Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators by Roy MacLaren

Author:Roy MacLaren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MQUP
Published: 2019-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

*That same evening, Massey gave an after-theatre reception for the visiting prime minister. King shared a taxi to Massey’s residence with a young woman who he learned the next day was “a famous young movie star,” Ingrid Bergman.

*The degree to which the Duke of Windsor and his brother the Duke of Kent were disposed to Hitler’s regime remains unclear, the Royal Archives having been exempted from the British Freedom of Information Act of 2000. More specifically, information about the abdication crisis and about the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to Hitler in 1937 remains closed. However, stills from a home cinema film of the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret as young children and their mother, the future Queen Elizabeth, in a garden at Balmoral giving the stiff-armed Nazi salute following the example of their uncle, the future Edward VIII, have somehow become public (Guardian, 18 July, and Daily Telegraph, 19 July 2015).

*Pierre Berton, in The Great Depression, related that “In 1937 Euler was guest of honour on German Day in Kitchener. Euler agreed with other speakers who deprecated stories and articles critical of Germany and which instead of healing sores [tend] to keep up hatreds. The Minister declared that he sometimes thought that the publication of such propaganda should be made a criminal offence for newspapers” (464).

*The dislike was reciprocal. Baldwin once described Lloyd George as having “no bowels, no principles, no heart and no friends.”

*King did not see Cousandier again until Paris in August 1946, when he was immensely gratified that she had translated into Italian Emil Ludwig’s recently published sycophantic Mackenzie King: A Portrait Sketch. Near destitute at the end of the war, she pleaded with him to arrange for her a much-coveted clerical appointment as a local employee at the proposed Canadian Legation in Rome. For whatever reason, the coveted job did not materialize. King was, however, still writing to her, and to Julia Grant in Washington, from his deathbed in Ottawa in 1950.

*The Canadian public certainly had no idea of what the visit was about. Typically in an Ottawa press conference King was obfuscation itself. “He told the assembled reporters he was off to Washington to see FDR. ‘What is the purpose of your visit?’ a Quebec scribe asked. ‘To discuss the situation,’ King replied. ‘What situation?’ the reporter inquired. ‘Matters of mutual interest’ King answered. And that was the extent of it” (Levin, King, 267).

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