CANADA’S COURSE
PARTNER IN BRITISH COMMONWEALTH NO UNION WITH UNITED STATES OTTAWA, Jan. 13. “ Canada seeks to preserve her association with the British Commonwealth as an instrument through which we, witli others sharing our objective, can co-operate for our common good in peace and in war,” said the Miuister of External Affairs, Mr J. S. St. Laurent. “On the other hand, we .should continue to resist efforts to reduce to formal terms or to specify the commitments of this association which has demonstrated its vitality through the common .understanding on which it is based. We should likewise oppose developments in our Commonwealth relations which might . be inconsistent with our desire'to participate fully in the task of building an effective international organisation pn a wider scale.”
Mr St. Laurent added that Canadians had taken the final decision to remain outside the United States, and there was no longer a body of opinion that looked toward annexation. The people of the United States had come to a parallel conclusion that they would not extend their boundaries beyond the present limits.
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Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 7
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