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Because the Dominion is at war-she proudly emphasized her Statehood by separately declaring war on Germany-the traditional gold-braided jackets and fluttery plumed hats of Canadian officials on State occasions were omitted last week when Parliament convened in Ottawa. In sombre morning clothes the Governor General entered the oak-paneled, scarlet-trimmed Senate: pippin-cheeked Scottish Novelist Baron Tweedsmuir, gravely embodying (according to law) "the Person of the King in Canada...
...very comfortable position. A week before he had been knifed by a member of his own Party, Ontario's Premier politician, who has something of the late Huey Long's capacity for raising political hell. Mitchell Hepburn rammed through the Ontario Legislature a resolution condemning the Ottawa Government for inefficiency in conducting the war (TIME, Jan. 29). With this Liberal stiletto still quivering between his broad shoulders, Prime Minister King prepared to face the verbal scalpels of Conservative Surgeon Manion...
...first press conference as U. S. Minister to Canada, earnest young James Henry Roberts Cromwell earnestly urged Ottawa interviewers to "forget all this richest-girl-in-the-world stuff," to address him and his wife (Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke) as "just Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell" (see above...
Into Ontario's Legislature Premier Hepburn introduced a resolution condemning the Ottawa Government's alleged inefficiency in prosecuting the war. Specifically, Premier Hepburn attacked Prime Minister King for allowing the sale of 1,000,000 bushels of Canadian wheat to Russia, "a potential enemy"; drilling Air Force recruits without sufficient clothing in zero weather; causing great increases in tuberculosis by under-equipping soldiers...
Promptly in Ottawa bookish Canadian Governor General Baron Tweedsmuir and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, both adept quotation spotters, expressed themselves as "most interested in the authorship of the quotation," but stumped. Cried Canadian Parliamentary Librarian Francis Hardy: "I have looked in every known work of appropriate reference without finding...