Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction...
When the war ended, Louis St. Laurent wanted to get out of politics. His living expenses were more than his ministerial income ($10,000 as minister, $6,000 as an M.P., $2,000 car allowance), and he had even had to give up some insurance policies.* But Prime Minister King...
In his ten months as Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent, no man to show his hand, has dropped a few hints of what Canada can expect from him during his five-year term as his country's leader. On Parliament Hill, top-level government men have already labeled him "the...
The inevitable comparisons between St. Laurent and King run to their political views and whether ex-Corporation Lawyer St. Laurent will go along with King's Liberal Party policy, which launched such welfare-state schemes as baby bonuses, government grain-marketing and producer subsidies. St. Laurent has already indicated he...
Like every Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent faces the problem of bridging the gulf between English and French. His own French-Irish background, his perfect bilingualism, have already contributed a lot toward bringing French-and English-speaking Canada closer. He himself never uses the term "French Canadian"; his phrase is...