The “strong bond” existing between Canada and Israel was emphasized today by William Hamilton, Canada’s Postmaster General, addressing the Kiwanis Club here. “Like Canada, Israel lives and thinks in the future rather than in the past or even the present, and it feels that its future is heavily bound up with its own industrial development and its ability to stand on its own two feet,” the Minister said.
Even more than Canada, he declared, Israel is rolling back its frontiers and finding untold promise in areas which previous generations had discarded as useless. Both in Israel and in Canada, he stated, capital investments for such tremendous programs of national development are so great that they cannot all be provided internally.
The Canadian Minister, who has just returned from a visit to Israel, cited the Canadian Forest planted by the Jewish National Fund in Israel, Canadian-sponsored buildings at the Hebrew University, the Moishe Dickstein Hospital at Elath and business projects financed by Canadian citizens as evidence of the bond between the two nations.
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