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Canadian industrialists bombarded the Government with complaints that for even 30,000 young men to get even 30 days in training camps was taking so many skilled workers out of factories as to hamper the main Dominion war effort: industrial production. Originally Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, when the draft bill was being prepared, asked Canadian Army bigwigs what was the very shortest possible training period for draftees which would make any sense at all from a military point of view. He was answered: two months. The 30-day camping period, a political compromise, was an expression...
...conquering Germans have requisitioned nothing from unoccupied France because, except for its huge wine industry, no important staples come from the unoccupied area. Mother Filloux still serves her internationally relished goose-liver pâté and fat-breasted pullets on her terrace at Lyon. Broiled trout are still to be had at the famed little Hôtel du Château at Randan, and crawfish at Robinson's, outside Vichy. The good & great cooks of France will see that she goes hungry palatably. But there are no more tarts in Vichy. Apple tarts have disappeared from...
...Received messages congratulating him on his escape from the palace bombings from the Duke of Windsor, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn, Governor of Newfoundland, and his War Cabinet...
...club is honoring his memory by distributing salty Sumner sayings, which are a joy to every good Republican. More importantly, the anniversary was marked last week by the publication of a centennial edition of Sumner's Folkways (Ginn; $4), a profoundly influential book. Wrote Yale's William Lyon Phelps, a fervent Sumner admirer, in the introduction: "Folkways is a book that never was a best seller and has never stopped selling. It has a steady persistence, reminding us of the tide, that makes no sound and fury and that nothing can stop...
...occasion for last week's stirrings was the new collaboration in defense with the U. S. arranged at Ogdensburg, N. Y. by Franklin Roosevelt and Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The arrangement itself was greeted in Canada with delight. Canadians like the U. S. They have to: The Dominion of Canada is vast but inhabited Canada amounts to a corridor, nowhere much wider than 200 miles, which lies snug against 3,000 miles of U. S. border...