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Canada's Dominion-wide election on June 11 was important to more than Canadians. Canada would be the first major belligerent to pass judgement on a victorious war government. The effects of the election might be felt in the British general election of July 5.* Canada would be the first important Allied power to answer: after war, what...
Saskatchewan's busy CCF Government was achieving socialism by capitalistic methods. Four months ago it took over the Dominion Electric Power, Ltd. (13 plants in Saskatchewan, seven in other western provinces) by buying control for $450,000. Last week Provincial Treasurer Clarence M. Fines and Natural Resources Minister Joseph L. Phelps revealed the rest of the power play...
Lady Astor, high-strung, American-born M.P., huffed, puffed and pleaded to no avail when Canadian MPs barred her from her London house, which had been requisitioned for Dominion overseas election headquarters. She was assured that she would be able to get in as soon-as the voting was over-nine days later...
There were other sparks flying to indicate what shape U.S. policy was gradually taking on the anvil of events. In Congress, a bill was introduced to give Puerto Rico-which has long demanded independence-the choice of three alternatives: independence, statehood or a new wrinkle, dominion status. And at a White House conference with Philippine President Sergio Osmena, an interested conferee was Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, who has repeatedly said the U.S. must keep some of the Pacific bases which its Navy...
...postponed. Cabled to London for Wavell's consideration was a broadly similar plan which also ruled out Pakistan. The plan was drafted by elderly, eminent lawyer Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and a group of Indian Liberals. Its main recommendations: 1) release of all political prisoners; 2) a new, Dominion-status constitution for India; 3) coalition governments in all provinces, with an all-Indian national coalition government...