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...anyone brash enough to accuse corpulent, complacent Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of diddling & dawdling in getting the Dominion on a war footing, he can truthfully crack back that Canada has just fought out on that issue an election which his Government won by a landslide (TIME, April 8). That, however, was before the Nazis crashed through Flanders, crushed France. Last week the hottest issue in the Dominion was again Government war diddling & dawdling. Only wartime censorship averted open scandal. Items...
...copyright-hating Producer Gene Towne, fresh from Swiss Family Robinson, proceeded to lay his busy hands on Thomas Hughes's 83-year-old celebration of Rugby and British public-school life, across the Atlantic to Hollywood came a cold shudder. "Presumption," snorted Rugby's head, Mr. Hugh Lyon, anticipating something worse than Robert Taylor's A Yank at Oxford. Mr. Lyon was not placated by Producer Towne's choice of a British director, Robert Stevenson, and of the impeccable Sir Cedric Hardwicke to play the part of Rugby's greatest head, Dr. Thomas Arnold...
Farther south, 50,000 troops of the eastern Maginot garrisons fought a fierce but losing fight on the Maiche Plain before retreating across the border into Switzerland. The onrushing German columns, their tanks and trucks beginning to break down after strenuous campaigning, pushed down through Lyon, "Pittsburgh of France," but a segment of fierce French resistance formed west of there at Clermont-Ferrand and with other French remnants from the Belfort district momentarily pocketed the German elements...
...past which U. S. citizens know so little about (e.g., that in the War of 1812 all the burning was not done by the British; U. S. invaders burned Government buildings at York, now Toronto). Incidentally drawing an entertaining portrait of Canada's vague, unsinkable Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, he shows how Canada's "no commitments" policy between wars weakened British foreign policy at certain crucial moments: the Manchurian and Ethiopian crises particularly...