Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ottawa is scarcely less a royal capital than London. Officially George V is styled "By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King." He is therefore in fact King of Canada though never addressed as such. In Canada His Majesty is represented by Governor General the Earl of Bessborough. In Ottawa sedate Lord Bessborough sits on the "Crown Chair." In Rideau Hall he holds a vice-regal reception at which Canadian ladies are "presented." He flies a symbolic flag with a blue field on which appears a gold crown...
...gigantic Unilever Ltd. (margarine), chairman of Brazil's coffee-carrying San Paulo Railway, deputy chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines (South Africa), a director of some 30 other corporations. Thus His Excellency is a Big-Business Governor General. Last week he prepared to open for His Majesty in Ottawa a Big Business meeting, the Imperial Economic Conference...
Days before the Conference met last week, Ottawa swarmed with lobbyists and dickerers from all parts of the Empire and the world. Some 5,000 farmers from Ontario and Quebec were marching upon Ottawa. They proposed to meet in monster caucus, formulate demands for measures to enhance crop prices, present these demands to the Conference...
...Ottawa last week Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett behaved in a manner which correspondents called "rough and almost dictatorial" with respect to the coming Conference. Members of the Cabinet complained privately that Mr. Bennett was excluding them from his confidence. Preparations seemed to be under way to exclude the Press as much as possible from Conference doings...
...Quebec and Montreal, opponents of Premier Bennett call him a social climber who has made his way into high British Conservative circles on frequent visits to the mother country. The Conservative group will attempt to steamroller through at Ottawa a tariff policy of Empire isolation?the policy against which Edward of Wales came out last week...