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Britain was ready to try again. Last week, in parallel broadcasts, Prime Minister Clement Attlee (from London) and Viceroy Lord Wavell (from New Delhi) tendered the Labor Government's new plan in fulfillment of its election promise to offer India Dominion status. Based on the abortive Cripps and Wavell Plans, both of which foundered largely on the failure of India's 256 million Hindus and 92 million Moslems to agree, the new plan promised self-rule (i.e., Dominion status) by degrees...
...Meantime the British Government will proceed independently with the drafting of a treaty to be concluded between Great Britain and the projected self-governing Dominion of India. As an earnest of its good intentions, Britain will publish a draft of the treaty before India starts to write her constitution...
...good many Canadians, the renewal of meat rationing was just so much gristle. Across the Dominion, butchers stomped into mass meetings, bellowed to Ottawa that meat was spoiling on their shelves...
...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
Canada's flag will probably be the Red Ensign.* Usage has made it the Dominion's unofficial flag; it was flown from the Parliament Building's Peace Tower on V-E and V-J day. And if Mr. King has his way (which is almost certain in a House of Commons consisting of 126 Liberals against 119 members in opposition), soon Canadians would no longer have to identify themselves in legal matters as British subjects; they would be simply Canadians...