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...Caucusing in Ottawa last week, founder-members of the Co-operative Commonwealth Party cheered their leader, Canadian M. P. James Shaver Woodsworth of Winnipeg, when he loudly proclaimed: "Our objective is a bloodless Canadian revolution to establish a new social order without capitalistic profits...
Enthusiastic, Canada's only woman M. P., Agnes MacPhail, promised to do everything she can to lead her Ontario United Farmers' organization into Winnipeg's Woodsworth's "Bloodless Revolution...
...should not outlaw Communism in Germany. We can deal with those people better when they are openly organized." In Winnipeg, Canada, buxom Mrs. H. von Schleicher delights to talk about "my brother-in-law" the new Chancellor. "He is very funny and very witty, with a charming personality!" she bubbled recently. "But he believes in biding his time. He wants to see what others will do first. Kurt has always been like that...
...took off from the North Sea Island of Sylt, site of Capt. von Gronau's seaplane school, traversed without incident the northern passage via Iceland and Greenland to Montreal. Thenceforth she made her easy way across part of the U. S., pausing at Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee. North of Winnipeg the Whale rested on Cormorant Lake while her crew-rested, fished. Thence on to British Columbia, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and along the stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands and Kuriles to Tokyo...
Together with the Pit's slump, wheat tumbled in Winnipeg. Canadian prices have long been pegged at around 50?, a price which because of the depreciation in the Canadian dollar gives Canadian wheat an advantage in the world markets. Last week when the slump in Chicago narrowed the margin of advantage the Winnipeg peg was pulled. In a short time December wheat was selling at 47⅝? in Canadian currency, giving it a 2⅜? advantage over U. S. wheat. How this advantage works is seen in the September export figures. During the month Canada exported...