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...sterling area countries are hoping that something can be done to ease their troubles at the conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, which will be held in London in November. Canada, the only dollar nation in the Commonwealth bloc, seems more skeptical than hopeful. Preparing for the conference last week, Ottawa took the attitude of a rich cousin invited to a family reunion-sorry for the less fortunate relatives, wary lest they make an unwelcome touch...
...Ottawa's attitude was a far cry from its feelings at a similar conference in 1932. Then, weakened by a depression and with her exports lagging, Canada fought for preferential trade treatment within the Commonwealth. Now, riding a record boom in domestic production and foreign trade, Ottawa spokesmen are inclined to scold the sterling countries...
British officials in Ottawa have not accepted Canada's about-face without challenge. Snapped one last week: "Let [Canadians] look at our domestic policies. We might look at theirs too, and conclude that one reason Canada is doing so well is that it isn't pulling its weight. It hasn't even the guts to demand conscription." The family reunion promises to be a forum for some healthy plain talk...
...glittering patch of quartzite, high on Sheguindah Bay Hill, was just the thing to catch an archaeologist's eye. Knowing that Stone-Age Americans made primitive tools from the easily workable material, Thomas Lee, a dedicated digger from Ottawa's National Museum, scrambled up the rocky slope on Lake Huron's Canadian shore to have a look. Half an hour later, he was poking and prodding one of the richest diggings in North America. The forest floor was dotted with crude knives, scrapers, and quartz chips. "I felt drunk," he said. "It looked as though the Indians...
Postal Regulations. In Ottawa, Canadian army brass issued an order prohibiting soldiers overseas from mailing to friends at home: "motor vehicles, airplanes, motorcycles, surgical and dental instruments and machine tools...