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...fourth time in his 37-year political career that Mr. King had suffered personal defeat. As before, he would seek this time to be returned by some safely Liberal constituency (probably near Ottawa) in a by-election. Actual by-election balloting might be unnecessary: other parties were not likely to oppose Mr. King, and he would win by acclamation. Whatever happened, the Prime Minister indicated, he would have a seat in plenty of time to attend the opening of Parliament. The date for that, he said...
Doctor of Laws: Clarence D. Howe, Ottawa, Canadian Minister of Munitions and Supply: "A gifted son of New England, a loyal and effective citizen of Canada; an engineer who hurled munitions against Hitler long before we fired a shot...
...most startling speeches ever made to a provincial house. In a bull voice he roared his personal view of his own party, the opposition, the people, even the weather. Gist: they were all awful. When World War II came along, he went overseas as a major. In Ottawa last week, officials who should know were betting that he would wind up in Prime Minister King's Cabinet...
...toughest problems ahead was Dominion-Provincial relations: how should control of such matters as taxation, national health legislation, natural resources be divided between Ottawa and the Provinces? Before the issues could be settled, it might be necessary to rewrite Canada's Constitution. Another problem was housing. The present acute shortage, aggravated by the return of servicemen, was not just a by-product of war; it was the result of almost 15 years during which there had been almost no new building. The war against Japan was still to be won. Reconstruction and reconversion were just beginning...
...court action in Ottawa involved Rothschild-owned shares of the Royal Dutch Co. (oil). Worth 1,534,000 Dutch florins, they had been deposited in a Montreal bank in 1939 for safekeeping. But when the Baron reached the U.S. and asked for his florins, he found they had been impounded by Canada's Custodian of Enemy Property. The Baron could have his money, said the custodian, only if he would pay a $21,844.16 handling charge. The Baron appealed. He claimed that he had never been an enemy of Canada, that therefore Canada had no right to take custody...