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...attic study at Ottawa's Laurier House, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King worked quietly and alone, clearing his desk. Soon he, too, would leave for London to join the other Commonwealth Ministers in their first meeting since World War II began...
...Edouard Herriot had not died last fall, as Gripsholm repatriates reported. From the underground last week came word that France's aging (72), ailing Elder Statesman was alive, at his home near Lyon...
...from shackled France: portly, jolly-jowled, kind-eyed Edouard Herriot is dead. He died in a prison of silence, watched by Vichy jailers. The Pétain government did not proclaim the death, did not mourn the massive liberal who was thrice Premier of France, 36 years Mayor of Lyon, always a tribune of the people...
...Parliament. When defeat came in 1940's summer, Edouard Herriot was President of the Chamber of Deputies. The men of Vichy had no use for the man of Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors...
Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King has no more articulate supporter for his foreign policies than George V. Ferguson, executive editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. In London with visiting Canadian newsmen, Editor Ferguson spoke bluntly via the BBC to Britons...