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Across the aisle, the Progressive Conservatives whooped and hollered, too-even though they had been caught flatfooted. When at last Progressive Conservative Opposition Leader Gordon Graydon could be heard, he said: "Well, Mr. Speaker, at last they have been forced to go to the country. . . . We shall be ready . . . to form the next Government...
...week would, Mr. King hoped, be short. But with San Francisco in the offing, a parliamentary discussion of Canadian foreign policy seemed inevitable. As a starter, Mr. King was ready with the names of Canadian delegates. Some would be representatives of the people: CCF Leader Major James Coldwell; Gordon Graydon, Tory leader in Parliament; Justice Minister (and Quebecker) Louis Stephen St. Laurent; Senator James H. King. A woman would be chosen, too. Some of the delegates would be experts-men like Hume Wrong and Norman Robertson, suave and able top-rankers in the External Affairs Department; men like Lester Bowles...
...Canada. When a reporter asked for names, Mr. King sidestepped. He said he felt that the opposition delegates should be picked from among men who sit in the House of Commons. The meaning was unmistakable. Major James Coldwell, leader of the socialist CCF, would go. So, probably, would Gordon Graydon, Parliamentary leader of the Tories. But John Bracken, national Tory leader who is not a member of Parliament, would stay at home...
...second sitting of the House ended in a scene which had the galleries popeyed with amazement. The Prime Minister, red-faced and angry, stood beside his desk, shook an angry finger at Opposition Leader Gordon Graydon, and shouted: "My honorable friend cannot tell me to sit down. . . ." As Mr. King took a firm step towards the broad, green-carpeted aisle which separates the Government from Opposition, Graydon repeated his demand: "I ask you to sit down." Members pounded their desks, shouted in excitement until the calm voice of Mr. Speaker restored order...
Said he: "These [documents] are of great concern not only to Canada but to other United Nations." This week Canadians were none the wiser as to what these documents contained. But after reading them, Opposition Leader Gordon Graydon said flatly: "The Government has not told the whole story. ..." By thus taking his critics into his confidence, Mr. King had avoided a public answer to reports long current in London and Ottawa. According to these reports, McNaughton and General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, new commander of the British invasion forces, clashed at every turn. Unanswered, too, was the charge that McNaughton...