CANADA: Maiden Flight

For the first time in his cautious, well-ordered life Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King flew in an airplane last week. An American-made bomber flipped him across the North Atlantic to Britain. The take-off showered dust on angry critics of Canada's fuddy-duddy war policies, particularly on the Government's unwillingness to conscript men for overseas service. His war talks in Britain were expected to save some of the face lost when Canada was not represented at last fortnight's Roosevelt-Churchill meeting at sea.

Six hours before the flight ended an uncoordinated censorship revealed the bomber was in the air. But no Nazi planes...

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