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...westering sun, shining through old-fashioned green window shades, filled the office on the second floor of Ottawa's East Block with tawny light. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King sat at his desk, smiling. The 30 newsmen who were ushered in at 20 minutes to 4 were expectant, for Mr. King's press conferences are few & far between. The newsmen were not disappointed...
Precisely at 9 p.m., the Dominion-wide network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. tied into station CBO, in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier. There, in ail armchair at a desk, sat Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, facing two microphones. He was stripped for action-coat and vest unbuttoned, tie and detachable collar removed (later he spruced up for photographers). For 24 minutes he read from a 4,000-word manuscript, now & then gesturing with his right fast. At countless radios, the people listened...
Even as Prime Minister King spoke, on the seventh floor of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier (see above), his hope of avoiding wartime political controversy went glimmering. Down in a gilded ballroom on the first floor, National Tory Leader John Bracken was addressing a Party convention. Some 500 Tories, banquet-fed on roast beef and raspberry roll, heard Bracken roar a familiar Tory charge: "inadequacy of [Army] reinforcements...
While Washington last week hemmed & hawed over the problem of helping the world's devastated countries to reconstruct themselves, Ottawa launched its own scheme. Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley announced a $15,000,000 credit agreement with Czechoslovakia. It was the first loan under the Dominion's new Export Credits Insurance...
...Government restricted deliveries, gave priorities to householders with seven days' supply or less. Because of anticipated increases in Europe's needs, the Government last week was reportedly considering resumption of meat rationing. The manufacture of evening dresses, double-breasted coats and pleated trousers is prohibited. In Ottawa a Government spokesman said: "There certainly is no abundance of women's & children's clothing. . . . We are pretty darn short of things...