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Plan, which would be effective until the granting of Indian independence or dominion status, is a modified Cripps Plan. Under the Cripps Plan, the Viceroy had complete control over defense and foreign affairs. Under the Wavell Plan, the Viceroy will also control finance. Under the Cripps Plan, the Assembly could not overthrow the Government by a vote of censure. Under the Wavell Plan, the Assembly can overthrow the Government and cause a change of Executive Council (Cabinet) on any issue except defense, finance or foreign affairs...
...from a graduate whose similar haziness about life in England was cleared up by a visit to Cambridge, Princeton University had an idea. It began conducting weekend courses for groups of British and Dominion servicemen and women stationed in the U.S. Last week the 15th such group left Princeton's campus after a three-day closeup of U.S. opinion, culture, labor, politics, hospitality. The general student reaction: the U.S. is easier to understand and much more likable than its press, radio and cinema have led foreigners to believe...
...been second to no nation in the fight against wartime inflation. Burly Donald Gordon made it official in Parliament last week, when he reported that his vigilant Prices Board had actually knocked down the Canadian cost-of-living index last year by .8. For the whole war period. Dominion determination had held living-cost increases to 18%. (The U.S. index rose 30% during the same period...
...Prime Minister had long ago laid down the Government's postwar policy on Japanese Canadians: they would be dispersed across the Dominion, never again be allowed to concentrate in British Columbia. Last week the British Columbia Security Commission, the federal agency in charge of Japanese Canadian affairs, went into details...
Outside the province, Ontario's upsy-daisy was important because the election it necessitates-probably to be held in May or early June-will be a straw-in-the-wind prelude to the Dominion-wide election due this summer. Certainly all parties will shoot the works in Ontario, aware that provincial victory will boost national chances...