For the first time in four full weeks, William Lyon Mackenzie King stepped out of his office in Ottawa's Parliament Building, padded across the corridor with a portfolio under his arm, pushed aside the green. curtains and stepped into the House of Commons. There was a pattering of applause and some members walked to his desk to shake his hand. The 72-year-old Prime Minister had looked wan and tired when he went away. Now he was ruddy, rested and in high spirits. A month of soaking up southern sunshine had done him good.
On his way home from Virginia, he...
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