GREAT BRITAIN: Good Name & Fame

The Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand were made freemen of the City of London last week, proclaimed to be "men of good name and fame." Cried City Chamberlain Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollack, according to ancient ritual:

"They do not desire the freedom of the city whereby they will defraud the King or this city of any of its rights, customs and privileges. . . . They will pay their Scot, bear their lot, and so they all say!"

As to Canada's Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford...

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