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...ghost walked last week along the northern frontier of the U.S. In Canada, which more than once in World War II has been a proving ground for measures later introduced by Washington.* Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King took steps to cut down drinking. He announced sharp reductions in the alcoholic content of beer and liquors-beer by 10%, wine by 20%, spirits by 30%. He also forbade all advertising of beer and liquors after a six weeks' adjustment period, asked for shorter selling hours in liquor stores...
Last week in London the U.S. Army Air Forces commissioned Major Benjamin Lyon, 41, of Baltimore, Hollywood and British Broadcasting Corp. The Army also qualified him for active service, presumably as an earth-bound intelligence officer (despite his 1,100 pre-war flying hours, his transport pilot's ticket...
...Lyon, hell-flying hero of the epic Hell's Angels and many another derring-do flicker, the event was a victory over brass-hat morale builders who had wanted him to be a tidily uniformed entertainer. But to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who, since November 1939, have listened in weekly to an Empire broadcast titled Hi, Gang!, the U.S.A.A.F.'s gain was a loss felt from Iceland to New Guinea. For unnumbered U.S. servicemen have also been eager tuners-in to the show which Ben Lyon, his wife Bebe Daniels, and Vic Oliver have...
After a national plebiscite Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King took the power, through an order-in-council, to send conscripts abroad-but has not used it. Last week Australia's dour, lank John Curtin sought the same power. Before Parliament was a draft-act amendment that, if it did not carry, might cause his Government to fall. To U.S. soldiers who had come 8,000 miles to help defend Australia, it seemed ludicrous that Australian troops, aside from volunteers, could not move freely throughout the South Pacific. But the Labor Party's no-conscript-overseas plank...
...Empire. A vote getter and a wily operator who has remained Premier of Manitoba Province through a series of four coalition Governments that have invariably swallowed up his opposition, Bracken was a wise choice for the Tories. They have been unable to outdo the conservatism of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party. At the same time they have offered no program to offset the "frightening gains" of the mildly socialistic C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation). In Bracken the die-hards saw a realist with statesmanlike qualities that were most eloquently expressed in his backing...