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...OTTAWA, November 7--Some of the "missing" Polish art treasures brought to Canada for safekeeping during the war began turning up today as rival Polish factions continued their quarrel over the valuable collections...
Another result would be that the Liberals would have to keep the CCF pleased. This might prove difficult. For the CCF is strongest among farmers, where the Liberals were losing popularity. And in keeping the CCF pleased, the Liberals would probably lose the rest of the country. Said the Ottawa Journal, "What we face ... is the danger involved in a dying government which can prolong its life only by the grace of the CCF-by progressive surrender to socialism...
Arctic Defense. Most of the talking and planning has been done, since last January, by the six-year-old U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Defense Board, which meets irregularly (alternating between Montreal and New York) and makes proposals to Washington and Ottawa. Some of its proposals have been routine and noncontroversial. Others are knotty and controversial. Knottiest: the defense of the Canadian Arctic. What is under discussion is whether the U.S. and Canada shall i) man Arctic bases (some wartime ones, some to be built) with troops of both nations and 2) standardize weapons, all the way from aircraft to rifles...
Recently cheery, white-haired Russell Madill, 49, chief of the Magnetic Division of the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa, announced that the pole was some 200 miles north and 75 miles east of its previously announced location. He confirmed the observation of the navigator on the U.S. B-29 Pacusan Dreamboat, who two weeks earlier had found the pole where it was not supposed to be. The navigator's report neither surprised nor vexed Madill, who has mothered the wandering pole for 25 years...
Last week in Ottawa a jury convicted Gerson of conspiring to communicate state secrets to Soviet Russia. He was the sixth defendant convicted in the spy case. With no visible flicker of feeling he listened to Justice G. F. McFarland's scathing words: "I am not going to lecture you. You are too intelligent, even brilliant, not to understand fully why you are here." The sentence: five years in Kingston Penitentiary...