Word: heeney
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...thrust his face close to the reporter's. "I'm not going to stand here at this time to make a statement about Canada," he said, "and have a question like that shot at me." Then he strode furiously to his plane, leaving Canadian Ambassador Arnold Heeney behind. By the time he arrived in Ottawa, the Secretary had recovered his temper. Said he: There seemed to be no reason why the documents shouldn't be published, so they were...
Canada's Ambassador to Washington, Arnold Heeney, last week tried a new approach to win support for lower U.S. tariffs and fewer restrictions on Canadian exports. Speaking to a convention of the Investment Bankers Association of Amer ica at Hollywood, Fla., Heeney passed lightly over Canada's case for increased trade, instead stressed the self-interest of U.S. investors in Canada's prosperity. "Whether or not Americans realize it," he said, "they have acquired an important stake in Canada's foreign trade...
...investment stake in Canada now amounts to more than $9 billion, Heeney pointed out, and most of this money is invested in resource industries (e.g., mines, oil wells, timber), which depend heavily on U.S. sales. "I need hardly point out that all these commodities enter very substantially into our foreign trade," Heeney told the bankers. "For that reason, those of you who have invested in Canada have a common interest with Canadians. The dollars you have sent across the border will be able to do their work only if Canada can continue to trade freely with the United States...
Five hours after the air compromise was announced, U.S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt was threshing over a brand-new problem in Ottawa with ruddy-faced Arnold Heeney, Canada's Under Secretary of State for External Affairs. The new dispute centered around the proposal to ship 100 million bushels of wheat to Western Germany and Japan this year under the 38-nation International Wheat Agreement. Since the grain will be paid for in U.S. dollars, the U.S. took the view that it should be U.S. wheat, of which there is a surplus. Canadian spokesmen argued that the object...