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fi-y- r y jpp fx f r page srx famous men artiftle no 2k tby iiiikii yempllni canadian people dont know much about titles and titled persons the government 6f canada rtoes not nt- lim canadians to accept titles there ih mrmii argument about whether thin is unlit or wrong but ltt theory is flint thu la a thoroughly domoeinlli 1 ouiltln wtuti i iuhh dlsttmtlonu do not tii but opportunities lire equal hi fmt leaving fur i vimii tofbltnln it had sttiiikt possible ttuit i might niei l on oi two titled persons but 1 never gn it much thought the ln it n lion hud oome from mi mill i ntnt robertson head of tin fit i i ihii touiuil nnd ns 1 nftorwnids dlmov- ercd he wnt the ut hon sir mnl- rolm koherlson n member of the rnhlnct it himmwl likely thitt 1 might meet him j there were friends who nuked me suppose you should niwl n puke uoutd ou know how to nddress him properly i hnd to ndmlt thnl i would not i know in n iigue sort of wn thnt there won ranks of knighthood hut whother n lord urh nny hlghei thnn n viscount i rcnll hnd no idea nnd i dont know mttt h more nhout it yet bui i met mnn titled imon from sin to vlst mints and never hud any difficult nhout forms of nddress moreover i found them very humnn iih n rule the o ceptlon being n cnnnmnn wnh a h- rent title whhh probnhlvhnd nut rhnnged him mueh nt thnt i learned too thnt mnny of the moat import nnl men hnve no titles for instnnce then in the prime min ister winston churchill nnd n num ber of members of the inner war cnblnet who nre not even sin there were other persons with military rnnk for instance nil the world knows the nnme of gonernl charles de gaulle i met him sev eral times i tntked with the hends of the vm iouh services with rt hon a v alcxnnder klrst lord of the admiralty for instnnce nnd air mnr- shnll r h peck nnd rearadmiral sir henry hnrwood one of the nnvnl heroes of the inst wnr then ngnln i talked one nfternoon with viscount bennett former prime minister of cnnndn now enjoying life ns n momber of the house of lord in england nnd one morning nt nn informal brenkfnat in n prlvnte din ing room of the savoy n group of cnnndinn editors tint nt n table with viscount greenwood who wns sir hnmar greenwood nnd before thnt wns n student nt the university of toronto nt the same time ns two of my ravelling compnnlons bishop r 7 renlson nnd b k snndwoll it could truly be satrt thnt the four of us hnd one thing in common we nnd nil gone to the same unlversltv i hnve gone through my little hi nek notebook which serves ns n diary while i wns nwny nnd hnve picked out the mimes of the widely- known people whom i met it is n long list nnd i wont burden you with it i hnve forgottsn for u hnt some of these people were fnmous but you may bo interested to hear- it wns mentioned to mr tlfacknn he arranged it nt oncornnd went further thnn wo hnd nskod inking- us into the house of commons while the pi line minister wns sneaking ns well ns having us meet him in his of- flie our tltlwl llnuts ntenrlnu biniken iiiik not title hut two itf out nthit hosts fiom tint mln- isfrv of informntlon were sirs sir mali ol in itntit hon is abut n kt hon orable and ih head of the rtiltlsh con in ii whhh denw with publblty lie was jiihi nhout as milking iq hjs look n ftieitdnn ri a kqn ihnugh his toloilng wa dink not red hi was n ot tnll mnn nnd om gnlneil the imesslnn thnt he hnd seen ft lot of lire t 1 met him mnl fftrmnllv but sir hntrv rrltnln used to come nround ftften to the snn and talk to the vanndtnnh foi hoius he wits the founder of the fmptre pretet union nnd evident must hnve been n pub lisher but he wns interested in nil soits of other things ns welli for ln- ntnnco he wns or hnd been n mem- hoi of pntllnment nnd he wns n grent flower grower hnvlng originated n few new vnrletles he nlwnys hnd n flower in his button hole sir hurry hnd been to cnnndn sev ern times nnd liked the count i y erj much henlsn liked to tnlkto rinnrhnnu nnl ti unijll rtrnp p at i e i o ii n leriiian cfluntrattwiks failed to otit rwiuuhann fmnv new i y- won pftthlons nn hill 70 nbout some of them rt hon brendan rrackrn 7 hnve already written nbout my jjtmetlng wuh prhne minister wln- irton churchill i heard him speak jn the house of commons and then met him in his own office in the par liament buildings afterwardsan ex perience not likely to be forgotten- and he proved to be exactly as i- bad expected forcefuj dynami full of good humor that dayanrt smoking a lg cigar on other days i met several of the- cabinet ministers individually br colectwelyh andon october 1st ant at a long table in clarldges hptel in the west end of london with nbout half the cabinet the ministers with whom our party bad the closest contact were the two whose business it was to tftoal with publicity hon brendan bracken minister of public information and rt hon sir malcolm robertson president of the british council frankly i may make some mls- tnkesln titles or otherwise after a lapse of nine months it not easy to recall all the details and i have no copytortnbtltlsh who-s-who- besldes thnt several men then in the innermost circles are out now rt hon brendan bracken is a young man younger thnn myself i should guess he is said to be a rich mnn partly through his own efforts vie is striking in appearnnce not at nil handsome but certainly different his chief characteristic being n shock of editors visited him in his offices in whitehall not fnr nw from the of red lmir whuh defies combing hohousen of parliament and just across was tii the publishing huslriess ami tins been secretary to churchill and w a personal friend of the prime min ister the group of cnnndinn editors felt much indebted to brendan bnu ken it wns n t just bemuse lie pine us n dinner one dn nt which we met mnn of the mtnktters though that jvnj n memorable dn but npnri from that his hot pi till it seemed un- bounded if we wnnted anything or wishedfbgo nnywhere we only hnd to ask for it somehow our hosts bad not arranged a- chance to meet winston churchill probably neer thinking liow much we would ap- nrectnte the opportunity but whim the hotel about ten nt night nnd stny for several hours in 10- 1 he wns host to n pnrty of cnnndinn editors who went to kurope for n trip nnd m fnther wns in the pnrty sir hnrrys home in acton englnnd nnd the inte ii p moore of acton ontario wns in thnt group the two been me friends nnd there wns some i n terchnnge of correnpondence t be- tween the two actons letter sit hnm visited mr moore in arton ontnrlo nnd he wanted to he remem bered to friends there i will tell only one of sir hnrrys stories it seems he originated n new t olor in flowers nn ornngi mrnntlon if i remember correctly nnd wns granted permission to cnll it after queen kuznheth it wns shown first at one of the hlg flowor shows where the king nnd queen were to mnke nn np- penrnnco nnd sir harry was there to present n bunch of the now flow ers to her majesty afterwards they stood nround nnd tnlked nnd be told the queen a few jokes and there wns much laughing later one of the roynl escorts came to sir harry and said i wns so glad to ttee you laugh ing nnd joking with her majesty yes said sir harry she seemed lo enjo it and no wonder re plied the other usunlly when people see their majesties coming they get faces on them like coffln- llds in case you nre wondrlng i did not see the king and queen while i wns in london they were up at their scotch home but i saw buck ingham palace several times the first member of the house of lor whom we m afte arrival in london was not nt all the type j had pictured and for reasons which ap peared later he was lord sn who had been chosen or hnd volunteered to guide the canadians through the houses of parliament he was as sisted by sir patrick ham an m p for burlington representing the house of commons thnt was a most interesting trip as might be suppos ed and they took us to all the little odd corners such as the cellars where guy fawkes hid when he irled to blow up the parliament of his day and the cloisters where cromwell stabled his horses to show his con tempt parts of the houses of par liament are quite old while other parts were built during the reign of queen victoria now the house of commons chamber will have to be rebullt once again for it turned into rubble when several big bombs hit tt at once lord snell and sir patrick hamon proved to be the most entertaining guides with a steady flow of humor and much goodnatured bantering of each other and of the house of lords later we learned that lord snell was a labor peer getting bis title durin the time of ramsay mac nv ii ii flowoon ormadlan pre staff writer cnnndinn soldiers proved time nnd again l eais ngo in the flint droat war hint i hey could ninti h tjielr re- mtiiknhle nttm king powei with great ourngi rfnd lesoltitlon w hen for c on the defeiihlw it wns so nt hill 70 1ntlnw lug the tmmdlnnh nut chh- ful nttm k on tin- noi hern key to lmir on aug 1 1117 they won- sub- jetted foi a wiek to ilcimnn cnun- t r nttm kit unpictedentcd in delei- mlnntlon and ferm ity hill 7rt wns ltnl to the enemys hold on i ens but oiimnn attempts to otisl tie domin ion troops from their newly won posi tions wen shntlered fmmedintelv nnltu of hill 70 wan hugo wood nnd st lnurent lay south of the heights on atiguht ih the germans laun hed simultaneous drives nt these points using fnnsh tr in pirn e of the 4th prussian guards hndl ut up in the nttmk on hill 70 the 220th division stormed hugo wood ndvnmlng behind n hnirage of llutd fire and gns the cnnndlans wire not cnught nnpplng nnd the nt- tn kers were fohcd to fall h k under withering artillery fire at st ijui- rent the enemy mannged to enter n portion of the cnnndinn lines hut wns quickly driven out by n counter nttnek two days later stofm troops ad vanced on hill 70 following n heavy bombardment of cnnndinn tren hes with high explosives nnd gns shells most of the shelling wns directed at tle defending gunners who fighting in gns masks gave more than thoy received this nttnek wns alio ben ten off sacrificed men other unsuccessful atfnc ks on vnr- lous sections of the llm held hy the cnnadlnns were mndc in official re ports the fighting wns described ns of nf desperate clinrncter nnd unsur passed in fury the gcrmnns flung mnxses of men into the attacks but their sncrifl wns in vnln under original plans the drive on hill 70 was to be followed by nn at tack on snllaumines hill south of lens this operation wns abandoned however when sir douglas hnlg cal led upon the cnnadlnns to move into the ypres sector where at pnsschen- dnele they achieved one of the not able successes of the wnr congratulatory messages poured into canadian headquarters after the triumph at hill 70 i desire to congratulate you per sonally on the complete nnd import ant success with which your com- mnnd of the canadian corps has been inaugurated wrote sir douglas to sir arthur currle the canadian eommnndjt the two divisions you employed on the isth instant defeat ed the four germans divisions whose tosses nre reliably estimated at more than double those suffered by the canadian troops the skill bravery and determination shown in this at- tnck in maintai the positions won against repeated counterattacks were in all respects admirable exstage star making shells u woman war worker in britain was wounded efe- cspinjr f root france aid and the labor government he had been a manufacturer and at one time a workman viseaont craabame the first cabinet minister i met wms the viscount cranborne secre tary of the dominions our group london cp when a big bus heavy with workmen grinds to a stop each dawn in a london suburb a petite auburnhatred woman in dun garees carrying a lunch pall climbs aboard and squeezes among the jok ing laborers she is nora white former american stage star now a munition worker in a london factory earning about 25 cents an hour wife of a british army doctor she was one of the last women to lesve france after the germans came she was iuulldedjui sh elfl ed along t he co gested roads to brittrfny i didnt know about it until i took off my clothes and found a huge hole in my leg she recalled i sat on the beach and took the bullet out with a pair of steel knitting needles the road fry no 10 dow ningstreci our enrs diove in through an arch guarded by se ernl soldiers nnd w e stepped out amid piles of sundbng guurdlng entrances to doorwnb i mipjmise the building nre old at li ntt ns we t limbed svnitwn and wnlktd uiomk ilh i hid tut ulen thiit ever thing was am tent as i hnd expected it would u arrilng nt our dest mat ion there were introdui ions nnd wt pamd into the ministers own room which wns quite inrgt he sat nt his desk nt one end of the loom fornjed a sort of nudlence tell uh something of what canadas soldiers and other armed forces were doing the army he said was being kcptjn england because thnt upi still where is was most needed after dunkirk the canadians were the onl forces in all england w ho had equipment the air training plan lie tenutti wonderful j lord cranborne offered to answer qutstions and did but there wnsone lu fnther ewided asked about i kudok hes- h wn rather noncom mittal not celling un thing whuh htun t nlread been published it is ald that viscount cranborne nnd ont tn ade british states- facing men an might be a possible candi e and in ji hor work ofc oov wedo xr- honey dcui coffcc shops mm iii nov u in official j sate for prime mlnlatcr but for the welcome to britain and went on to hl health la not good giteawi