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Ernest Lapointe was a national figure as envoy to London, Geneva and Canberra, as Acting Prime Minister and a power behind the Administration; yet he remained a native son from whom Quebec expected-and got-special attention to provincial interests...
This week a natural-born politician tackles one of the toughest political jobs in the British Empire-the Prime Ministry of Australia. He is 46-year-old Arthur William ("Artie the Artful") Fadden, two years ago a modest backbencher in the Canberra Parliament, last year Australia's Treasurer, this spring Acting Prime Minister. Last week when, to no one's surprise, big, glib Robert Gordon ("Honest Bob") Menzies bowed himself out of the Prime Ministry, Artie the Artful bowed right...
...potent trade unions, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies' War Government is particularly vulnerable to Labor Party criticism. It is a fusion of Australia's two conservative parties, the United Australia and United Country Parties, and has had a majority of only one in the 75-seat Canberra Parliament. The Labor opposition refused to enter the Government after last September's general elections. And to add to Mr. Menzies' political troubles last week, the Government's Parliamentary Whip suddenly died, leaving the Government no majority...
...hours' notice, Australia prepared a rousing reception. Sydney schools were dismissed. At Canberra Parliament declared a recess and Government officials boarded special trains for Sydney. To lonely Australians, lost in the desolate reaches of the Pacific, it was as if a long-expected ally had arrived at last. Streets were jammed as the sailors went ashore, marched through tons of streamers, scraps of paper and confetti to the Town Hall. Girls leaned out of windows, screaming a hysterical welcome. Autograph hunters besieged the grinning...
Less than two hours later at Canberra Airport waiting civil servants saw the big plane lumbering in difficulties. Its pilot seemed to be getting ready to make a pancake landing on the side of a hill. Suddenly the machine came down in a spin, landed on its nose, burst into flames which sealed all its distinguished occupants in death...