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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ottawa Journal angrily demanded: "Is this enough?" About the only groups who came out strongly against sending Canadian troops to Korea were the Union des Electeurs, a French Canadian isolationist party, and Canada's Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Is This Enough? | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...equally solid. Under him, Canada, which had had difficulty proving its right to sign a World War I peace treaty independently, became one of the richest and most important small nations in the world. From the outset, King insisted that Canada's foreign policies should be decided in Ottawa instead of London. Under his leadership Canada began to sign her own treaties and send her own ambassadors abroad. King's pattern of independence helped change the whole structure of the British Empire. By the Statute of Westminster in 1931, all the Dominions got the autonomous rights that Mackenzie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Record Holder | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Into the Open. Last week Maclean's magazine, in an article by Ottawa Editor Blair Fraser, brought the argument into the open. Author Fraser gave unstinted support to the Levesque faction and belabored the opposing group. "The Duplessis government," he charged, "has used every kind of pressure on Laval University to fire [Levesque]; ultra-conservatives in the Quebec clergy have twice carried their war against him to the Vatican itself . . ." To force the issue at Laval, continued Fraser, Duplessis had withheld half of a provincial $4,000,000 grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Here & Beyond | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Counterattack. Church leaders were not pleased over the belligerent and partisan Maclean's article. In Ottawa, Apostolic Delegate Msgr. Ildebrando Antoniutti said Fraser was "badly informed," his article "evidently tendentious." Archbishop Paul-Emile Leger, who had been trying to pour oil over the controversial waters after the resignation of Msgr. Charbonneau, was rumored to be "unhappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Here & Beyond | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Proud I.O.D.E. officers said they would display the rug on a cross-Canada tour to help raise the purchase price, then present it to the National Gallery in Ottawa for permanent hanging. At London's Marlborough House, pleased Queen Mary asked a lady in waiting: "How much is $100,000 in sterling?"* The royal needleworker will turn the money over to the national exchequer as her contribution to Britain's dollar drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: High Bid | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

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