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...course of one half-hour's brooding over his grave, situated in a less frequented portion of the city, I saw two American enlisted men, one American Red Cross worker, two plaid-skirted Scottish lieutenants and two Italian girls come to pay their respects...
...Laurier House the picture of Mackenzie King's mother is illuminated like a shrine. She was born in New York, in exile, the daughter of his rebel grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...
Mohandas Gandhi, recuperating near Bombay from the effects of his latest protest fast against imprisonment, was rudely referred to in the House of Lords by rugged Scottish Viscount Elibank, who called him "the greatest bamboozler of the century...
That afternoon, at a secret caucus, an emotional Phil Murray addressed P.A.C.'s delegates (from 28 states). In his low, Scottish burr, thrusting his fist forward. Phil Murray said: "Wallace . . . Wallace . . . Wallace. That's it. Just keep pounding...
...Riveter. Scottish-blond General McNair has been called by his good friend George C. Marshall "the brains of the Army." In 1918, McNair at 35 was one of the youngest general officers in the AEF. An artilleryman (which is said to account for his partial deafness), "Whitey" McNair was even then preaching closer coordination between all forces. When World War II drew near, it was McNair whom Marshall picked to weld the biggest, most highly specialized fighting team the U.S. ever...