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...other 20th Century heroes. The black-rimmed eyeglass, which he carries on a thin ribbon around his neck, is a gentle anachronism. Above all, his dates seem wrong. For it was at the height of the Victorian era, when the atom appeared almost as indestructible as Britain's dominion of the waves, that Karl Heinrich Marx died...
...year-old Prime Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* By a peaceful act of Britain's Parliament, Ceylon-like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India and Pakistan-had become a sovereign dominion of the British Commonwealth...
There was much to-do in Washington about Canada's buying of U.S. steel, because exports to all other countries are strictly controlled while the Dominion enjoys its preferential position within the U.S. economic union. Some Senators suspected that Canada fabricated its import of steel into consumption goods for un controlled export. Replied a high Canadian official: "It's just childish to talk about lack of controls." Canada has its own, just as tough as the U.S. brand. Of the Dominion's steel exports last year, he said, 86% was in ships and machinery needed to rebuild...
...used until he succeeded his father as the Marquess of Salisbury ten months ago). He resigned as Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (along with his boss Anthony Eden) in protest against appeasement of Italy in 1938. Two years later he returned to office as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs...
...from Ottawa to London and Oslo; a few sparks were even observed in Hollywood. In Prague, her photograph was printed in local newspapers 17 times in three days-Rita Hayworth, in Prague recently, got her picture in the paper only eight times. Back home in Ottawa, where a whole Dominion gurgles appreciatively every time Barbara Ann winks an eye, the wheels of government once stopped while the Canadian House of Commons adopted a resolution saying that it approved everything about...