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Canada's Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King arrived ten minutes later by train from New York and took up residence at Blair House. The talks between the three men whose nations had collaborated on the atomic bomb began at lunch...
...tariff was slipped unobtrusively into the budget at the last minute, during the absence in England of Canada's most articulate champion of free trade: Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King-and wholly without his knowledge...
...trip across, William Lyon Mackenzie King was the only one of the Queen Mary's passengers to have a suite, although ex-U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle, British Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Lady Portal were also aboard. As the Mary edged up to Southampton Sunday noon, the Prime Minister (in pale grey suit, blue tie) gawped momentarily at a quayside thronged with cheering people, then noted that they were cheering British prisoners of war arriving simultaneously at an adjacent pier. The Prime Minister waved, and joined in the cheering...
Rewards. For those who resisted Nazi favors, things were looking up. Both Casals and Thibaud, waiting for the tribunal to meet, were passing their time concertizing in France, Switzerland and England. Conductor Paul Paray, who defied Cortot by resigning from the Lyon radio symphony rather than fire Jews, announced that he was off to the U.S. to conduct the Boston Symphony...
This time William Lyon Mackenzie King, obviously sniffing with anticipation, was ready. He rose in the House of Commons to define clearly his Government's (i.e., Canada's) views...