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Meanwhile the Viceroy, Viscount Wavell, appointed the Executive Council which is to take over next month from the present "caretaker" government, pending India's full dominion status. Five of the 14 seats were reserved for Moslems, but since Jinnah's Moslem League has refused to participate, Wavell appointed nonLeague Moslems. One of these, Sir Shafa'at Ahmad Khan, who clung to his British title and resigned from the League three weeks ago, was attacked apparently by co-religionists at Simla at week's end, stabbed seven times, hospitalized...
...Canadian Government decided to forgive & forget. In the House of Commons last week Defense Minister Douglas Abbott announced that henceforth the Dominion's 15,858 draft-dodgers, absentees and deserters would be exempt from arrest or prosecution. There was one exception : the order would not apply to absentees and deserters who are still overseas. To anti-conscription Quebec the amnesty brought immense relief: most of the delinquents hiding out at home are Quebeckers...
...Dominion Government it was a ticklish problem. Last week Fisheries Minister Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges pointed to the difficulty. Ten affidavits received from masters and mates of fisher men told of damage done but had not said what foreign trawlers had done it. Moreover, the Quero Bank was outside Canada's three-mile limit...
...September 1947 occupancy, near but not in a big city. He hasn't the least idea where to find them. All he has is a president (himself), a plan (the St. John's idea, with variations)-and $4,500,000. This tidy endowment came from the Old Dominion Foundation, set up five years ago by young aluminum heir Paul Mellon, who enrolled in St. John's at 33, when he already had degrees from Yale and Cambridge. St. John's itself has only a $130,000 endowment...
...lies in something no tourist can miss-the swarms of children that play about the old outdoor ovens and the creaking, great-winged windmills. Quebec's birthrate, which has long outstripped the rest of Canada's, may some day make the French Canadians the majority in the Dominion. The habitant calls it the "victory in the cradle." Time, and the long winter nights, are on French Canada's side...