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Mackenzie King listened dutifully. By 1 p.m. he was lunching alone on shipboard on soup, roast beef, potatoes, cauliflower, ice cream, coffee. By mid-afternoon he was drinking tea, eating toast and jam on a special train bound for London. At 5:30 he was in London's Waterloo Station. Half an hour later he was on his way, by car, to the Chequers home of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee. By Monday mid-morning bustling Mr. King was in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel, laying out a schedule for the coming week...
After the last shipboard game, he told a story. Two Londoners, he said, had been arguing about a passing cleric. Said one: "I say he's the Archbishop of Canterbury. I can see his gaiters." Said the other: "He's not." To settle a bet, the passerby was hailed, asked his identity. Staring stonily over his high collar, the cleric replied : "It's none of your damned business who I am." So, the President grinned, they never knew-just like the suckers who do not call a poker hand...
Last week New York Timesman Meyer Berger told the story: "The amputation cases lay silent . . . in the red glow of the battle light in the ward. Shipboard sounds seemed remote and subdued as the chaplain bent over the fever-flushed youngster. The chaplain said: 'Do you want to pray with...
...fought almost solely over one supercharged issue: the Dominion Government's policy of partial military conscription. The Liberal candidate was the man charged with making that policy work: National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton. The voters had heard Tory orators toss flat charges of inadequate reinforcements and shipboard mutinies among draftees. General McNaughton had denounced such stories as "lies," and three times Prime Minister King had asked for McNaughton's election. The riding had returned Liberals to Parliament in 1935 and 1940. But this time it was different...
...orchestra arrived at the Channel to find a hurricane raging. They set out just the same. Fogbound in mid-channel, they missed their first Brussels date, spent the night giving an improvised shipboard concert for an audience of Tommies...