Word: ottawa
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...deference to a custom of long standing, Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent will broadcast a message to the Canadian people on New Year's morning. St. Laurent recorded the speech last week just before leaving Ottawa to spend the holidays at his Quebec City home. The actual text was to be kept secret until the broadcast, but one of the aides who helped prepare it disclosed what the tone of the message would be. "It will be calm and confident," he said, "with what Hollywood calls an upbeat ending...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the last Canadian war prisoner held by the Chinese Communists was free to shed gloomy light on how his fellow captives were faring in the so-called People's Republic. Squadron Leader Andrew MacKenzie, 34, who was released at the Hong Kong border Dec. 5, told Ottawa newsmen that under stress of 16 months of solitary confinement he had been forced to sign a phony confession that he had flown his U.S. Air Force F-86 over Red China. MacKenzie also brought fresh news of four other U.S. fliers still held by the Reds...
Salmon & Aluminum. In Washington and Ottawa last week, both the U.S. and Canadian governments were enthusiastic about the new plan, praised it for its cooperative approach. Besides Mica Creek, federal and private dam builders have projects for 49 more dams with a combined potential of some 11,900.000 kw., enough to give the Northwest power aplenty. But on most of them, battles over who shall build the dams, water rights, etc. are blocking construction. One of the most serious fights is between dam builders and conservation groups. So far, conservationists have filed "major" objections to 20 projects, "minor" objections...
This week in Ottawa, the National Gallery opened a small show of Emily Carr's oils and watercolors. Her Blunden Harbor (opposite) exemplifies as well as any one painting can the great strength and strangeness that is in all her best work...
...little stir. But the Negro was Grantley Adams, Premier of the British colony of Barbados and a staunch promoter of Canada-West Indies trade. When an airline official discovered next day that the Premier had been shunted to a second-rate hotel, he promptly reported the incident to the Ottawa government. Windsor Hotel officials hotly denied that any discrimination had been involved; the management insisted that there had really been "a lack of room." But the government seemed more inclined to accept Premier Adams' interpretation of the incident. Last week the External Affairs department sent a note to Barbados...