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...gilded ballroom of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac, where delegates were served with black caviar from Lake Winnipeg and salmon from the Gaspe, the new United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization came alive. Its job: to do something about hunger in the postwar world...
Thirty-seven nations had joined. Russia had one of the largest delegations (26 members) at Quebec. Day after day the Russian delegates followed the proceedings, waiting for permission from Moscow to sign up. The permission never came...
...strange story. He was born of American parents on a Quebec farm near the New York border, abandoned when four, and taken in by a man named Fulker. Six unhappy years later, he took his foster father's horse & buggy and ran away. He was caught and sent to the Laurentians Shawbridge Boys Farm, was 15 before he was released...
Michael Fulker worked in Quebec's Chateau Frontenac kitchen, grew to manhood among the shanties of Ontario's towns. Then in 1925 he and Alexander Kahn, whom he had met in the detention home, were charged with a murder. Kahn turned King's evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when...
...long, curving road that hugs the fertile banks of the St. Lawrence all the way from Montreal to Quebec, the dollhouse shacks of tourist camps were boarded tight, and French Canadian schoolchildren walked close together against the wind. Everywhere, weeks ahead of the U.S., the birches, beeches and maples passed from red and yellow into sere brown...