Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relief of war-torn countries, Canada appropriated $77,000,000 for UNRRA. Last week, on the eve of an UNRRA convention in Montreal's Windsor Hotel, Dominion Delegate Brooke Claxton reported...
...Complete depression of the militarist class in Germany after the war" was called for yesterday by Dr. Herman Finer, currently Visiting Lecturer in Government here, since September 1942 Special Consultant on Post-War Reconstruction to the International Labor Office of the League of Nations at Montreal, and 23 years Reader in Public Administration at the University of London...
Blue and white posters plastered Montreal with the news: "Enfin, Houde est liberé." After holding him for four years, the Government had at last released Camillien Houde, four times mayor of Montreal. He had been interned (near Fredericton, N.B.) "for the safety of the state," because, as mayor, he told French Canadians not to register for the draft...
When he stepped into Montreal's C.N.R. terminal last week, 10,000 people surged forward to welcome him with flowers and posters saying: "Bienvenue, Camillien Houde!" (Welcome, Camillien Houde!). Hoarsely they sang Il a gagné ses é paulettes, French Canadian equivalent of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Houde burst into a torrent of French: "I believe that someone would have preferred to see me back in a dress suit, lying in satin, rather than back alive...
Patiño was last reported to be riding out the Bolivian blow in Montreal. Hochschild was rumored to be about to fly to Chile. His promise to leave Bolivia may have been the condition of his release. Only Aramayo would be left in Bolivia. Last week Señora Aramayo, her lips shut tight, arrived by plane in Buenos Aires...