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...world where there is little demand for men whose only training is as King-Emperor, he was technologically unemployable, an obsolete man. He might have liked to be Governor General of Canada, but there was scant chance of it-not so long as straitlaced Bachelor Mackenzie King was the Dominion's Prime Minister. Australia had already received his brother Gloucester. And the British were not likely to make David's Wally Vicereine of India. Perhaps France and conspicuous unemployment were inevitable...
...Dominion's War Assets Corp., charged with disposing of war surpluses, offered some 19,000 obsolete steel Army helmets at 49? each. Canadians were uninterested, even when WAC suggested that the helmets would make good flower pots, feeding bowls for pets, bird baths or hens' nests. It began to look as if the helmets would have to be junked...
...Indian independence silenced by the fiat of the British Raj that constitutional reform must wait till the war is won. Three years after Sir Stafford Cripps's mission, Hindus (the Congress party) and Moslems (the Moslem League) were still unable to agree on his plan for postwar Dominion status. They were also unable to agree with one another. But last week India was stirring uneasily...
Question of Independence. There was another thing, too. Canada wants it known that she is not tied to Britain's apron. Canadians persistently emphasize that their Dominion, while a member of the British Commonwealth, is a fully independent member. They want a seat of their own, and the freedom of action that would go with such a seat, on any world security organization that is set up. Would the Big Three agree...
While Washington last week hemmed & hawed over the problem of helping the world's devastated countries to reconstruct themselves, Ottawa launched its own scheme. Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley announced a $15,000,000 credit agreement with Czechoslovakia. It was the first loan under the Dominion's new Export Credits Insurance...