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...road to power he had made many enemies. His chief rival was dapper, wily ex-Premier U Saw. He had accused Aung San of being a British puppet, refused to sign the independence agreement in London because it might lead to dominion status instead of full independence for Burma. Last year gunmen fired three shots into U Saw's car; glass cut his face. He accused Aung San of planning the attack, and tightened the guard on his fortress-like house on a lake seven miles from Rangoon...
...whole affair was off circulated among Britain's matchmakers. To see his girl at all, Philip had to slip secretly through a side door of the Palace or arrange clandestine rendezvous through his cousin, the Duchess of Kent. Then, last week, after sounding out his Government and his Dominion Ministers, King George inserted a notice in the Court Circular. "It is with the greatest pleasure," it ran, "that the King and Queen announce the betrothal of their beloved daughter the Princess Elizabeth to Lieut. Philip Mountbatten...
...Wednesday night delegates had debated Canada's housing problem for many hours, had ended by placing it squarely on the shoulders of the Dominion Government. J. O. Asselin, chairman of Montreal's Executive Committee, gave the keynote. "Canada's national housing policy," he cried, "forgets 45% of the population of the country and makes provision for adequate shelter, at the most, of 10% of Canadians. ... As long as existing gaps continue to riddle the national housing policy, it cannot be said that Canadians as a people are either well-housed or have any prospect of being...
...week's end a special committee got ready to go to Ottawa to demand a Dominion-subsidized, low cost, low rental housing program. Jessica's last bulletin sped it on its way: "The strength of true democracy lies in sound local government. And the strength of local government lies in cooperative effort...
...should have seen the bathrooms." Her supporters went to the State Legislature, got a special grant of $300,000 for a new school. Two frame buildings were moved from a wartime airbase, tucked safely away in a rustic corner of U.C.L.A.'s campus, where Miss Seeds owes dominion not to the city but to the University...