Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Listen, London

Britain, like a mother hen clucking at her dearest chick, kept calling Canada. South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts was already in London, for a conference of Empire Prime Ministers on defense and trade. So were representatives of Australia and New Zealand. The New York Times reported, from London, that Prime Minister Mackenzie King would not arrive "until next week." Others predicted that he would soon "fly to London."

In Ottawa, an External Affairs Department spokesman stood it as long as he could. Then, in language as diplomatic as his striped pants, he flatly said that such press reports were "misleading." In...

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