Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada and the U.S. want to get along, can get along, and most of the time they do get along. But the closeness of contact makes irritation inevitable. In the last three years Ottawa has sent half a dozen stiff notes to Washington protesting U.S. trade restrictions. The case of Canadian Diplomat Herbert Norman, who killed himself in Cairo after a U.S. Senate subcommittee revealed that he once had Communist connections, inspired bitter diplomatic notes and an outburst of anti-U.S. editorials. Proud that their currency is robustly solid, Canadians are furious when some U.S. shopkeeper or cab driver...
...debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast in the college magazine The Sheaf that he would some day lead the opposition in the House of Commons in Ottawa...
...struggle left Drew ill and exhausted. From a Toronto hospital room, he resigned as party leader. At a convention in Ottawa in December, John Diefenbaker won the leadership on the first ballot. Diefenbaker opened his campaign for the June election with the simple charge that the entrenched Liberals had become too powerful and arrogant. The Tories, he promised, would put an end to the "concentration of overwhelming power in the Cabinet...
...night a week after the election, as John Diefenbaker and Olive sat down to chicken sandwiches and ice cream in Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel, a telephone call came from Government House. While Olive wept softly with excitement, John was informed that on the following day Governor General Massey would ask him to form a new government of Canada...
Canada First. As the course and aims of the new government emerged in the past two months. Canadians seemed increasingly pleased with the change of faces in Ottawa. Even Liberal newspapers found little to carp about, and leaders of the opposition parties promised not to "obstruct" the new government. On Oct. 14, Queen Elizabeth II will read a government policy statement to the new 23rd Parliament, and Diefenbaker will then present his legislative program to a hostile majority in the House of Commons. The opposition parties could join forces at any time to overthrow his government and force...