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...good-will visit with top Soviet officials, found time for one item of business: an agreement to start preliminary talks for a new Canadian-Soviet trade treaty. The Moscow press, hailing the latest evidence of the spirit of Geneva at work, announced that Soviet negotiators would leave soon for Ottawa...
...details of military operations. One of the few who far surpassed these minimum military requirements was Thomas Davies, a British artillery officer whose American and Canadian watercolors were brought to light in Britain only two years ago On display this week at Canada's National Gallery in Ottawa, they have already established Davies as "the father of Canadian landscape painting...
Included in the Ottawa collection are two of Davies' earliest sketches done in 1758, one depicting the burning of Grymross, Nova Scotia, by British troops and another a detailed drawing of the new British fortifications with key points carefully labeled: "A. Fort Frederick. B. Huts built by the Rangers. C. Passage up the River. Davies' later views of Montreal, Quebec and Halifax are valued as the first to be recorded in Canadian history...
Canada's booming uranium industry has leveled off sharply in the past month, in the wake of rumors out of Ottawa and Washington (which buys most of Canada's uranium) that the market might be approaching the saturation point and that the Canadian government was about to stop buying uranium. Last week Defense Production Minister C. D. Howe cleared the air with a statement of the government's uranium policy: ¶ Until March 31, 1962, Ottawa will buy all acceptable uranium concentrates, i.e., 10% U208, at a maximum price of $7.25 per Ib. for the uranium content...
...Howe flash the warning? Howe himself did not say, and tight-lipped U.S. Atomic Energy Commission officials in Washington would add nothing. But William Bennett, head of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., hinted that Ottawa had received word from Washington putting a definite ceiling on the amount of Canadian uranium the U.S. will contract...