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...longtime Canadian diplomat and Governor-General from 1952 to 1959; of pneumonia; in London. A devoted nationalist in a divided land searching for identity, Massey spent a lifetime at home and abroad championing the idea of Canada's "Canadianness"-a nation distinct from its U.S. good neighbor and Franco-British forefathers. In that cause, he gave an added dimension to the largely ceremonial office of Governor-General, using every ribbon-cutting, banquet, trip and state function to insist that "what we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes...
THERE IS a good deal of argument these days over the relevance and validity of the Munich analogy. Dean Rusk argues that the loss of South Vietnam might mean the first step toward global, nuclear war just as surely as the Franco-British capitulation to Hitler in 1938 hastened the outbreak of World...
...Purely Financial." Far more of a shock was Charles de Gaulle's decision to pull out of a Franco-British project to build an advanced variable-geometry fighter as a European counterpart to the U.S.'s swing-wing F-lll. As the British government publicly interpreted it, the move was made on "purely financial grounds," but the whole truth is that the French have already gone ahead and developed their own variable-geometry fighter, the Dassault Mirage 3G, which is due to make its maiden flight this month. Presumably undisturbed is the ambitious joint project to build...
...then, however, the Franco-British SST Concorde should be setting commercial aviation records. A full-scale mock-up of the droop-snoot plane was a big attention-getter at the air show. Larger than the Russian TU-144 SST and carrying about half as many passengers as the American version, the Concorde is scheduled to make its first flight on Feb. 28, 1968. The estimated price of the plane has already jumped from $7,000,000 to $21 million. Even so, the partners hope that when the 1,450-m.p.h. Concorde goes into commercial use in 1971, it will snare...
...breakthrough in European technology has come in private industry -- in large supranational firms, Heath said. As examples he pointed to Franco-British cooperation on the supersonic jet Concorde, and the joint effort of England and Belgium to develop atomic reactors. These are cases, he said, in which the scale of the undertaking makes it impossible for one nation to handle the entire load by itself...