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Meanwhile, at Ottawa, the members of His Majesty's Canadian House of Commons were listening to the Hon. Hugh Guthrie, M.P., first lieutenant of the Dominion Conservative Party...
...would think that Five-Power Conference in London was a Six-Power Conference, or goodness knows what!" stormed he. "What is the Defense Minister of this Dominion [Col. Hon. James Ralston] doing at this moment as our representative at that Conference? Why should we be represented? We are gradually being drawn into interference with the affairs of Europe. We are posing as a nation, when we are not a nation...
...thus repudiating Canada's nationhood, Mr. Guthrie spoke of course as a member of the Opposition. The Canadian Government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King takes exactly the opposite view, holds that "dominion status" is substantially "nationhood," makes every effort to parade this fact by establishing diplomatic legations abroad...
...first of these visiting scientists is Dr. J. S. Plaskett, director of the Dominion Observatory at Victoria, B. C. On April 9 Plaskett received the Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, at which time he addressed the Academy on the subject of the Gases in Interstellar space. Dr. Plaskett has also been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal As tronomical Society for his researches in the rolation of the Galaxy. His son is Professor H. H. Plaskett of the Harvard Observatory staff. Dr. Paul ten Bruggencate, professor of Astrophysics in the University...
James Henry Scullin, the hard-jawed Laborite who became Prime Minister of Australia on a platform pledging protection for the Dominion's "infant industries," fulfilled his pledge last week with a wallop staggering to foreign (including English) exporters...