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...World War II Canada has conscripted 15,000 men for home service, has sent 175,000 volunteers abroad. Last week Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King called for a national plebiscite on conscription for overseas service...
...Children's Anthology-ed. by William Lyon Phelps...
...politics when, as the logical successor to the late, great Sir Wilfred Laurier, he was kept from the Liberal Party leadership by a deal designed to prevent another Catholic French Canadian from becoming Prime Minister. To break the Party stalemate he threw his support to the then untried William Lyon Mackenzie King in a deal of his own. For French Canada he retained special language, education and religious rights...
...slumber Canada's opposition party turned over in its sleep last week and threatened to wake up and scrap. The Conservatives chose a new Party leader, a downright man with a low opinion of Canada's war policies. He will have the opportunity of pushing William Lyon Mackenzie King off the narrowing plank on which the Liberal Prime Minister has been teetering since war began...
After one of the most tense weeks of his public life, President Roosevelt hurried to Hyde Park, to rest, to vote, to confer with Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. At 5 o'clock on a rainy morning the Prime Minister's private car was left on a Poughkeepsie siding. Attached to it was the private car of Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. Said the Prime Minister, asked what he would discuss with the President: Everything...