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...Canadian Government was delighted. But it was less interested in the opening of new gold mines than in the possibility of increased postwar employment in the gold fields. In the peak year (1941), 33,500 men worked in the Dominion's gold mines. Said Deputy Mines Minister Charles Camsell last week: "The gold mines will employ 67,000 men at the very minimum soon after the war ends...
...relief of war-torn countries, Canada appropriated $77,000,000 for UNRRA. Last week, on the eve of an UNRRA convention in Montreal's Windsor Hotel, Dominion Delegate Brooke Claxton reported...
Navy Minister Angus Lewis Macdonald, a lean Maritimer, slumped in his leather chair and studied the ceiling in Ottawa's press gallery. Then he sprang the news: back in 1941 the Dominion Government had committed itself to a Navy of at least 9,000 men after the war. Minister Macdonald himself thought a force of 15,000 would be "more likely ... [to] satisfy Canadians," hoped the nation would keep two cruisers, two carriers and eight destroyers in postwar fighting trim, with lesser craft to match...
Politics First. Shrewd Politician King now saw that he had no chance of getting what he wanted from a Dominion-provincial conference. He waited until an eleventh hour before Parliament adjourned, then let off his bombshell-there would be no conference. He blamed "the attitude of the Premier of Ontario." Cried flabbergasted Mr. Drew: "An alltime high in pure unadulterated hypocrisy...
...keep on calling the British Empire. Examining India, the film forthrightly includes shots of native police wielding their cudgels on a riotous city mob. But it also looks at schools, hospitals, factories and irrigation projects, asserts that India has benefited from British rule and may gradually win full Dominion status. Further glimpses of air-minded Canada, industrially ambitious Australia, contentedly agrarian New Zealand, rich, up-&-coming South Africa, lead M.O.T. to conclude that old loyalties will be maintained (along with new ones to the U.S.), old grievances will be resolved, the British Empire will prosper and endure...