Because the Dominion is at warshe proudly emphasized her Statehood by separately declaring war on Germanythe traditional gold-braided jackets and fluttery plumed hats of Canadian officials on State occasions were omitted last week when Parliament convened in Ottawa. In sombre morning clothes the Governor General entered the oak-paneled, scarlet-trimmed Senate: pippin-cheeked Scottish Novelist Baron Tweedsmuir, gravely embodying (according to law) "the Person of the King in Canada."
Jittery and wrathful appeared the white-thatched leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Conservative Robert J. Manion, M.D., whose Irish tongue is as sharp as his...
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