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Show NAMES in the neivs . . . Premier Mackenzie King of Canada, Can-ada, on a vacation junket in Dixie visited President Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga., and John D. Rockefeller Rocke-feller Jr. at the magnificent colonial restoration job in Williamsburg, Va. The premier also sight-saw and chatter-boxed in Washington, where he is well liked, and even better known. Handsome Sir Anthony Eden, almost al-most forgotten, welcomed a "rough" gang of "ready" Newfoundlanders to England. They came to join up, but unlike the spruce Canadians, had no uniforms. They will serve as loggers, trawlers, gunners, and flyers. fly-ers. Eden made much of them, the tactful young Apollo now being dominions do-minions secretary, in the Chamberlain-Churchill cabinet. Tom Dewey's loyal New York office of-fice reported that the demon district prosecutor had been away from his office only 17 days out of the last 66Vfe. Anti-Dewbirds (as the breed is called) replied that, anyway, the bright young man got around much too much for his age. Meanwhile, Dewey was golfing in Colorado Springs. Since the Germans took over unhappy un-happy Denmark, Iceland has become be-come virtually independent. Bertil E. Kuniholm, a U. S. foreign service serv-ice officer, now becomes our consul-general consul-general in this new "nation" of 100,-000 100,-000 people. Stefan Joh Stefansson, Icelandic trade commissioner in New York, becomes consul-general, here in America, for his historic island is-land home, till lately a Danish dominion. do-minion. Iceland is about the size of Scotland; has the world's oldest parliament. par-liament. Meanwhile, Lawrence Steinhardt, U. S. ambassador to Russia, left the Soviets for America, on a two-month vacation. Critics wondered whether this was a "tactful" "tact-ful" way to call home our top-nuncio from that red Moscow. Capt. J. W. Reeges, U. S. N., was chosen first commander of our new naval aircraft-carrier. Wasp. The Wasp is nearly 15,000 tons, and carries car-ries about 1,000 men. This is the sixth ship, named Wasp, in the history his-tory of the American navy. Gov. Arthur James, Republican governor of Pennsylvania, told Indiana Indi-ana editors that idle men and idle money might drive a desperate President Roosevelt into that Second Sec-ond German war. Pa's favorite son stressed "peace and jobs"; Lenin, in 1917, stressed a platform of "peace and land." |