Last week, more clearly than before, Canada saw the shape of her constant dilemma: How to reconcile membership in the British Commonwealth with her geographical position, her national aims.
The country had been brought face to face with this dilemma by an ill-timed speech of Lord Halifax, in Toronto two weeks ago. In it he had proposed that Britain and the Dominions share equal responsibility in the shaping of Commonwealth foreign policy. This suggestion, innocuous to U.S. readers, was enough to cause violent debate in Canada.
Beyond controversy was one point on which all...
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