Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For a month the shooting of the outdoor sequences clicked along without a hitch. When the moviemakers went back to London to finish some indoor shots, the squires of Much Wenlock finally holed up to have a look at Mrs. Webb's novel. What they read led them to...
The Czech puppet Parliament last month passed a church law, by the usual unanimous show of hands, which made all clergymen employees of the state, and set up President Klement Gottwald's Communist son-in-law, Alexej Cepicka, as cabinet minister in charge of religion. The Catholic Church had...
On the human side, the U.S. deal with Newfoundland looked every bit as sound. In 1940 President Roosevelt, announcing the 99-year lease of the bases from England, had called them "gifts, generously given and gratefully received." Since then, both sides seemed to live up to the spirit of the...
Law & Order. This week, like a diligent lawyer checking up on the fine-print clauses, Maclean's magazine stepped in to warn the landlord that the new tenant was not all he seemed to be. Maclean's Ottawa editor, Blair Fraser, wrote an eyebrow-lifting article entitled "Where...
Truth & Consequences. Fraser's charge that Newfoundlanders' legal rights end at the gates of the U.S. bases was perfectly true. That was the letter of the British U.S. agreement drawn up when the bases were leased. Since then Newfoundland has become part of Canada, and Canada is not...