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...next suggestion was General Andrew G. L. McNaughton. But the P.M. thought that McNaughton had his hands full as Canada's atomic-energy specialist. Then the P.M.'s advisers proposed Dana Wil-gress, former ambassador to Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates? The P.M.'s advisers shrugged; Canada, with a young striped-pants corps, simply did not have anyone else with proper experience...
...were handled in London's Soviet Embassy. In October 1942 the Kremlin sent able Feodor Gusev as its first Minister to Canada, later sent him to London to replace Ivan Maisky as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. To Moscow went Russian-speaking Leolyn Dana Wilgress, one of Ottawa's ablest civil servants. While on Canada's Economic Mission to Siberia, Wilgress married a Russian, fitted himself to meet Russians on their own terms...
...became the first to be represented by four Ambassadors. Six weeks ago, the Dominion set a Commonwealth precedent by making Franklin Delano Roosevelt's friend, Minister Leighton McCarthy, the first Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Last week it upped the Canadian Ministers in the Soviet Union (Leolyn Dana Wilgress), Brazil (Jean Desy) and China (retired Major General Victor Wentworth Odium) to ambassador's rank...
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