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...Moscow director of Russian military intelligence ordered his Ottawa bureau chief, Colonel Nikolai Zabotin, to get in touch with Dr. May through Sam Carr, organizing secretary of the Canadian Communist Party and a central figure in the spy network Zabotin had built up in Canada. Zabotin thought Carr too risky a contact and put one of his Russian operators on to May. What the Russians wanted most at this stage was information about uranium and atomic energy, and May gave it to them. In accordance with Russian espionage practice, Zabotin's man insisted on paying May, despite his squeamish...
...this point, Russian calculations were upset by a 26-year-old cipher clerk in the Russian embassy in Ottawa. Igor Gouzen-ko had been in Canada only two years, but he had learned to love the free Western way of life. Entrusted with the coding of Zabotin's dispatches, he became alarmed at the magnitude of the conspiracy and the added power the possession of an atomic bomb would give Dictator Stalin. One evening Gouzenko ran out of the embassy with his shirt stuffed with Moscow telegrams, including some mentioning Alek...
...evening last January, in the pale green dining room of Ottawa's Rideau Hall, Winston Churchill sat at a banquet table, ruddy-faced in an atmosphere redolent of brandy and cigars. He was Prime Minister again, and enjoying it. Sitting near him were Lords Ismay, Cherwell and Alexander. Among the 40 guests, few noticed the tall, slim British general seated downtable. But suddenly Churchill waved a brandy glass at the officer and bellowed...
Churchill ran a broad finger down Britain's army list and halted at the fifth name: General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O. A message to Cobham, Surrey brought 54-year-old General Templer flying to the banquet room in Ottawa. Three weeks later he was in Malaya, with such military and political powers in his kit bag as no British soldier had had since Cromwell...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who has often had trouble understanding and being understood by the U.S. press, last week gave his own estimate of the role of the press in diplomatic relations. Said Acheson at a meeting of the Canadian Club in Ottawa: "We are blessed in this era with a form of diplomatic communication which is faster than instantaneous. I refer to the press, which . . . often precedes the event, and sometimes reliably. Indeed the press rumor or 'leak' has become an almost indispensable adjunct of modern-day diplomacy. Perhaps this is . . . Government austerity designed to reduce...