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...mountains and the icier indifference of officialdom have for 13 years raised impassable barriers against a military highway from the U.S. to Alaska. Last week came a sudden thaw. From Ottawa (not Washington) the word went out that Alaska may get its highway at last...
...Asked for comment on the scornful words allegedly uttered by Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn ("The proud United States Fleet is in hiding . . ."), President Roosevelt took refuge in a morose silence. Any comment, he said, would have to come from Ottawa...
...company, and if you don't go nuts between 10 a.m. and sundown, you're tough enough to laugh off anything." Fortnight ago, Fred Allen, with his razor-strop smoothness, put on a savage parody (Clipso, the aristocrat of soap chips, presents Susan Spavin, Girl Sandhog). In Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s general manager, W. E. Gladstone Murray, said he was going to work up a new "code of good taste" for afternoon programs...
When nightfall shut off the brief winter afternoon, the train was sliding swiftly south toward Vermont. Newsmen on the train were bored, listless, let down after the four days of pressure in Ottawa. They had watched 12,000,000 Canadians having their greatest day since the King & Queen visited in 1939; had heard the sturdily sesquipedalian Prime Minister of England wow the House of Commons with his oak-hearted phrases, with a tactful tribute (in French) to the loyal French-Canadians; they had listened as he recalled the 1940 prophecy of French generals, that "in three weeks England will have...
...Britons, toasting each other at home or dancing in their favorite nightclubs, it was a strange celebration in a stranger time. Britain's Prime Minister was spending the last hours of 1941 in a train en route from Ottawa to Washington. Aristocratic Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, was just back from a conference in the Kremlin. The ghost of Neville Chamberlain might well have rubbed its eyes...