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Canada's Liberals held their first national nominating convention in 1919-before that, party leaders were picked in parliamentary caucus-and the leader they picked then has led them ever since. With the retirement of William Lyon Mackenzie King, they will meet next week to pick another leader...
...last parliamentary appearance as Canada's Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King had put on a black suit, a crisp white shirt, a grey tie with pearl stickpin. Hardly anyone noticed him as he slipped into his chair in the green House of Commons chamber. Only 47 of the 245 members were at their desks. The rest had already left for their summer holidays...
Throughout the occupation, M. Sacha Guitry, garrulous, versatile luminary of the French stage, accepted so many Nazi cheers that his countrymen threw him in jail after the liberation. The French courts cleared him of the charge of collaboration. But as Guitry found out in Lyon last week, some people of the Resistance...
Guitry's business in Lyon was the gala premiéere of his newest film, The Comedian. It turned out to be one of his usual hits. When the show was over, he and his leading lady, Lina Marconi, were driven away for a gay supper. At the lowered barrier of a railway crossing, however, men sprang from the darkness. Said their leader: "We are terribly sorry, Monsieur Sacha Guitry, but we are men of the Resistance and we think it advisable that you come with...
...assassinated by the Nazis. If you did not know it, now you do. Take off your hat and observe one minute of silence." Clenching his teeth, Sacha complied. Notoriously fond of talking, he was silent for an entire minute. His captors took flashbulb pictures which turned up in the Lyon newspaper Le Progres. Humiliated but unharmed and untouched, he was then permitted to return to his hotel and leave town in the morning...