"The General is crying," whispered sturdy citizens of Cobourg, Ontario, last week, as they stood in a packed throng at the local Court of Assizes. Within was General Sir Arthur William Currie, 52, once the peppery Commander-in-Chief of Canada's expeditionary force in France (1917-19), now the august Principal of famed McGill University, Montreal. Sir Arthur's eyes brimmed with tears of relief and triumph because he had just wiped a nasty smudge from his honor by winning a libel suit which has been reported in Canadian papers at Peaches-Browningesque length for many a week (TIME, March 26).
General Currie sued for...
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