Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lurks Where? Ottawa's 22 arrests in an international spy ring pointed straight at Russia. Rumors flew that U.S. arrests were near. Russia's professional spy system is as good as they come. In the field of scientific espionage Russia has the special advantage of amateur assistance. There is no doubt that Russian Communism holds a peculiar attraction for some scientists and technicians. That Russia should seek atomic information was certainly not surprising. Other countries would do the same. The Canadian spy arrests, however, deeply disturbed international relations by calling attention to one of the most frightening aspects...
...last Friday's cold, grey dawn, two tall and dead-serious Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen knocked on the door of an Ottawa apartment. When the door opened, they walked in. Shortly they walked out again-with the sleepy occupant...
...same hour, the same thing happened elsewhere in the capital. Not all the raids went off as planned. At a third-floor apartment on Ottawa's Elgin Street, four Mounties almost failed to get their man. When they entered, they were thumped by the awakened tenant, who thought he was being robbed. The man they really wanted was asleep next door. There were raids elsewhere in Canada too-reportedly in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton. By week's end at least a score of men were "detained." One Canadian was reportedly picked up in London...
While Canada's UNO delegates planned for peace in London, Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe made a cautious hedge in Ottawa. Against the possibility that Canada might be caught short again as she was in 1939 (when tank regiments went overseas minus tanks), he added what he called "a fourth service" to the armed forces. Its title: Canadian Arsenals...
...from Pugwash. To match its whoop-de-do student body, U.B.C. has a robust president. He is Dr. Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie, a bootstrap scholar, brilliant organizer and a man who gets what he wants. When Ottawa phoned one day last fall giving permission to use abandoned Army huts on the campus, "Larry" MacKenzie chuckled: he had carted them off and put them on campus some weeks before...