Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Dominion's juiciest diplomatic assignment was still going beg ging. At Lake Success, until a willing and acceptable man is found, the job of representing Canada would probably be filled by External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister, behind a screen of refrigerated secretaries, said nothing...
Canada's government had decided that it was in Canada's interest to sell surplus warplanes (and ammunition for their guns) to the Nationalist government of China. Theoretically, Ottawa's policy toward the Chinese civil war was still "hands off," but by selling excess war equipment the government saw a chance to turn an honest dollar. For 323 Mosquito fighter-bombers, and to put them in condition for shipping, China spent...
...loaded on the Pakistan-owned freighter Colima, 100 pickets (many from the University of British Columbia), led by avowed Communists, paraded past the pier with signs reading: "Students say no arms to Fascists," and "Load bread, not bullets, on the Colima." Anti-Communist labor leaders in Vancouver and Ottawa forced the meddlesome Reds to back down and withdraw their pickets. But the Colima had overrun her charter date for loading the cargo, and Chinese officials had to seek another ship to carry it. At week's end, the cargoes were still waiting at the piers in both Halifax...
...prewar days, Quebec's Fascist National Unity Party claimed 80,000 members and openly talked about a march on Ottawa to seize the government. N.U.P. folded when its leader, Adrien Arcand, was interned during the war. But N.U.P. is not dead; recently some 850 members held a rally in Montreal. Time Correspondent Stuart Keate visited Leader Arcand in his home at Lanoraie, near Montreal, last week wired this report...
...subpoenas were withdrawn. Said Clark in a letter to Secretary Marshall: "The information supplied to our representatives at these meetings covered the immediate problems." In future, should similar problems arise, the Justice Department would consult first with the Canadian government. Washington called the outcome a draw, but to Ottawa it looked like a clear-cut victory...