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Canadian Communism sorely needed new and persuasive friends. The party's influence has waned steadily since the uncovering of the Russian spy ring in 1946, when Soviet espionage agents in the Dominion government were linked to the Canadian Communist Party. The Communist vote in last year's federal election dropped to 32,623 (from a peak of 111,892 in 1945). Red leadership has been mainly wiped out in Canada's labor movement. What was obviously wanted was a new face to give the party a kindlier look and dispel the aura of treachery that has hung...
...Washington jumped from 1,700,000 to 2,500,000 between 1940 and 1950, Oregon from 1,000,000 to 1,600,000. For the first time, the Northwest, risen from the raw wilderness in little more than a century, seemed to be within range of becoming an industrial dominion, rather than a mere outpost of Eastern manufacturing and finance...
...Planning in a Free Society" is the topic of a conference to be held by the Student League for Industrial Democracy from 2 to 6 p.m. today in Emerson D. M. J. Coldwell, a Canadian Common-wealth Federation member of the Dominion Parliament and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, are featured speakers...
...seize complete power in his own country, then to reach out for the world. His natural advantages in addition to his ruthless cult of power are exceptional: charming good looks, a handsome figure, an ingratiating personality, a lucid and imaginative intelligence. But the Governor sees far beyond mere political dominion. He intends to be venerated as a god; he is training prisoners to be his disciples...
...huge crystal chandelier glittered above the pearl-grey top hats of diplomats, the snow-white Gandhi caps of Congressmen, and the flaming turbans and fezzes of princes in the marble rotunda. On the great throne where viceroys once sat, perched birdlike Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, retiring Governor General of the Dominion. Beside him on a smaller throne was the President-elect, in black achkan (coat) and tight white churidar (trousers). Prasad's timid wife Rajbanshi sat near by, looking bewildered and frightened...