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Convict the Guilty. Eighteen months have elapsed since the young (28) cipher clerk, fed up with Communism, stuffed 100-odd secret documents inside his shirt and walked out of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa. It took him 36 frantic hours tb persuade anyone to listen to his shocking story-that a handful of traitorous Canadians had sent to Moscow information of the greatest importance about radar as well as samples of precious uranium 235 from which the atom bomb is made...
Tired of such talk, National Defense Minister Brooke Claxton made a public answer: "All the discussion and veiled charges about what is going on [at Churchill] have no foundation in fact." To prove it, he forthwith invited the Ottawa military attaches of ten foreign countries, including Russia, to go to Churchill, Man., to see for themselves...
...House of Commons at Ottawa, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, pink of face and neatly dressed in brown, rose beside his front bench last week with some news for the whole world. Canada and the U.S., he announced, have agreed to continue their wartime military collaboration in peacetime...
With the walkout only a few hours away, Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell conferred with both sides in Ottawa. More Government assistance, said he, was out. If the Carroll compromise were accepted, the 40? would have to come out of a higher coal price. But the operators found that unacceptable. Only skeleton maintenance crews were left underground. Industries and cities dug into the coal which they have been stockpiling. Most coal users had enough on hand for a few weeks. But Nova Scotia cities were already talking about dimouts and other conservation measures...
...Canadian Travel Bureau in Ottawa came a worried letter from a Michigan resident who had read of Premier Maurice Duplessis' all-out campaign against Jehovah's Witnesses (TiME, Dec. 16). The letter writer, who was planning a Canadian tour, asked : "Is it safe for a Protestant to travel in Quebec...