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Britain had offered India self-government before, but never with such conviction, never with so few strings. If Indians could decide among themselves the kind of constitution they wanted, Prime Minister Attlee last week promised them an immediate choice between dominion status and full independence...
...conciliatory to the Russian Government ("I hope we can establish the friendliest relations"). That done, he charged Russia with some unfriendly business. Russia, he said, was making Canada "a base for securing information of great importance to the United States and Great Britain." Inside the Dominion, he said, Russian infiltration was approaching fifth column proportions. He said: "It was as serious a situation as had arisen in Canada at any time...
Last week, while the U.S. Congress higglehaggled over a proposed $3.75 billion loan to the British (see INTERNATIONAL), the Dominion agreed to lend Britain a billion and a quarter dollars as soon as the Parliaments of both countries ratified the deal. Terms: repayment in 50 years, at 2% interest, beginning in 1951. In addition, Canada canceled a whopping British debt: $425,000,000 incurred when Canada housed and trained British flyers during the war under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Moreover, Canada agreed to settle, for $150,000,000, all big & little "known & unknown" claims that resulted from an intermeshed...
...trading posts that stretch from Labrador to the Mackenzie basin, the company needed about 60 more men with Rupert Tinling's tastes. Last week, in Dominion newspapers, the company advertised for them. At Winnipeg 300 young Canadians and Newfoundlanders quickly filed applications for places with the "Company of Adventurers" that since 1670 has been "trading into Hudson's Bay." Accepted applicants will follow the sort of life already begun for young Tinling, who is destined for a post on Baffin Island, possibly Arctic Bay at the northern...
...Look Now, But ... In the wake of secrecy came such cloak-&-dagger speculation as the Dominion had never known. It spouted wherever people gathered. Headlines and stories dripped hysteria...