CANADA: Move Over, Cousin

In London's Royal Albert Hall, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker rose last week and told 6,000 Britons, including Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, that Canada proposes to "overtake the United Kingdom in national income and output in the next quarter-century or so."

Swept to power last March when he sold his vision of a greater Canada to Canadian voters, Diefenbaker was off on a 27,000-mile, seven-week world tour to sell greater Canada to the world. He has a good case. Canada's economy has spurted faster since World War II than Britain's or the...

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