Word: curtins
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Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin (and Mrs. Curtin) paid a duty visit to Canada last week. Prime Minister Mackenzie King happily showed the Curtins the sights of Ottawa. The visiting Prime Minister's official calls were so routine, his dutiful speech to Canada's Parliament so dull, that Ottawans hardly knew he was there. But newsmen did. Curtin, once a newspaperman himself, gave Canada's Mr. King a dinkum lesson in how to handle the press...
King introduced his guest to Ottawa's press corps. The Australian settled himself into an easy chair, said: "Now put on your wig and gown and put me in the witness box." Someone asked Curtin if he was completely satisfied with the result of the Empire Conference from which he was returning. Said Curtin: "The only man who is completely satisfied is one who has passed into Valhalla or is placed alongside the Almighty...
King looked amazed as Canadian correspondents sought to draw out Jack Curtin on his ideas for an Empire Secretariat, which King opposes. The Conference had not adopted Curtin's views on centralization but it had not changed his opinions. He said...
Secretary Viscount Cranborne. He met Australia's bluff John Curtin for the first time...
Family Affair. When the Prime Ministers' conference opened last fortnight, Australia's John Curtin flatly proposed a permanent secretariat of the Common wealth - in other words, the permanent center of a permanent power-bloc which, so Curtin thought, would insure his country's security in the remote Pacific. Well aware that Canada's Mackenzie King had long opposed the idea, Curtin stubbornly pursued his aim, said: "If I cannot have four brothers, I will make do with three...