Canada may not recognize Red China diplomatically, but it knows a good customer when it sees one. Last week Canada's Minister of Agriculture Alvin Hamilton announced the biggest one-shot grain sale in Canadian history: over the next 2½ years, Communist China will buy 233.4 million bu. of wheat and barley worth $362 million. The sale brought famine-suffering Red China from nowhere to second place (barely behind Britain) among Canada's grain customers.
To swing the deal, Hamilton flew to Hong Kong, ate 14-course meals with the Communist negotiators and cruised the harbor on their yacht. He nailed it down by offering credit:...
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