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      THE INSIDE STORY

      THE INSIDE STORY

       A Life in Journalism

      Anthony Westell

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      Copyright © Anthony Westell, 2002

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       National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Westell, Anthony, 1926–

      The inside story: a life in journalism

      ISBN 1-55002-375-6

      1. Westell, Anthony, 1926– 2. Journalists — Canada — Biography. 3. Canada — Politics and government — 1935– I. Title.

      PN4913.W48A3 2002 070’.92 C2002-901070-5

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      CONTENTS

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       INTRODUCTION

       THE MAKING OF A JOURNALIST

       Chapter 1: Surfacing in the Gene Pool

       Chapter 2: Growing Up in the Old World

       Chapter 3: Going to War

       A WORKING JOURNALIST

       Chapter 4: Funerals, Fleet Street, Family Man

       Chapter 5: Getting Started in Politics

       Chapter 6: Small Head, Big Feet Lead to Canada

       Chapter 7: Good Times at the Globe

       Chapter 8: Making a National Name

       Chapter 9: The Last Days of Pearson and Diefenbaker

       Chapter 10: Trudeau and Transition

       A.K.A. AN ACADEMIC

       Chapter 11: Sideways to a New Career

       Chapter 12: News versus Truth

       Chapter 13: The Rise and Fall of Canadian Nationalism

       Chapter 14: Reinventing Canada

       INDEX

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      The story of my life is in many ways the story of how the lives of others have touched and ordered my own. So I acknowledge my debt to everyone mentioned in this book, and indeed to hundreds more. But in particular I wish to thank three friends who read my draft, chapter by hesitant chapter, and offered advice, dissent, and, most important, encouragement: Jack and Marie Cahill, and Peter Carver. Without them there might have been no book, and certainly not this one. My wife, Jeannie, learned proofreading as a teenaged editor of a weekly paper in wartime Britain, and she read and corrected my manuscript, even when she disagreed with what I was writing or would rather I had not written it. My sister, Diana, provided early family pictures, and my niece, Gillian Westell, provided some of the research on the Smedley family. Professor Hari Sharma told me about early and revolutionary times at Simon Fraser University.

      At the conclusion of Chapter 13 I suggest that Canadians may play a role in the American Empire similar to that of the Scots in the British Empire. I owe that powerful idea to Mark Lovewell, my colleague on The Literary Review of Canada.

      The photo on the cover was taken by a friend, the late Jan Breyer. It shows me not as I am today but at mid-life and mid-career and reading a newspaper, which seems appropriate for a book about a life spent working in newspapers.

      INTRODUCTION

      I was 15 in 1941, Britain was at war, and it was time