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Died. Maurice C. Latta, 78, White House Executive Clerk and its oldest employee (for every Administration since McKinley's); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. A dour, studiously anonymous "indispensable," "Judge" Latta bossed the more than 200 White House Administration employees. As official messenger, he was privileged to interrupt the U.S. legislature-with the words "I am directed by the President of the United States to deliver a message in writing...
...Canada's delegate on the U.N. Security Council (TIME, Jan. 5), the government finally picked one of the best-known figures in Canada: General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, 60. His qualifications : overseas commander of Canadian troops (1939-43), Defense Minister (1944-45), Canada's No. 1 atomic energy expert and representative on the U.N. Commission on Atomic Energy, a job which he will keep...
Tousle-haired Andrew George Latta McNaughton, lifelong professional soldier and onetime commander of the first Canadian Army overseas, had entered politics in earnest. He had learned already that politics...
...vacant post the Prime Minister appointed popular General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, who less than a year ago was relieved as commander of Canadian Army troops overseas by Minister Ralston himself. What the new Minister intended to do about reinforcing the Army he did not say. Some thought that he might declare Canada out of the Italian campaign, augment western forces with the troops from Italy. But it was sure that he would not use the zombies. In his first public statement after taking office he said: "I am firmly convinced that the best hope lies in the maintenance...
France. The Imperial General Staff called then on Canada's No. 1 soldier, Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, for help in holding the Channel ports. McNaughton visited Calais and Dunkirk in a destroyer, which was bombed and machine-gunned by the Germans, and returned to tell the War Cabinet and Winston Churchill that he did not believe the ports could be held. The British concurred. So the great drama of the Dunkirk beaches passed the Canadians...