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...What the business was, the astute East Block (Canadian equivalent of the U.S. State Department) did not say. But to handle it the Dominion last week assigned one of her ablest constitutional lawyers. He is shrewd, friendly Charles J. Burchell, who left a rich practice in his native Nova Scotia to enter Canada's diplomatic service in 1939. Until last week he was High Commissioner in war-important Newfoundland; before that, the first High Commissioner to Australia...
George Kenney was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 53 years ago. His parents were Americans whose vacation he spoiled by arriving a week early. His expatriate birth was in the tradition of his mother's family: she had been born on shipboard on the Atlantic and one of her sisters had been born in Sweden...
...last week in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., convalescing from a heart attack in November. His patriotic pageant You Can Defend America (TIME, May 25), his chief activity nowadays, has been temporarily suspended, but its north-of-the-border adaptation, Pull Together, Canada, is going great guns in Nova Scotia...
Ready to be "inducted" this week as flagship of the Coast Guard's Corsair Fleet was the sturdy, full-rigged Gertrude L. Thebaud, most famed of U.S. fishing schooners. Built to sail in weather that would blow the paint off her, the Gertrude L. Thebaud met Nova Scotia's older, bigger Bluenose in three salt-sprayed races, won once, lost twice. In her day she has brought back many a load of cod and halibut. Now, with her white hull painted drab grey, she will patrol the Atlantic Coast listening for lurking subs...
Bluntly last week Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley put the basic issues to his Nova Scotia constituents: "To vote 'no' is to vote for isolationism, and isolationism is short-sighted and inevitably fails those who adhere to it. A 'no' vote would play into the hands of the enemy and their fifth-column allies...