 Carter edited "News-Facts About the USSR" from 1950 to 1956 and the pro-Soviet glossy magazine "Northern Neighbours" from 1956 to 1989.The CSFS succeeded the National Council for Canadian Soviet Friendship, which had been founded during World War II to support the USSR as a war ally.Earlier, a Canadian branch of the American based Friends of Soviet Russia had also existed from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s.