Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twin-engined Beechcraft rolling down the runway at Churchill under a lowering, leaden sky carried four assigned passengers and one hitchhiker. Captain Benjamin Scott Custer, onetime director of air safety in the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, now attache in Ottawa, was returning from a cruise with Canada's aircraft carrier Magnificent (TIME, Sept. 13). Captain Sir Robert Stirling-Hamilton, the Royal Navy's observer, was Custer's guest. There were two U.S. Navy pilots. And there was Master Sergeant Jerome Scalise, 50, going home to Virginia for retirement. After 30 years in the Army...
...pulling Pearson into politics, the Liberal bigwigs had brought off the neatest coup that Ottawa has seen in many a day. At 51, Mike Pearson has an international reputation unrivaled among Canadians. In London and Washington (where he was ambassador in wartime) he has made more friends for Canada than any of his predecessors...
...Henri Pétain and a director of operations against the French underground. Furthermore, the French police reported, he had caused the deaths of Frenchmen and other Allied soldiers "probably including Canadians from the Royal Canadian Air Force." That settled Count de Bernonville's appeal for Canadian citizenship. Ottawa ordered him out of the country...
...didn't look so bad. Houde and his nationalist friends were cooking up a new political party, Le Parti Canadien. De Bernonville looked like just what they needed to bring French Canadian voters running. He was a Roman Catholic. He could be made to seem a martyr to Ottawa's "implacable hatred" for Frenchmen and Roman Catholics...
...Protest. Opportunist Houde pulled out all the stops. He barged into the Montreal offices of the British United Press, dictated a blast against Ottawa's treatment of De Bernonville. "A crying injustice," charged Houde. Gustave Jobi-don, a Quebec City notary, cabled to ex-French Premier Robert Schuman: "French Canada is scandalized . . . Vive Pétain. Vive De Bernonville." Other Parti Canadien backers called De Bernonville "a hero of epic and legendary stature...