Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family by the Suez adventure. As the private talks ranged from the Middle East to Russia to defense, one newsmaking proposal came from Canada's Diefenbaker. Having campaigned on a pledge to seek new markets for exports within the Commonwealth, he invited Commonwealth Finance Ministers to meet in Ottawa in September to map an agenda for a full-scale trade conference...
...first seemingly startled by their boldness in turning out the established Liberal regime in favor of the untried Tories, Canadians last week showed a growing tingle of pride. Gloated the Ottawa Journal: "What opens before us is a vista of fresh political interest: new faces, new voices, new opportunities. For we had come to a perilous stagnation, for long the most politically lethargic, uncritical and inarticulate citizens in the whole democratic world." Author H. S. Ferns, a recent biographer of late Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King, saw a more fundamental change on the political horizon. Wrote he: "Mr. Diefenbaker...
...advice, Tory Leader John Diefenbaker correctly sensed that Canada had had a bellyful of self-assured government too long in power. The pain affected even Liberals with a subtle death wish: many wanted their own party cut down for the good of the two-party system. A Liberal in Ottawa who voted Tory summed up a common Liberal reaction: "I never dreamed everybody else would do what I did!" Among the irritants was External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson's we-know-best refusal to answer the crowding questions about the suicide of Ambassador Herbert Norman in Egypt...
...chief district justice slated to try Girard. But the voice of Tokyo was soon drowned out by the growing uproar in the U.S. "Sold down the river," cried the Veterans of Foreign Wars; TO THE WOLVES, SOLDIER, cried the New York Daily News. In Girard's home town, Ottawa, Ill. (he lived there in the family trailer one year before enlisting in 1953) relatives and friends got up a 182-ft. petition protesting "a clear violation" of the U.S.'s duty to stand up for its fighting men. "You have traded the loyalty of the mothers of America...
...roared on. Colorado Republican Senator Gordon Allott proposed a bipartisan congressional investigation. District Court Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy directed U.S. authorities to show cause why Girard should not be returned to the U.S. "You're a national hero," Girard's brother told him by transpacific telephone from Ottawa. Whereupon Specialist Girard, who had won considerable public sympathy in Japan by virtue of having a Japanese fiancee, sacked his Japanese lawyer (selected by him and paid for from U.S. funds) and flirted with the idea of playing to the hilt the new role that his brother and the headline...