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Cabinet ministers were recalled from their holidays to consider a request from the U.N. for Canadian ground troops in Korea. After a three-hour cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent gave a summary of Canada's plans. The cabinet had decided to: < ¶Turn down the U.N. appeal for ground troops. ("The dispatch at this stage of ex isting first-line elements of the Canadian army . . . would not be warranted.") ¶ Send an R.C.A.F. transport squadron (up to ten planes) to help the U.S. airlift across the Pacific. The North Star planes, with crews and 200 ground personnel...
...Laurier House that Mackenzie King retired two years ago when he gave the Liberal leadership over to Louis St. Laurent and resigned the prime ministry. Although his doctor warned him that his heart was weak and he needed rest, the old Prime Minister turned resolutely to the task of writing his memoirs. But historians will have to finish the work. Last week, at 75, at his summer home outside Ottawa, death came to William Lyon Mackenzie King...
True to form, the Canadian Communists stepped up the beat on their peace drums. Stopping off to speak in Saskatoon on his way to the Calgary Stampede, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was angered by Communist pamphlets. In hot, high temper he cried: "We can't in this world expect rights to be respected merely because they are rights. We have to have strength to enforce respect. You don't get peace by talking about...
...party put tough young Laurent ("Eye of Moscow") Casanova in charge of the new effort. He sent organizers to Cherbourg to call dock strikes against the first ships bearing U.S. military aid; these are due to arrive in about a month...
...forthright statements of foreign policy ever made in the Canadian Parliament. In 90 minutes, he made it clear that the old Canadian policy of stringing along calmly with Britain and the U.S., developed and consistently followed by Mackenzie King, was no longer the rule under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Canada had some strong opinions of her own and she wanted policymaking partnership with the big powers. Said Pearson: "The U.S. must . . . recognize [Canada] ... as a cooperating partner, not as a camp follower...