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...years following 1910, he served as an industrial counselor, for fat fees. Aside from his present salary and investments, he has two piddling sources of income. Royalties from his books still trickle in. And on a lake on his 100-acre Kingsmere summer estate, some 15 miles north of Ottawa, the Prime Minister has built a few sturdy cottages, rents them to vacationers...
...most valuable real estate asset also came to him by last will and testament. This is Laurier House, bequeathed in 1921 by Wilfrid Laurier's widow. The Prime Minister uses it as both home and headquarters. A twelve-room, three-story house on Ottawa's Laurier Avenue, it is highceilinged, oak-paneled, about 75 years old. Friends contributed $30,000 for modernization...
...vast American armada which seized Eire in 1945 invaded Britain and liberated the island from the Nazi domination. . . . The Chamberlain Government returned to London from its exile in Ottawa. . . . The old Parliament reassembled for the first time since that day in 1942 when Hitler had sat in the Speaker's chair and Mr. James Maxton [sharp-tongued Labor M.P.] had been shot dead as he rushed forward to brain the Führer with the Mace...
...Government in Exile. The reply to a speech by Chamberlain, conveniently resurrected, was given by Lord Winterton, "supported by disorderly cheers and a playful shot toward the ceiling by an enthusiastic resister." Said he: "He [Chamberlain] has spent the last five years in Ottawa and Washington. We have heard his voice on the BBC. It was indeed a voice from afar! I rise to say with respect that his speech shows he is just a little out of touch with public opinion here (cheers and shots from the galleries). . , . We must now entrust to untired minds and fresh bodies...
...Ottawa Journal, usually a moderate critic, set the Tory line of attack with an editorial that went after Minister McNaughton hammer & tongs. Said the Journal: "General McNaughton's position . . . is highly vulnerable. He entered the Cabinet to do a particular job; he remains . . . to do a diametrically opposed job-declaring the while his disbelief in the thing he is doing [sending conscripts overseas]. Whatever that invites, it doesn't invite confidence...