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Member Marquis objected to Canada's classification as a Dominion. He proposed: edit the title to identify His Majesty specifically as "King of Canada...
...External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. Said he: the King's title is out of date because "it does not make any distinction between the condition of those lands beyond the seas whose people have attained autonomous self-government, and the colonies which are still lands under dominion." He promised to see what could be done, but reminded the House of Commons that for any change the consent of other members of the British Commonwealth of Nations would be needed...
...much rather forget today (the kind of "terribly sophisticated stuff you do when you're 20, when you know everything that goes on in hotel bedrooms"). At 19, he settled on radio, wrote 250 dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., ! became a smash hit with Dominion listeners...
Most Canadians still have no idea what the Pan American Union is. The others ask: What has it ever done? A majority of the Dominion's people still look to London and are likely to oppose any entangling alliance which may weaken the bond with the British Commonwealth. French Canadians want no part of Latin America's troubles. Orderly Canadians regard Latin Americans as Latin folk given to turmoil and revolution...
Alone among the Dominion's leading newspapers, the Montreal Star supported Good Neighbor Vandenberg: "Many of our interests run with those of the union. We weaken our position by our lack of membership." The Government long ago decided that it would not occupy the 22nd chair until the people of Canada prodded it, and last week there was little prodding. The Ottawa Journal epitomized the Dominion's attitude: "Wouldn't it be better for us to stand aloof-working with nobody in particular, but the friends...