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...year Wingate was summoned urgently to London. Stepping off the plane, still in his tropical bush shirt, he hurried to Downing Street, to lunch with Churchill. The Prime Minister then had a Scottish express train stopped, the astonished Mrs. Wingate* bundled off, took husband & wife aboard ship to the Quebec Conference...
...Quebec Wingate was a hit with President Roosevelt and General Marshall. By invitation he came to the U.S., visited war factories, ate dehydrated food, sampled weapons and aircraft. What he asked for was shipped ahead. For his air chief, Washington assigned Cochran, who named him "The Man," instantly liked him. Wingate called him "Dear Phil." To others the pair was "The Beard and the Wing...
Along narrow St. James Street (Canada's Wall Street) in Montreal, financiers twitched and twittered: this was a step toward nationalization of all Quebec's water power, which generates 53% of Canada's hydroelectricity. There was nothing the financiers or the company's shareholders could do about it except argue about the allotted payment for their holdings...
Plus whatever honest interest Premier Godbout had in cheap public power, he was clearly bidding for reelection. He was well aware that his French-Canadian constituents were in a mood to applaud any blow at the trustards, Quebec's epithet for the English-Canadian capitalists who control much of the Province's industry...
...Supremely unimportant" probabilities: born Harry F. Gerguson in 1890 in 1) Vilna, Russia, or 2) Hillsboro, Ill., or 3) Manhattan's lower East Side. † Other New World Habsburgs: Archduke Otto and youngest brother, Archduke Rodolphe in Washington; Mother Empress Zita and Archduchess Elizabeth Charlotte in Quebec; Archduchesses Adelaide and Charlotte in New York City...