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...first day of debate, smooth and usually imperturbable Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was exasperated and beside himself at Opposition tactics. In an ominous tone he snapped: "If we (the Government) cannot get cooperation we shall have to consider our responsibility. . . ." Ears pricked up all over Canada. This sounded like a threat to dissolve the House, which would mean a general election...
...Coldstream Guards cultivated the necessary manners and arts. Naval schools (Osborne and Dartmouth), a sea tour as a snotty (midshipman) before and during World War I shaped him in his family's marine tradition. A childhood friendship produced his Duchess and his Queen, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, a gentle-born commoner. They have not yet produced a son; the heir, Princess Elizabeth, comes of royal age (18) next month. Her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, is 13. They are a happy family...
Died. Frederick Jerome Lyon, 65, spectacular Connecticut-born soldier of fortune. Highlights of his early career: in '94 jailed in Brazil for running guns to the revolutionists; in '95 shipwrecked off South Africa; in '95 severely wounded on Jameson's raid from Mafeking into the Transvaal; the next year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked...
Prime Minister William Lyon Mac kenzie King last week convinced Canadi ans that ill-health was not the most important reason why flinty Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, Commander in Chief overseas, had been retired (TIME...
Inevitable Rivalry? Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King thought that it did. Sharply he voiced Canada's fear that she might be crushed in an "inevitable rivalry" between great powers. Said he: "Could Canada, situated as she is between the United States, the Soviet Union and the British Commonwealth, support such an idea [of rivalry...