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Ottawa's bureaucracy was not amused last week when a 15-year-old schoolboy satirized Canada's red-taped National Selective Service (the Dominion's version of the War Manpower Commission). Donald Sim, son of a Government official, wrote that he visited Selective Service headquarters in Ottawa and told a functionary...
...clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed bush jacket with the Field Marshal's insignia, and is off in his Daimler for another meeting of the Dominion Prime Ministers...
...expense ... of the universal"; 2) Canadians are strong Puritans and "Puritanism . . . dis-believes in the importance of art"; 3) Canadians live a disguised form of the frontier life where art plays second fiddle to the hockey game and whiskey bottle; 4) for all of Canada's Dominion status, the average Canadian is still colonial-minded - "an unwholesome state of mind in which great art is most unlikely to emerge...
...finger pointing north, the pedestal inscription: ''Your hinterland lies there." He became the busy-tongued champion of Huggins' Plan No. 1: to amalgamate the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland with the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, form one big (488,300 sq. mi.) Dominion in the British Commonwealth. That idea made him a Prime Minister...
...Other Dominion Prime Ministers talked of such complex matters as unified foreign policy, Dominion spheres of influence, but Sir Godfrey's aim was simple. He wanted only the right people to exploit a virgin land...