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...Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade-would go to India to repeat and perhaps to better Cripps's 1942 efforts to reach an agreement with Hindus and Moslems on dominion status for India...
Ottawa well knew, and so did many another discerning Canadian, that the Russian search for scientific data in the Dominion was neither surprising nor reprehensible ; the best nations do it. To official Canada, the whole affair was purely domestic: some civil servants obviously had acted, if not treasonously, at least unpatriotically in giving away - or perhaps selling - atom-bomb data and other information. Unperturbed by international hubbub (and inexperienced in it) Canada concentrated on tidying up her own house, and ignored Moscow's roar for the time being (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Dominion Bureau of Statistics, usually devoted to facts, took a flyer in prophecy. It examined the Canadian birth and death rates, last week guessed that, barring war and relaxation of present immigration rules, by 1990 Canada would have a population of 15,000,000 (present population: about...
These were not ordinary arrests. They were part of one of the most shocking spy stories in Dominion history. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told part of the sobering truth in an unprecedented, 320-word statement: "Information of undoubted authenticity has reached the Canadian Government which establishes that there have been disclosures of secret and confidential information to ... a foreign mission in Ottawa. . . . The persons involved include some now employed or who have been employed in a number of [Government departments]." The rest of the truth was harder to pin down...
Operation Musk-Ox had set out to learn about this unknown country. The mechanized explorers of Musk-Ox would study the geology, meteorology and topography of the Dominion's upper reaches, the performance of snowmobiles (originally designed for the Allied invasion of Norway but never used), the suitability of new-type winter clothing and winter shelters. They would test the feasibility of supplying ground forces by air under Arctic conditions...