Life Story Of A Noted Canadian

Noted Canadian

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road, Canada’s has not yet lounted to very much in the uth Pacific and tends to be re rded as an extension of the uted States. [OST of our own problems have parallels in Africa rather than the big, white Dominion on the er side of the Pacific. [he memoirs of a distinguished aadian, the Rt. Hon. Vincent ssey, CH., What’s Past is Prologue, only gives an insight into the at moments in Canadian history ing the last 50 years but into the at moments of our times as well, dassey became interested in politics the early 1920’s but it was in the [omatic field that he made his atest mark, at different periods ng Canadian Minister in Washing and London. n 1931, he records, he was offered Governorship of Western Aus ia but seems to have found WA be rather a long way out of his it. He turned down this first op tunity for a national of one British minion to represent the Sovereign mother. n 1952, Mr. Massey became the ; Canadian Governor-General of lada, a post previously reserved Englishmen, and his term of :e (to 1959) enabled him—and bles readers of his book—to meet □ more of the world’s distinguished les than his diplomatic posts in ope and the United States, n this (as in most biographies) the slights on the important people of times provide most of its value.

'V addicts of the Dr. Kildare es will be surprised to see what ears to be “Dr. Gillespie” looking hem out of the dust-jacket of this k. Dr. Gillespie is played by unond Massey but it was news to antipodean that Vincent and rniond are brothers—and very :h alike.—JT.

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