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Lots of Harmony. Last week the Indian girl, now a handsome 47-year-old diplomat, was still finding her destiny in dangerous company. When Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of India's Premier Nehru, and the new Dominion's first Ambassador to Soviet Russia, stepped out of a gleaming Air India DC-3 at Moscow's Vnukovo airport early last month, she got a big reception. Amid the welcoming crowd, portly K. A. Kochetkov, acting chief of protocol, presented her with flowers and showed her unctuously into a new Zis sedan...
Slowly but purposefully, the Dominion Government has been washing its hands of its 12,000 Japanese. They were whisked off to relocation camps after Pearl Harbor; in the two years since war's end, Ottawa has pressured nearly 4,000 of them into moving back to Japan, has discreetly resettled most of the others.*By last week, the Government was down to the last damned spot-a stubborn little band of 59 in a camp just south of Moose Jaw, Sask. The spot would not come...
...immovable 59 (most of them Canadian citizens) demanded that they be allowed to return to their prewar homes in British Columbia. But that was impossible. Early in the war, the Dominion Government confiscated and sold their homes and property, paid them only a small percentage of what the holdings were worth. Then B.C.'s provincial government got Ottawa to issue an order in council barring Japanese from a 100-mile-wide area on the West Coast. Ottawa acted in haste. It was beginning to repent...
Most of the summer-becalmed press joined in the protest. As the unseemly spot persisted, Saskatchewan's Government announced that the internees' fate was and would be in federal hands. That put the next move up to the Dominion...
...concessionaires had stocked 50 tons of hot dogs and 50,000 gallons of cold drinks. Toronto fathers & mothers hustled their children back from vacations a week early, to take in the big show before school opened. Sightseers showed up from all over the Dominion. No one was disappointed. The Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto was a record-breaker. On the opening day of the first exhibition since the war, 103,500 showed...