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Oddly enough, Stalin, Bertie McCormick and Henry Wallace all regard the Empire as peace's public enemy No. 1. Disraeli, who should have known, said: "No Caesar or Charlemagne ever presided over a dominion so peculiar." Attlee's Empire, governed largely by anti-imperialist Socialists and inhabited largely by fiercely independent "dependent peoples," is a lot more peculiar than Disraeli...
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...wage and salary controls were dropped by the Dominion Government last week. They had been so badly battered in six months of strikes and increases granted by War Labor Boards that abandonment was more or less of a formality. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Mackenzie King shrewdly made what political capital with labor he could out of it by making the announcement while in Quebec City for the Liberal gathering (see below...
...scene was the ballroom of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, the province without whose support no party can expect to win in Canada. The occasion: a dinner honoring External Affairs Minister (and Justice Minister) Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Quebec's top-ranking politician in the Dominion Parliament. While some 800 party big& littlewigs whooped it up from the floor. Prime Minister King, as a gesture to Quebec, spoke ten minutes in French before switching to English. He pleaded with Minister St. Laurent to drop his intentions to retire. (The Minister would probably agree.) Then, after some pats...
...shall find") had sprouted 1,000 adult study clubs with 10,000 members. With adult education came co-op stores, farm and fish producer groups. Impressed, St. F.X. set up a special extension department to carry on the work, put Dr. Coady at the head of it. The Dominion Government picked Dr. Coady to organize the badly exploited Maritime fishermen, some of whom got as little as $75 a year in the hungry '30s. He started the United Maritime Fishermen, saw it grow into the world's largest producer of lobsters...