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Shortly to be transferred to a new branch office in Chicago is Graham Hutton, blond, 36-year-old ex-editorialist of the London Economist, well known to U.S. lecture audiences. Expected to follow him to the U.S. is David Bowes Lyon, the Queen's brother. Strongly resembling the Queen, handsome, intelligent, good-humored Bowes Lyon made his name for efficiency and helpfulness as press officer of the Economic Warfare Ministry...
...Negotiated at Hyde Park with Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King an agreement between the U.S. and Canada to coordinate production facilities (see p. 27). In a seven-hour session the two agreed to exchange defense materials. Canada's dollar exchange will be bolstered by the sale of machine tools, aluminum, ships (perhaps), an unspecified number of Bren machine guns to the U.S. for some $200,000,000 to $300,000,000. Canadian economy, threatened by its sale of wheat, war supplies, etc. to Great Britain for sterling-supplies Britain now gets from the U.S. on a lend...
...asked Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies to postpone his trip to the U.S. and remain for a conference of Dominion leaders: New Zealand's Prime Minister Peter Fraser, on his way to London, South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King, if they could leave their problems at home. The long-awaited Axis drive against the bastions of British sea power, the drive to capture the subject countries of the British Empire and to isolate the English-speaking ones, had begun in earnest...
...said Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, "will stand throughout time as one of the milestones of freedom. It points the way to ultimate and certain victory." Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies broadcast this message of thanks to the U. S.: "You are neutral and we are at war, but you have made the whole world understand that the moral and material might of a great neutral country can always be placed behind the belligerent, who fights for justice." Closer to realism, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa said: "Hitler...
Before a packed gallery of quiet court hangers-on and ragged Lyon supporters, District Attorney Robert F. Bradford '23 and Francis T. Leahy, Lyons' counsel, came out into the trial's second day with both fists flying. Throughout the session, presiding Judge Harold P. Williams had to call for order and compromise between the antagonistic lawyers...