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...King's Money. Socialist Premier Douglas had given Ottawa a good reason to remember that precedent. He threatened to welch on a $17,500,000 debt. On the joint guarantees of the Dominion and Saskatchewan Governments, Canadian banks had advanced money so that Saskatchewan's farmers could buy seed after the 1937 drought. It was Saskatchewan's obligation to collect the money. Socialist Douglas proposed to collect only 50% of the principal from the farmers, give the Dominion a provincial I.O.U. for the balance. And to the Federal Treasury, which already holds some...
What Premier Douglas forgot was that until the Socialists took over, the Federal Government of Mr. King still had the last word. If Saskatchewan ran out on her obligations, the Dominion could recoup by withholding Federal grants...
...chairman, the delegates selected a Canadian, shrewd, friendly Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, the Dominion's Minister Plenipotentiary...
...said, though he admitted that he was purposely understating the figures. Britain still holds title to the Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers Puncher and Nabob, but last week Britain was rigging two cruisers to go to Canada's Navy as gifts. Fifty smaller ships were building at home in Dominion yards...
...impatient Canadians found themselves living among Britons whose sons were fighting all over the warring world. The old joke about Britons fighting to the last Colonial, Dominion or Allied soldier fell very sourly on Canadian ears...