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Could he do it? Like Art Smith, the Ottawa Citizen last week thought it would be the other way around. The anti-CCF Citizen noted the swing to socialism in Great Britain and elsewhere in the world, and candidly said: "Canada has already witnessed the birth and steady growth of its own social democratic party, the CCF." As the trend continues, the Citizen said, one or the other of the older parties will either disappear or will coalesce. Then the CCF "will assume ... its position as the 'other' major political party in Canada...
Canada looked in the mirror last week and liked the ruddy cheeks it saw. In Ottawa, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced that the fiscal year would certainly end (March 31) with the budget in balance. There was a $200,000,000 Government surplus at the end of eight months, instead of the $200,000,000 deficit expected. Better still, there might be cuts in taxes, although they probably would not be large...
...first Ukrainian to settle in Canada, Farmer Elyniak had been picked to take part in the Citizenship Week celebrations at Ottawa. Along with 23 other representative Canadians, including Armenian-born Photographer Yousuf Karsh, he would be handed a certificate of citizenship from Chief Justice Rinfret. For the first time the certificates would carry the words "Canadian Citizen" (TIME, May 27) instead of "British Subject"-official evidence of a nation's coming of age. For Citizen Elyniak it would be a fitting last chapter of his life, which is also the story of the settlement and growth of the prairie...
...Sheep's Clothing (May). In Ottawa, on meatless Tuesday, a lunchroom patron thrust a struggling sheep on a pop-eyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...
...oldest bureau, Chicago has the most impressive list of alumni of all our domestic bureaus. They include Walter Graebner, European Area Director for TIME-LIFE International; Eleanor Welch and Fillmore Calhoun. assistants to the Chief of Foreign Correspondents; Sidney James, LIFE'S National Affairs Editor; James McConaughy Jr., Ottawa bureau chief; Robert Sherrod, TIME'S roving correspondent in the Pacific; David Hulburd, chief of all TIME'S domestic news bureaus. Like many another TIMEman who learned his trade in the field, they have brought to their new jobs at home and abroad a first-hand knowledge...