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Even the dignified pretense that the representatives of His Majesty's Government are living in Ottawa on expense accounts ranging from $2.50 per day for a full delegate down to $1 for a secretary was gayly exploded by Montreal Gossip Colyumist Margaret Currie. "What a thing it is to be a statesman!" wrote she. "A little bird told me that the Premier was host to all the delegates, not only for their accommodation and meals, but for the special train itself which bore them from Quebec to Ottawa. Perhaps this is the first time Canada has ever had a Prime...
...carillon in Ottawa's Peace Tower, Carilloneur Robert J. Donnell played in succession all the local airs of the Empire countries, burst into "Pomp & Circumstance" at the approach in an open carriage of His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby (pronounced punsunby), Earl of Bessborough and Governor General of the Dominion of Canada...
...Dominions charging higher prices for their food, even though it should enter the Mother Country duty free. Since Mr. Runciman is a leading British financier, industrialist and shipowner, and since he is president of the Board of Trade (a British Cabinet post), such statements from his wife set Ottawa by the ears, made it harder to "muddle through." Within 24 hours the Conference Press spokesman announced, "There will be no more interviewing of wives of delegates...
...British Protectorate of Bechuanaland and on the North (of course) by Northern Rhodesia which is a non-self-governing-colony without a parliament or premier. Proud indeed are Southern Rhodesians of their Parliament and of hardy, pioneering Premier Howard Unwin Moffat, their Chief Delegate last week at the Ottawa Conference...
...Ottawa last week Vice President Sean O'Kelly of the Free State set forth his Government's view informally thus: "It must be remembered that the land of Ireland, almost all of it, was at one time or another taken by force (stolen, one could truthfully say) from the rightful owners, the Irish people, by English invaders. . . . After a long struggle the English consented to let the Irish buy back their own lands at a high price [by paying the 'land annuities']. "We have now refused," summed up Mr. O'Kelly, "to continue...