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Events from the year 1950 in Canada.
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North Korea invades South and Opposition Leader says Canada is involved through UN role and because of immediacy of modern world [4]
Moral, not strategic, stakes require defeat of North Korea, so that "naked aggression" will not destroy state created by UN [5]
Film: newsreel of Canadian airmen leaving for Korea as U.S. troops fight on defensive near Pusan invasion beachhead [6]
Canada and U.S.A. agree to further defence industry mobilization at level of cooperation seen in Second World War [7]
"It is the function of diplomacy to seek accommodation" - Canada and allies send in diplomats as well as military to end Korean War [8]
Canadian troops arrive by ship at Pusan, Korea and U.S. Army band plays "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake"[9]
"Uneasy equilibrium" - In countering Chinese attack in Korean War, Canada and allies must not provoke U.S.S.R. to start world war[10]
"Growing atmosphere of fear, suspicion, frustration, and isolation" - Authorities in Eastern Bloc countries harass diplomats [11]
"Our first duty to civilization is[...]sufficient military strength" - Prime Minister St. Laurent on liberalism against totalitarianism [12]
For federal-provincial accord on bill of rights, Senate committee says "control within Canada of the Canadian Constitution" is required[13]
Though "coloured troops introduced venereal disease[...]during the war," Canada can hardly refuse Black GIs since U.S. military integration [14]
Pakistani PM says idea that "commonwealth ties are mainly religious, historical or racial must be regarded as having outlived its use"[15]
"There is discrimination against Indians in the matter of immigration[...]and admission of relatives of Indians already settled" [16]
With Canada's "serious shortage of female domestics and nurses' aids," loans should go to Europeans in "this class of immigrant" [17]
"We can ASK...CRUSADE...DEMAND...and WIN" - Alton C. Parker and other Windsor, Ont. Blacks organize to oppose segregation [18]
Photo: Emily General from Six Nations of the Grand River shows Haldimand Treaty to members of UN Commission on Human Rights [19]
"Vast volume of water into every stream" - Signs of major flood event noted before Red River flood surge enters Manitoba [20]
Film: newsreel of Winnipeg flood extent and evacuations [21]
"Small measure of our gratitude for all the help we have had" - Britons donate unique household items to flood victims [22]
"Too willing to accept people at their face value" - RCMP security report on Canadian diplomat Herbert Norman [23]
Film: 30-minute short on cancer research and treatment includes laboratory, hospital and classroom shots, plus animation[24]
Film: newsreel of parachute personnel jumping from Dakota aircraft on practice rescue mission out of RCAF Station Trenton [25]
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