less than 1% of its total exports-mainly newsprint, medicine, steel, copper tubing, codfish, malt and chemicals. Even this small export business had dropped: from $17.5 million in 1958 to $15.2 million in 1959, with 1960's first half showing a sharp dip to $4,800,000 v. $7,400,000 for the same period in 1959. Exports of newsprint fell from $2,600,000 to $999,000, salt codfish from...
There was also word that an "unofficial" Canadian trade mission has been in Cuba for several weeks and has landed orders for auto parts, electrical equipment and other industrial goods reportedly totaling...