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Then the President moved on to Ogdensburg to meet his old friend William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada. They met in the railway car Roald Amundsen in the Rome Yard track at Ogdensburg, while the sun beat down unmercifully outside. Only Secretary of War Stimson witnessed the meeting. Outside laborers stuffed huge hunks of ice into the car's air-conditioning system. A few grizzled chickens grubbed aimlessly among the weeds that all but concealed the adjoining tracks. A group of truck drivers idled about the foot of a monument that marks the site of Fort...
...France, a self-sufficient nation, was hungry was indicated by a report from Lyon that since its arrival the Nazi Army of Occupation had seized 140 trainloads of provisions, paying for them with 1,000,000,000 francs worth of "bonds." To French hopes that at least some of the confiscated goods would be returned, the Nazi welfare authorities replied: "It is not the conqueror's business to relieve the world misery and distress caused by the fault of the vanquished...
...voice, brisk of manner, like a hornet for energy (he has worked between 16 and 20 hours a day for the last month), J. L. Ralston is widely considered the ablest man in Canada's wartime Government and the one most likely to succeed Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. His report glowed...
...clear that what remained of France had resigned itself to becoming an agrarian State. With few industries, only two great cities (Marseille and Lyon), a population consisting mainly of peasant landowners, the France that curves about the Mediterranean had no other choice. Its chief products are poultry and cheese, wine and tobacco, truffles, pâté de foie gras. The silk industry has its own cocoons in southern Cévennes. There are tall pine forests along the Atlantic coast. Most of Petain's decrees last week dealt with family life and rural homesteads. One law provided that...
...Lyon's worst fears seemed confirmed when Mr. Towne, a lusty cigar chewer who does much of his cogitating in a Turkish bath, picked New Jerseyite Jimmy Lydon as his Tom Brown, then achieved the casting coup of the century by selecting Billy Halop, ringleader of the Dead End Kids, to play a Rugby blood. Though the Towne publicity department explained this choice as the result of a sensational Halop imitation of Basil Rathbone, alarmed Rugbyites peppered Hollywood with protests that gave the British censors some of the liveliest reading of the year...