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...enough to satisfy the Soviet Premier. Last week the full 14,000 words of Khrushchev's speech appeared in two-and three-page display ads in the New York Herald Tribune, Kansas City Star, Hearst's San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, the Manchester Guardian, Montreal Star, Ottawa Journal and Winnipeg Free Press. Total cost to the Soviet government: $30,603. The Soviets, in following Madison Avenue's ways, still had some lessons to learn: the ads were unrelievedly grey in eye-straining type...
...cries of "betrayal" from Sydney and Ottawa, Macmillan's men reply that Britain can best lead the Commonwealth from within the Common Market, where she can help to lower tariffs, pare discriminatory internal taxes, and channel Europe's fast-growing investment funds to underdeveloped nations. The only alternative to Britain's membership, as Macmillan, Heath & Co. see it, would be to relinquish all claims to big-power status and resign herself, like 18th century Venice, to continued isolation and impoverishment...
...Ottawa it was clear that someone had begun laying the groundwork in early May. Washington was so well braced that Canadian representatives were able to sew up the credits ($300 million from the International Monetary Fund. $400 million from the Export-Import Bank, $250 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, $100 million from the Bank of England) just two hours after they arrived at IMF headquarters...
...Canada had let its exchange rate bob free ever since 1950. But the IMF, and its able Swedish director, Per Jacobsson, have been increasingly irritated at the way Canada has been manipulating its dollar to try to jog the slumping Canadian economy. The IMF turned up the heat on Ottawa to peg its dollar at a fixed rate...
Everyone in Ottawa's House of Com mons knew roughly what to expect when the Prime Minister rose for his announcement. Elected in 1958 with the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian his tory, Diefenbaker still had eleven months to go in his five-year term, though it is never prudent to go to the country at the last moment. He would really have preferred to delay the election until September, he said, but the Liberals' "delaying tactics and obstruction" had made it "al most impossible to proceed with the busi ness of the House." Thus, Diefenbaker explained blandly...