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Canada's young, yeasty and frankly Socialist C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) party gave Canadian financiers something more to worry about. It began to talk about nationalizing the Dominion's big life-insurance business ($7 billion in insurance in force...
Canada, first of the British Commonwealth nations to establish direct diplomatic representation abroad, last week became the first to be represented by four Ambassadors. Six weeks ago, the Dominion set a Commonwealth precedent by making Franklin Delano Roosevelt's friend, Minister Leighton McCarthy, the first Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Last week it upped the Canadian Ministers in the Soviet Union (Leolyn Dana Wilgress), Brazil (Jean Desy) and China (retired Major General Victor Wentworth Odium) to ambassador's rank...
...quite possible to bring these new groups closer to a neighboring Dominion and thereby interest the Dominion in the colonial group. In this way, instead of the Dominions being a show apart, so to say, having little or nothing to do with the Empire and taking very little interest in it, these regional Dominions will become sharers and partners in the Empire...
...exchange ship, the one that never came because at the last minute the Germans backed out of the deal. The Germans gave Cynthia the job of breaking the news to the men. Released last month, she had been a fortnight in England. Said Cynthia, as 800 British and Dominion and 14 U.S. wounded rode, stumped or walked with shattered arms in splints down the gangways of the Atlantis: "I simply had to come to Liverpool, but I didn't expect that terrific shout...
...from the lobby at precisely 2:30 p.m. Eight hours later-with a two-hour dinner intermission-they catch Speaker William E. Barnard's words ending the day's session. Although the broadcasts have long since lost their novelty, guesstimators swear that for big debates half the Dominion's radios pick up Australasia's most powerful station (2YA, 60 kilowatts...