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There was little doubt in Washington or Ottawa that the agreement would be approved. Said a top Canadian official: "Canada [will be] a 49th state as far as war production is concerned...
Last week representatives of Canada and the U.S. met in Ottawa for what was, in effect, a renewal of the Hyde Park conference. The Roosevelt-King pact was a ready model for the 1950 planners. It took less than five hours to draw up a new agreement. Its basic terms...
...country seemingly convinced that the three Canadian destroyers and a squadron of ten transport planes already assigned for the Korean campaign were not enough, External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson flew to Washington to get a firsthand appraisal of the military situation. The secret report he brought back to Ottawa helped tumble the last opposition. At a four-hour meeting, the cabinet decided that a brigade of 4,000 to 5,000 volunteers should be recruited immediately for the Korean front...
...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...
...resigned the prime ministry. Although his doctor warned him that his heart was weak and he needed rest, the old Prime Minister turned resolutely to the task of writing his memoirs. But historians will have to finish the work. Last week, at 75, at his summer home outside Ottawa, death came to William Lyon Mackenzie King...