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...Against Many? For Mr. King, in his 70th year, this meeting will present both an opportunity and a crisis. It is an opportunity for him to convert the other Dominions to his vision of the future: an all-embracing system of world security resting on the support of all states, large and small. In pledging Canada to such an ideal, and placing that ideal ahead of Canada's obligations to the Commonwealth, Mr. King set his Dominion out as the champion of small states and against a world dominated by a few great powers...
...flexing. They heard hopeful speeches (typical theme: Canadians "are tired of the hopeless old-line parties and at the same time they fear socialism"). They reaffirmed Social Credit's basic tenet: periodic "dividend" payments for all citizens. They decided to enter candidates in all constituencies in the next Dominion election. Their new name: National Social Credit Association. Their new leader: Solon Earl...
Viscount Cranborne, Dominions Secretary and Government Leader of the House of Lords, announced the impending operation at midweek, when he all but succeeded Anthony Eden as Foreign Secretary (see col. 3). He soon learned that he would have to wait awhile for a War Cabinet portfolio. But his words on the Charter carried full weight: "The Government are at present proposing an initiation of discussions with their Allies. . . . The Dominion Prime Ministers will be here in the near future and no doubt they will have something to say. . . .To anticipate these discussions by a unilateral declaration would not be helpful...
...over again. But no one seemed to know how. One solution that might appeal to the State Department would be to run a whole series of bilateral talks-for one thing, that would take at least all this year. But whether Britain, long on plans but short on Dominion support, would buy that compromise-or the U.S., long on plans and short on policy, suggest it-remained to be seen...
Canadian immigration authorities are checking on the records of "bird dogs," "bell cows" and "reloaders" who may have entered the Dominion from the U.S. Out in British Columbia, the Attorney General is investigating "dynamiters" and "foxes...