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This week the Dominion's juiciest diplomatic assignment was still going beg ging. At Lake Success, until a willing and acceptable man is found, the job of representing Canada would probably be filled by External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister, behind a screen of refrigerated secretaries, said nothing...
When the story first came out, in mid-December, Canadians considered it an isolated incident. But last week they were beginning to wonder. In Winnipeg, "Mother City" of the Dominion's 350,000 Ukrainians, a man who ought to know charged that what had happened to Mike Moskal and his friends had happened to most, if not all, of the 6,700 odd D.P.s entering Canada since April...
...States Affairs, last week saw a chance to get rid of some of the princely states that pimple India. In little Nilgiri, near the east coast, Hindu Congress Party members who live in towns on the plains have been trying to get rid of their maharaja and join the Dominion. But most of his subjects are broad-faced, pug-nosed aborigines, who fled to the eastern hills nearly 40 centuries ago when Aryans invaded India. These near-naked tribesmen came down from the hills on the warpath (at the maharaja's prompting, said Congress supporters...
...through with it. As laid out by President Truman, it called for the spending of $2,615 million by the U.S. in other Western Hemisphere countries in the 15 months ending June 30, 1949. Canadians hoped, with good reason, that it would mean enough U.S. dollars to solve the Dominion's foreign exchange troubles...
Least enthusiastic for all-out war against Zionists and the backers of partition was Trans-Jordan. Its little King Abdullah sees a chance to enlarge his dominion by adding to it the part of Palestine allotted by U.N. to the Arabs. Half of his 16,000-strong Arab Legion, trained, subsidized and led by the British, is already in Palestine. The British last week were dickering with him to take over the policing of the Arab zones of Palestine when the British withdraw. Some of his Arab neighbors (especially Syria, which resents Abdullah's aspirations to rule a Greater...