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...time being, almost an open road for Allied convoys. In his Guildhall speech last week, Winston Churchill said that U-boats recently had been massacred, and he pointed up the probable effects of that triumph on German morale. Malcolm MacDonald, Britain's High Commissioner to Canada, said in Ottawa that in a recent fortnight at least one submarine was destroyed every day. The German claims of sinkings in June were the lowest since the war began: 107,000 tons, down 800,000 tons from the 1943 high in March...
...final effort will be certain of success. But the High Commands do not depend on air offensives. Neither the intensification of the air campaign nor the first sea-&-land steps toward Germany's inner fortress will mean that the basic conception has been altered or abandoned. In Ottawa, Commissioner MacDonald presumably had these facts in mind when he said...
...Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King said in Ottawa this week: "Events the like of which none of us is able to contemplate are likely to take place in the course of a very few days...
Queen Wilhelmina, 62, made her third transatlantic air hop, joined Princess Juliana in Ottawa, planned to stay awhile and get acquainted with four-month-old Margriet Francisca, her new granddaughter...
...community, the politicians in Washington were compounding their economic solecisms. Tariffs, which caused the U.S. to run an export surplus when, as a creditor, it should have collected its interest in the form of an import surplus, were hiked even higher by the Hawley-Smoot rates of 1930. The Ottawa Agreements, raising a tariff wall around the British Commonwealth, the quota systems, the blocked exchanges, the abandonment of gold - these were the complex but natural sequences of U.S. unwillingness to play its part. Long before the League of Nations had shown its inability to keep the peace...