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Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin (and Mrs. Curtin) paid a duty visit to Canada last week. Prime Minister Mackenzie King happily showed the Curtins the sights of Ottawa. The visiting Prime Minister's official calls were so routine, his dutiful speech to Canada's Parliament so dull, that Ottawans hardly knew he was there. But newsmen did. Curtin, once a newspaperman himself, gave Canada's Mr. King a dinkum lesson in how to handle the press...
King introduced his guest to Ottawa's press corps. The Australian settled himself into an easy chair, said: "Now put on your wig and gown and put me in the witness box." Someone asked Curtin if he was completely satisfied with the result of the Empire Conference from which he was returning. Said Curtin: "The only man who is completely satisfied is one who has passed into Valhalla or is placed alongside the Almighty...
...Kremlin's North American department. With him to Canada he brought his wife, their 14-year-old son Victor, six trunks, twelve suitcases and the 65-volume Soviet Encyclopedia (Moscow's official compendium of information about the U.S.S.R.). After the barest formalities he settled down to run Ottawa's Soviet Embassy. Under a Minister, its staff had already become Ottawa's second-largest (only the U.S. Embassy staff is bigger...
...Zarubins will occupy 20 of the 32 rooms in the Embassy building, which was once the mansion of Ottawa's lumber and railroad heir, the late John Frederick Booth (father-in-law to Erik, Prince of Denmark). The U.S.S.R. bought the vast pile when Ottawa and Moscow re-established relations two years ago. To the huge reception rooms, socialite Ottawans flock for the capital's poshest receptions...
...London's Soviet Embassy. In October 1942 the Kremlin sent able Feodor Gusev as its first Minister to Canada, later sent him to London to replace Ivan Maisky as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. To Moscow went Russian-speaking Leolyn Dana Wilgress, one of Ottawa's ablest civil servants. While on Canada's Economic Mission to Siberia, Wilgress married a Russian, fitted himself to meet Russians on their own terms...