Canada: Quiet Visitor

Britain's press was finding Canada's Prime Minister poor copy. The informal "fact finding" which had taken William Lyon Mackenzie King to London and kept him there already more than three weeks went on behind closed doors. He let reporters, including one from the Maple Leaf (Canadian service paper) interview him. But they learned nothing.

He called on Old Friend Winston Churchill in his new house near Albert Hall, stayed to chat for hours. He attended an informal and boisterous dinner that Prime Minister Attlee gave in a private room in the House of Commons. He sniffled through a cold. He presented himself...

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