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Nearby, strategic Ceylon also moved closer to independence last week. London announced a new constitution which will bring Ceylon to the "threshold of Dominion status," with self-government, except in defense and foreign affairs. But across the Bay of Bengal the British would promise Burma nothing more than a new election and broader popular government before June 1947, "if all goes well...
...controversial Dominion-provincial conference, one of his biggest reasons to stay at home, was now ended. More importantly, London, which had been trying to get Mr. King overseas for an "Imperial Conference," had changed its tune. It was now calling the current London meetings of the Empire's prime ministers merely "consultations." And it had decided not to limit conversations to Empire subjects such as trade and defense, which Mr. King did not want to discuss. It had broadened the agenda to include the problems of the atom bomb and Germany, which Mr. King did want to discuss...
...truth was that Canada's King was not at all interested in conferring about defense or trade or anything else with the other members of the Empire. For one thing, he was busy enough at home. Parliament was in session. There were explosive Dominion-Provincial differences to be ironed out. And why should he go? To discuss trade? Canada already knew where she stood: she would help Britain, her best customer, back to stability with a loan of $1,250,000,000 and with urgent food shipments. Defense? Canada would, if need be, discuss that vital problem with...
...Dominion Bureau of Statistics recorded a few matters of fact...
Boston's beleaguered fisherfolk looked uneasily toward Canada. Last week the Dominion's shipments of cod fillets to the U.S. ran almost neck-&-neck with those sliced from Boston catches. Week before, Canadians dumped more cod on Boston markets than were landed at the sprawling Fish Pier by the city's own boats. Reason: a three-month-old labor dispute had tied up the big steel trawlers of eleven of Boston's fishing companies, allowed only the smaller draggers to operate...