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...first Soviet Ambassador to Canada flew into Edmonton last week. His five-day flight from Moscow reminded air-conscious Canadians that: 1) the Soviet Union is a neighbor second only to the U.S. in importance to Canada; 2) Russia shares with the Dominion control of the globe's strategic northern...
...Parliament's gilt-crested Royal Gallery last fortnight, when King addressed members of the Houses of Lords and Commons. He had worked and reworked his speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of his view that each Dominion must be free to go its own way within a loose Commonwealth framework. But it was no orator's triumph; Mackenzie King's drone had its usual soporific effect on his audience...
...news was bad for Canada, worse for the U.S. Like a modern Joseph, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics warned: Canada's once-plentiful hoard of feed grain (oats and barley) had been "severely trimmed" by heavy domestic demand, exports to the U.S. Next year there will probably be little enough for Canadian livestock, let alone the U.S., which needs all the Canadian feed...
After lunch, usually with old friends, an occasional glass of sherry or a mild wartime beer, Jan Smuts hurries back to his hotel. There, until tea time, he pores over documents, writes longhand memos and orders on war, peace, empire. By 5:30, the only Dominion Prime Minister in Britain's War Cabinet is ready for a conference with Winston Churchill and the little group of high & mighty Britons who run the domain on which the sun never sets...
...Congress, the British and Dominion Parliaments, the world's airlines had a say coming. The whole business was still in the doubletalk stage...