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...with authentic, undramatized accounts of a sensitive, scrupulous literary journeyman's life and with brilliant sketches of public men in action. Three of these sketches-of General Tasker Bliss and Commissioner Henry White at the Versailles Peace Conference, and of Marconi receiving the first transatlantic wireless message in Newfoundland -are models of their kind, written with the sense of history that makes both the characters and the moment live. The full-length portrait of Woodrow Wilson, whom Baker served at Versailles as the Peace Commission's press director, is masterly...
...Dominion's Office in London never published the commission's formal report. But last week in London the commission's chairman, Labor Peer Lord Ammon, put his own recommendations on record. He rejected as "unacceptable" the solution for Newfoundland's problems most often proposed by outsiders: confederation with Canada...
Britain's Plan. Lord Ammon's solution would keep Newfoundland a British dependency. He did not think the island ready for self-government again, proposed instead: 1) Newfoundlanders be allowed to elect three members of the six-man commission now ruling the country; 2) substantial grants by Britain to put the country on its feet; 3) a ten-year plan to build up neglected social services and to develop resources...
Under Lord Ammon's plan, Britain would underwrite Newfoundland's short-term liabilities: lack of education among the people, the island's towering public debt...
...mother country would gain some long-term assets. She would have a say in the disposition of the island's enormous undeveloped resources (including those in virtually unexplored Labrador). She could still oversee Newfoundland's strategic command of the sea and air approaches to the Western Hemisphere and the aviation bases at Goose Bay in Labrador, Gander on the East Coast, the U.S.-leased airport at Stephenville. These were reasons enough for Britain to keep her hand in Newfoundland affairs; why, as Newfoundland's trustee, she refused to commit herself on postwar air rights in Newfoundland territory...