Word: ottawa
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Generals & Politicians. In Ottawa, Minister for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson chided generals who intervene dangerously in international policy. The French press, both right and left, voiced the strongest misgivings. "An Asiatic war," said Franc-Tireur, "is too serious to be left in the hands of a military man whose years exasperate his turbulence...
Unlike his predecessor, Eugene Griffin, the Tribune's reticent Ottawa correspondent, who three years in a row came to Harvard to look for "red tinges on the Ivy," Fulton talked amiably about his task. He said that State Representative E. J. Donlan, of West Roxbury, had given him a list of the leftist affiliations of Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, that "was an arm long...
Since the first atomic bomb exploded at Alamogordo in 1945, Washington and Ottawa have been hunting diligently for new uranium deposits. Reason: capacity of Canada's only uranium-producing mine, at Great Bear Lake on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is far short of U.S. needs, and overseas sources might be cut off by submarines in wartime. Last week in Toronto, William J. Bennett, boss of Canada's uranium monopoly, announced that Canada's second major mine would go into production, probably next year, at Beaver-lodge Lake in northwestern Saskatchewan. He fixed its initial production...
After months of listening in pained and piqued silence, Ottawa formally replied last week to persistent U.S. complaints that Canada is not pulling a full oar in Western defense. At the Commercial Club of Chicago, Canada's Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe told an audience of businessmen exactly what Canada's contribution to Western defense...
...congressional approval of a 1941 Canadian-American agreement for joint construction of the project looks better than usual. But it is far from assured. The anti-seaway lobby is still deeply entrenched on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Canadian patience is wearing thin. Said External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson in Ottawa last week: "The Americans say we are dragging our feet in world affairs. The biggest and longest dragging of feet I have known in my entire career is that of the Americans on the St. Lawrence seaway...