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Minister William Lyon McKenzie King and Supreme Court

David Shugar: That involved extending the War Measures Act and appointing a royal commission headed by two Supreme Court judges to weigh Mr, according to Globe and Mail. Gouzenko sensational revelations. His dramatic defection, and the duplicity of the USSR, our wartime ally, was not made public for five months while Prime Minister William Lyon McKenzie King discussed the situation with the Americans and the British and formed a plan of action. The arrests began in the early hours of Feb. 15, 1946, when David Shugar and 10 others were picked up, detained at Rockcliffe air force barracks in Ottawa and held incommunicado, their tiny rooms lit night and day with a 100-watt bulb. Shugar did not know why he was there, since it was only after the arrests that the prime minister made public Mr. Dr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.