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...other honors, Elder Statesman Cordell Hull could now add the Nobel Peace Prize for 1945.* Explained the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, which announced its first peace award since 1938, in Oslo this week: Hull, the eighth American to be so tapped, had done most to lay the foundations for the San Francisco Conference...
...investigation had been going on quietly for a year and a half. Into Parliament's lap last week Justice Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent dropped the 60-page, 30,000-word summary: a report on cartels, their effect on Canadians, what should be done about them. Chief investigator was Fred A. McGregor, Commissioner of Canada's Combines [Monopolies] Investigation Act. Examples of what be reported...
What Minister St. Laurent had to propose to Parliament was that it get busy putting down cartels. First step: appropriation of enough money to enforce antimonopoly laws inside Canada...
...Norway, a new Government took office last week. On the strength of its recent election victory and its absolute majority in the new Storting (Parliament), the socialistic Labor Party decided to rule without benefit of coalition. Its leader, rugged, rock-like Einar Gerhardsen, will preside over the youngest Cabinet in Norway's history (average age: 43). Its No. 1 policy: further socialization...
Labor used a telling argument at the hustings: a Labor Parliament needed Labor councils to carry out Labor policy. Then, in the words of its slogan, it could go "full steam ahead." When the votes had been counted in the 182 biggest metropolitan and provincial boroughs, Labor had brushed aside most of its opposition to win 2,977 seats (a gain of 1,245). Conservative strength slid from 1,595 seats to 835, Liberals from 245 to 111. Communists upped their standing from...