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Once again, by any innuendo he could conceive, or any indiscretion in Washington he could seize on, Diefenbaker tried to stir up anti-Americanism, a brew not so effective as it once was, but still heady. "Nobody pushes Canada around," he warned, especially not a nation that took 27 months longer than Canada to enter the Second World War. The Toronto Star accused him of talking like "some alcoholic patriot in a tavern...
...flurry of appeasement, the city council voted $500,000 for paving streets in the Mexican section. Prominent Anglo citizens took every Mexican council candidate aside and tried to talk him out of running. "We've always got along," said one Anglo. "Why do you want to stir up this sort of trouble...
...Crystal City Mexicans did stir up trouble for themselves. They control the town's government, but the Anglos control its economy. One council-seat winner got fired from his job in a hardware store. Another found his wages cut in half by his Anglo employer. But, mindful that Mexicans outnumber Anglos in South Texas, PASO looks upon the Crystal City election as a momentous triumph. Says Albert Fuentes, the PASO official who led the campaign: "We have done the impossible. If we can do it in Crystal City, we can do it all over Texas. We can awake...
...been valued at $85,000. How many others have been found is something of a mystery. One local rumor suggests that many are picked up but to avoid income tax are not reported. A contrary rumor holds that the field is sometimes salted with rough diamonds to stir up tourist interest. A third rumor whispers that Arkansas would be a major diamond producer if an international diamond combine had not managed somehow to block every attempt to work the deposits by large-scale mining methods...
Some of them suggest that Soviet Premier Khrushchev may be trying to stir up new trouble by pressing unacceptable demands on the West...