Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already there had been three-cornered conversations between Washington, London and Ottawa. St. Laurent hinted at an early conference: "It may be that the free states, or some of them, will soon find it necessary to consult together on how best to establish such a collective security league." They might meet in Ottawa...
After sleeping on it and reading their morning newspapers, however, M.P.s were wide awake. St. Laurent's speech, said the Ottawa Citizen, "bids fair to become the most significant declaration made in peacetime on Canadian foreign policy." Said the Montreal Gazette: St. Laurent "stated a credo of national defense that every Canadian will applaud...
CCFers and many a Liberal cheered. From the Tories came a chorus of "No! No!" Arsenault's private bill had little chance of passage. Snapped the Ottawa Journal: "... A very silly notion. Words or the lack of them do not make our independence." But many loyal, pro-Empire Canadians agreed with Arsenault's purpose, if not his motive: they were tired of explaining to Americans that "Dominion" does not imply "domination...
Three years ago Prime Minister King Hired Jacques Greber, Parisian cityplanner, to draw up blueprints for a capital that Canadians could be proud of. Last week, before a Senate Committee, the white-mustached, 65-year-old Frenchman gave a few hints of what Ottawa could look like...
...paper mills, and the other industries that now line the Ottawa River would be removed to make room for a park. The capital area's 900 square miles of farm and wood lands, lakes, rivers and city blocks would be molded into one panorama, to be viewed from a 140-ft. World War II memorial tower atop one of the nearby Gatineau hills...