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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same. You say that the Right Hon. E. A. Lapointe might be Prime Minister of Canada "if he were British." As a Canadian, and therefore a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Mr. Lapointe would be the first to tell you that he was British. The people of English-speaking Canada do not doubt that he is British-in that sense. The fact that he has a French name, is of French race, and speaks the French language as his mother tongue, are not barriers in Canada...
...Canadian Prime Ministers since 1867 only French Canadian was Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1896 to 1911). British to the core, he spoke French with an English accent, English with a French accent...
...winkle to which the tank officer joco-grimly alluded is a snail served at English pubs. It is extracted with...
Czech Cavells. In London, former Czecho-Slovak President Dr. Eduard Benes predicted that the Prague executions will "play in Czech opinion the same part as the assassination of Nurse Edith Cavell played in English public opinion during the World War." In Washington, the Czecho-Slovak Legation half-staffed its flag in mourning, and Minister Vladimir Hurban cried that what happened in Prague "is further proof . . . that living space [Lebensraum] for the Nazi Germans means space for death [Todesraum] for the rest of the world...
...addition to the American history programs, the Radio Workshop is preparing special experimental broadcasts, one of them a script of the poetic drama "Inquest" by Theodore Spencer, visiting lecturer in English. Several members of the Workshop are working on individual script projects. Last spring the group produced and recorded a version of Sophocles' "Antigone" in collaboration with the World Wide Broadcasting experts...