The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-31
By t &sON
NEA 81 Correspondent

ual news was at stake in the
Quebec conference of Prime
Minister Churchill, President
Roosevelt, eft. al. For this is the
country of miracles and near
miracles st. Anne De Beaupre;
DR.. Locke; tbS man the Mounties
always get; RCook. who didn't
get to the Nth Pole: the UNI
believable rescue of all the fly
r who have managed TO get
lost in the great northwoods;
the weather that comes out of
the Medicine Hat; the radium
mines; the Yukon gold rush; the
magnetic pole; the Dhoukobars
and the Dionne quintuplets. II
was automatic that the news
coming out of the Quebec con-
ference would have to be Meter
than all of the old Canadian
standbys combined.
Early stages Of the conference
were not without their bizarre
moments which gave promise
that Quebec would not let the
Dominion down.
Strangest character TO appear
on the scene was unquestion-
ably Brendan Bracken. the Brit
ish Minister of InformatioR who
came over with Anthony Eden.
He turned out to be a tall, hus-
ky, pink-faced man in his for
ties, possessed of a mop of man
liza hemp hair that was like
nHhing in the world save Harpo
MARKS wig. He wore colorless
y site trimmed glasses and also
Il usual clothes and a edark
kite with a loose four-in-
b knot that exposed the lar
gTt gold-headed collar button
eve mined. He punctuated his
remarks with a "yas' and "yaw'
whenever he was huntingdon a
word or collecting his thoughts,
though the phrases seen sd TO
roll out endleSsly and eff less-
IL in what appeared to bS stu
died mannerism of tryin( o be
constantly smart.
His act at his first press con-
ference held in the old city hall
"a hours after his arrival, was
pretty much of a flop. He open
ed with a few on-the-record
trfte remarks which he later
admitted were mellow platl-
res such as: News of the
@ebec conference is Aarcer
than water in the Sahara Des-
ert." Later he answered ques-
tons off the record because, as
he said, his Lord and Master
was a censor. and ne always car
ried one ~ him. When the
correspondents insisted on PIN
ming him dNKn he annoyingly
santed to rect every phase
and changeT comma here and
there because too many purple
passages spoil any article" The
Prime Minister was living very
much his usual life at the Cits,
del because he was not "one OF
those perpetual busy-bodieS
called an eanN riser
The warl said, was goine
very well, N1ted, yaW. After il
was over the correspondents
agreed they'd take Elmer Davis
any day.
Princess Alice, wife 81 the
Earl of Athlone, Governor Cen
eral Of Canada, revealed herself
as just another candid cSmers
hound. When the press photo.
graphers were shooting MIXTURES
of the President, the prirI min
isters, generals, admiram and
marshals on the terrace at the
Citadel. Her EXcellency stepped
out of the picture, got down on
knee with the photograph
ers and shot a few exposures
herself with a mini-camera she
pulled out of her handbag. That
session of picture taking lasted
nearly an hour. The President
took it, but Mr.. Churchill be.
came impatient al all the posing
"Oh. don't let this bother you
the Presidentafinally told him
When Hull gets here we'll have
all this TO 60 through again
During the picture taking
Anthony Eden appeared on the
terrace, having just arrived by
Clipper from England. Church.
i'll stood up at the sight g him
Where the devil did he come
FROM the Prime Minister
wanted TO know. Star perform.
er at the picture taking cere.
monies was Fala, the President
photogenic scotch terrier. He
was all over the terrace, first
trying to find a lamppost. Their
to be photographed with the
MountleS and looking into cam
eras.
One Of the cameramen got a
good look at the dog and thereby
discovered evidence of more Of
fetal confusion. The Presieni
has always insisted that the
dogs name should be spelled
W4h one "L'-Fala. But the
photographer found that the taG
the dogs collar carried the
|cription "Falla."
The night Of Eden's arrival
there was a big state dinner al
the Citadel for the so most i'm
portant people of the confer
ence. The list of pilests waSp'i