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...attic study at Ottawa's Laurier House, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King worked quietly and alone, clearing his desk. Soon he, too, would leave for London to join the other Commonwealth Ministers in their first meeting since World War II began...
...quick results. His tools were tireless industry, forceful writing, lust for information. He found his spiritual home in Winnipeg, when the Free Press's owner, Sir Clifford Sifton, gave him a free hand as editor. When Sir Clifford broke with Canada's great Liberal French leader, Laurier, on the issue of U.S.-Canadian reciprocity, Dafoe supported Laurier. But when Laurier failed to support conscription in World War I, Dafoe broke with him, threw the Free Press weight behind Conservative Sir Robert Borden...
...Lapointe saw Canada become embittered, intolerant, nearly fly apart over the issue of conscription, which French Canada opposed. He never altered his own opposition to it. In 1919 he ran into the bluntest fact in Canadian politics when, as the logical successor to the late, great Sir Wilfred Laurier, he was kept from the Liberal Party leadership by a deal designed to prevent another Catholic French Canadian from becoming Prime Minister. To break the Party stalemate he threw his support to the then untried William Lyon Mackenzie King in a deal of his own. For French Canada he retained special...
...Supply under quiet, hard-working Minister Clarence D. Howe. Mr. Howe has spent much time in Washington, has much respect for the U. S. commissioners and what they have managed to do up to now. But Canada's dollar-a-year-men (Ottawa's swank Chateau Laurier swarms with them) unanimously declare that the U. S. is bound to have many a headache, many a defense delay unless a board or a supply department with real powers and a single head is substituted for the present Washington setup...
Poetry-loving Bachelor Mackenzie King spends so much time at his country house, "Kingsmere," that Mitch Hepburn dubbed him "The Hermit of Kingsmere." In win-ter he lives at "Laurier House" in Ottawa, which Sir Wilfred left to the Liberal Party. A Gladstonian Liberal, the red-faced Prime Minister once investigated industrial relations for the Rockefeller Institute, worked out a plan of employer-employe representation that was put into practice by Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., Bethlehem Steel Co. and others. He is just the sort of "safe" Liberal that Canadians could trust to see them through the war without grabbing...