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Events from the year 1948 in Canada.
"A common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations" - UN proclaims Universal Declaration of Human Rights [3]
Parliamentary committee studying draft UN human rights declaration speaks to global variety of rights interpretations [4]
UN convention on genocide defines it as attempt to destroy group by killing or seriously harming members, preventing births or taking group's children [5]
Canadian children "had no idea what to do with us" - Holocaust orphan arrives in Canada and settles in Regina [6]
"Fitting together the scattered jigsaw-puzzle pieces of their lives" - Japanese Canadians move on, and why they have to [7]
CPR sleeping car porter enjoys travel but finds job "subservient" and travelling public "about 85 pleasant and the other 15 unpleasant" [8]
Ottawa-Quebec politics rule out Black U.S. troops in Quebec, where their presence "might be misunderstood and misrepresented" [9]
"Maximum dramatic appeal" and "simplicity" of secret U.S.A.-Canada free-trade proposal encourage optimism for success [10]
Lester Pearson says "the world needs the textiles which Japan" would produce if it received Most favoured nation trade status [11]
Ambassador to China keen to see Canadian presence (banks, Canadian Pacific ships and planes, TCA and Navy) in southeast Asia [12]
U.S.A. to hold multi-party talks on North Atlantic security matters, including Soviet intentions and U.S. commitment [13]
Canada wants North Atlantic security organization to involve foreign ministry consultation and economic and social collaboration [14]
Kinks in Canada-U.S. joint defence arrangements, including roles, responsibilities and functions, need to be worked out [15]
Canada seeks to know U.S. policy on partition of Palestine, especially regarding possibility of UN Security Council authorizing force [16]
Cabinet decides not to support UN membership for Israel before it recognizes Israel's provisional government [17]
With Nationalist forces "off balance and low in morale" in Chinese Civil War, Canada plans evacuations [18]
South African ambassador seeks Canada's support for white supremacy policy to block communism and Indians "swamping" whites [19]
Cabinet seeks better ways to exclude from Canada top leaders of "unions known to be communist dominated" and fellow travellers [20]
Cabinet Defence Committee sees need for Arctic icebreaker to support government stations and wartime amphibious operations [21]
"Frenzied," "shrill" and "a pitch of hysteria which could scarcely be raised" - anti-U.S. Soviet propaganda assessed [22]
Given CBC cooperation and with policy "guidance notes," Pearson ponders propaganda broadcasts to communist controlled countries [23]
Newfoundland must be independent because England couldn't help if it wanted to and confederation means federal government rule [24]
"I fear the return of Responsible Government" - Newfoundlander dreads days of privation recurring if Canada is rejected [25]
Refus Global calls Quebeckers to free themselves from past fears and anguish at nauseating recent evils with passion and unity [26]
CBC Radio interview with figure skating champion Barbara Ann Scott after she won gold medal at Winter Olympics in St. Moritz [27]
Photo: Calgary Stampeders' Norman L. Kwong runs into opposing team's defence in football game [28]
Kate Aitken talks about women of the year, including Princess Elizabeth, Barbara Ann Scott and Henrietta Banting, on her radio show [29]
CBC radio play from "series of dramatized programmes on human relation" involving National Committee for Mental Hygiene of Canada [30]
"Absolute and undying ambition to succeed" - CBC network announcer Elwood Glover's memories of his early radio career [31]
Ducks Unlimited naturalist says prairie drought can seem catastrophic, but only cover 1% of waterfowl breeding territory [32]
Illustration: Promotional poster, with illustration by Peter Maxwell Ewart, invites hunters to travel on Canadian Pacific [33]
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