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Major (no title) James Coldwell, leader of the CCF, usually sees eye-to-eye with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King on foreign policy. In New York City last week Socialist Coldwell voiced a Canadian criticism of the Dumbarton Oaks formula for a world security league. The stronger secondary nations, like Canada, said Mr. Coldwell, should have better representation on the proposed world council...
...friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped down last week to let a younger man step up. On his 75th birthday, kindly, white-haired Leighton Goldie McCarthy resigned as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. To his post Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King promptly appointed McCarthy's assistant, Lester Bowles Pearson, O.B.E., one of the ablest men in Canada's small but expert foreign service...
...House of Commons, members fidgeted. They sat late, for they were going home for Christmas and they wanted to be off. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wound up his speech: "No succor could come to the enemy equal to that he will receive from anything that goes to show that a Parliament in ... the British Commonwealth ... is not united in support of its fighting men. . . ." Then (1:20 a.m.) the black-robed clerk finally rose, polled the members, bowed to the Speaker's chair and announced: "Ayes 143, Nays...
GEORGE W. LYON Pittsburgh
...jampacked public galleries were sober and attentive. On the floor, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his new Defense Minister, General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, faced a tense House of Commons, summoned to hear the facts about the Army's reinforcements crisis (TIME, Nov. 27 et ante). The Prime Minister picked up a piece of paper. Loudly and clearly, head bobbing, he read an order-in-council.* The Government had decided to compel home-defense draftees ("zombies") to serve overseas...