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...Bannockburn, where he grows acres of onions, Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn once more broke out his battle flag. Last week Canada's most unpredict able politician returned to the Liberal fold he left two years ago, when he quit as Ontario's Premier and abandoned his Party, thus contributing to its defeat...
...year ago, when b,e was re-elected a member of the Legislature as an "Independent Liberal," Hepburn promised his support to Tory Premier George Drew, whom he called "a good citizen and a hardworking public servant." Now Mitch had changed his mind...
Incitement to Hatred. Hepburn sighted his guns at Premier Drew's most vulnerable spot: his campaign against Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's brand-new, popular "baby bonuses" (TIME, July 3). Drew had trumpeted that the bonus was an invasion of Ontario's rights, proclaimed that Ontario was being taxed to appease French Quebec. Cried Hepburn: ". . . an incitement to hatred against a neighboring province, but, worse than that ... an incitement to hatred against one-third of our own Ontario population" (the French Canadians...
Hepburn's unexpected blast left Premier Drew and almost every politician in Canada guessing at Mitch's next move. On national and international questions, Mitch had often been spectacularly wrong. In the early days of the war he had persuaded his Legislature to condemn Mr. King's war effort. The Prime Minister promptly called a national election, was returned with an increased majority. Hepburn gloomily predicted that Germany would beat Russia. Shortly after Pearl Harbor he gravely embarrassed Ottawa by sneering that "the proud U.S. Fleet has gone into hiding." But in earthy Ontario politics, earthy, colorful...
...aerial help either. During the first few weeks of the uprising, the Russian Army twelve miles away did nothing to aid the Partisans, who were under the command of the Polish Government in Exile. Instead it disarmed Partisans. When Madame Helena Sikorska (widow of Poland's late great Premier and commander in chief) and 15 leading Poles protested, Prime Minister Winston Churchill fumed. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden lectured Premier Mikolajczyk. But R.A.F. flyers from Italy made a 1,750-mile round trip to drop a pathetic driblet of supplies to the besieged. Polish paratroops, idle in Scotland...