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Canada has no single composite character like the U.S.'s "John Q. Public." The Dominion's "average man" is really two men: English-speaking "Jack" and French-speaking "Jacques." Last week a summary of all Canadian Gallup Polls taken up to Aug. 16, 1943 (since Dec. 2, 1941) compared Jack's thinking on major issues to Jacques'.* Result was probably the clearest short delineation of Canada's dual character yet published. Sample comparisons...
Canada's 19th Parliament reassembled at Ottawa this week for its fifth session, hankering to know the best kept secret in the Dominion: the date of the next general election. It was a secret because only one man knew it-Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...born (North Dakota), superwealthy Mr. McLean lives in Merrickville, Ont., is head of the Dominion Construction Corp. of Toronto. Last October he staggered gaily through two wards of Toronto's Christie Street Hospital, gave returned soldiers fistfuls of bills ranging from $50 to $200, ended by tossing a couple of thousand dollars on the floor...
Smuts In Translation. South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts last November proposed just such Dominion cooperation to "tidy up" the Commonwealth and Empire. Canberra had translated his doctrine into a dynamic program. Said John Curtin: "This conference is ... of deep significance to the whole structure of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...this was in preparation for the day when Britain (in return for more than a billion dollars in Lend-Lease) will send two cruisers and possibly two escort carriers to the Dominion's navy. Another of Percy Nelles' hopes had been fulfilled...