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Last week Canada spent more than nickels in a hands-across-the-border "thank you." Through nine whoppingly successful victory loans, 50 Hollywood stars had toured the Dominion, had made seven film shorts and 37 radio transcriptions. In a gesture of gratitude, Canada took over the pale green sunroom (for cocktails) and the green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders...
...wartime years many a good Canadian had been breaking the Federal gambling laws-in church halls, social clubs, athletic arenas, countless office buildings. Prosecuting authorities had always looked the other way: the gambling had been in "a good cause." The millions of dollars painlessly extracted in Dominion-wide lotteries, raffles and bingo games had bought milk, food, clothing, and even planes for beleaguered Britain...
From the days when their forebears followed John Cabot to carve a rocky cornerstone for Britain's overseas empire, Newfoundlanders have been a hardy, God-fearing, independent people. Their neighbors in the Dominion of Canada have long reserved a place for them as the tenth and easternmost province, but the islanders have always elected to go their...
Conceivably they could vote to retain Commission of Government, to join Canada or link with their newly appreciated neighbor, the U.S. Best guess: a start on the long road back to full self-governing Dominion status, which had long been their pride...
...snubbed by a colonial cousin last week. The Union of South Africa, leaning toward the U.S. rather than the British pattern, announced that it would experiment with radio advertising. Now dividing its air time between non-commercial "A" and "B" programs-one in English, the other in Afrikaans-the dominion will build new transmitters in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth for a new "C" network open to advertisers. The network hopes to combine BBC's well-tailored decorum with American money-making methods, will carefully consider the sponsor's product before signing a contract. Probable...