Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screened porch in the residence of the U.S. ambassador in green and summery Ottawa, two tall, greying men stood elbow to elbow one evening last week, each intent upon the other. While cocktail-party chatter echoed in other rooms, John George Diefenbaker, the Prime Minister of Canada, talked, gestured, sipped from a glass of orange juice. John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, cradled a rye highball in his hand as he nodded, smiled, listened. Thus casually, top officials of the world's two most neighborly nations began to explore the subtle new relationship that must come about...
...form-shattering election victory, Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker has been one of the world's busiest statesmen. At a Commonwealth Conference in London, Tory Diefenbaker plugged hard for brisker Canadian-British trade, proposed that his fellow chiefs of government meet next in Canada; back in Ottawa, he presided over sessions of his brand-new Cabinet to chart Canada's new political course. Last week, in his first breathing spell since he took office, John Diefenbaker flew to home town Prince Albert (pop. 21,000), Sask. and a heart-warming homecoming from his constituents...
...sturdy old red brick armory have known John Diefenbaker since he was a lanky prairie lawyer, using a shrewd judgment of human nature and an effective bag of courtroom theatrics to win difficult jury cases. When the welcoming speeches ended, Diefenbaker responded: "Our house will be in Ottawa, but our home will always be in Prince Albert...
...Japan, Soldier Girard telephoned his mother in Ottawa, Ill. to tell her: "Don't cry. I know I'll get a fair trial." He believed he would be acquitted by the Japanese court (presumably on a showing of accident). Maebashi District Judge Yuzo Kawachi, who will preside over Girard's trial, said the decision was "just what I expected-very good." In a banner-headline story, Tokyo's Asahi Evening News reported: "At no time since the signing of the San Francisco peace treaty have Japanese thought so kindly of the U.S. and the American ideal...
Canada's new Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker flew home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference in London last week, where he had persuaded the other delegates to start mapping ways to broaden trade within the Commonwealth. In Ottawa he announced a drastic Canadian proposal to carry out the Commonwealth trade speedup: a slash in imports from the U.S. of 15% ($625 million a year). Canada would make up the difference-"mainly capital goods"-from Britain instead. With Canada's wheat surplus ripening into his worst domestic worry, Diefenbaker also attacked U.S. wheat export "giveaways," which insist...