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...Gardiner's own farmer-dominated Saskatchewan the up-&-coming Socialist C.C.F., which both Liberals and Conservatives mortally hate and fear, has been winning many a convert among the disgruntled. Minister Gardiner's bacon deal might help stem the Left-wing tide in the part of the Dominion where it flows highest...
...Manhattan last week Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Leader M. J. Coldwell said he would like to see the Dominion join the Pan American Union. That made it all but unanimous with Canada's top political leaders...
...pronouncements of Socialist Leader Coldwell and his Rightist opposite numbers, the question of membership in the Pan American Union was still largely academic to most Canadians. A Gallup poll last week showed that of the few who had heard of the Pan American Union, 84% favored the Dominion joining it. Seventy-two per cent had never heard...
Nelles brought to Canada the Dominion's first two really modern (British-built) destroyers in 1932, next year became the first Canadian to wear a captain's stripes in his own country's service. In 1934 he was Commodore and Chief of the Naval Staff. Peace-minded parliaments gave him barely enough to buy paint for his ships, but he managed to keep his navy afloat, even made it grow...
They went into the Battle of the Atlantic with almost nothing. But soon the Royal Canadian Navy, backed up by the Dominion's high-speed shipbuilding program, was handling 40% of the convoy work on the North Atlantic. Last fall, when the tide turned in the Battle of the Atlantic, the R.C.N. and the Royal Navy sent 33 U-boats to the bottom...