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...Union Nationale's Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis. A political opportunist who talks like a fascist about Jews and harries labor unions, Duplessis was Quebec's Premier when World War II began. He took a beating when he tried to make trouble for Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King by calling an election on the issue of provincial rights in wartime. This time he shrewdly capitalized on Quebec's dislike of war, conscription, beat Liberal Premier Adélard Godbout...
...been head of a government longer than any other living leader won another round last week. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King sat in the House of Commons, heard it for the fourth time in eleven years vote unanimously for a Government bill. The bill: an act to authorize payment of cash allowances to Canadian parents for every child under 16 (TIME, July...
Politician and Mystic. In his study at Laurier House the picture of Mackenzie King's mother is illuminated like a shrine. She was born in New York, in exile, the daughter of his rebel grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...
Over the teacups at Canada House, off London's Trafalgar Square, William Lyon Mackenzie King last week told 14 Canadian correspondents that he was happy about his trip to the Empire Conference, about the outcome, about everything...
...that agreement, President Roosevelt in 1941 gave Canada's war industry a shot in the arm. He and his old friend & fellow Harvardman, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, initially arranged for the U.S. to buy $200 to $300 million-worth of war supplies in Canada. Prime purpose: to provide Canada with sorely needed U.S. dollars. It was a pre-Pearl Harbor device to help Britain and her Dominions "short...