Word: ottawas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron Byng was expected, as a matter of course, to call Mr. King to the Premiership. Interest quickened as to whether "the Premier-elect" could form his Cabinet soon enough to hasten from Ottawa to London in time for the Imperial Conference in October...
...commander, General Julian Hedgeworth George Byng. It noted him again when he went out to Canada (1921) as Governor General Baron Byng of Vimy. Last week it learned with pleasure that 200 of his former officers were feting him at the fourth annual Vimy Dinner, given at Government House, Ottawa...
...constituents, are to decide whether the Prince Albert seat in the House of Commons is a chattel to be passed from hand to hand at the whim of a chosen few, or whether the electors themselves are to have a voice as to who shall represent them at Ottawa. You are to decide whether the ballot is to be loaded so that the Liberal candidate is presented on the ballot with all his rank and title while the Independent candidate is robbed of the Military Cross which he won in France...
...King smiled amusedly at this bombast. After a short visit to Prince Albert, he returned to Ottawa and allowed the Liberal steam roller in Saskatchewan to obliterate doughty Captain Burgess, M. C., six ballots...
Last week the throne of Great Britain fell. Fell likewise the English Constitution, history's most potent myth. The Houses of Parliament followed the example of those in Ottawa--they went up in flames. Mobs bearing the Red flag and singing the "International" possessed themselves of Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square. Hotels and public buildings were sacked. The aristocracy was obliterated, the proletariat emancipated. Cockney Lenins were supreme. The greatest cataclysm since the Black Plaguo, had wrecked the greatest empire since Caosar Augustus...