Vacation in the South

Just before 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, Mackenzie King walked down a third-floor corridor in Ottawa's Parliament Building, and turned into the comfortable lounge of the Press Gallery. For once there was no one at the card table; only a few reporters were in the room. But the P.M., eyes a-twinkle at his little surprise, waited while the rest were rounded up. Then he gave out his news.

"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "I'm going off for a little vacation. I am going away for three weeks--if I can make it, four weeks, and I think I will." He was going to the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach, Va. Later, he might visit other southern cities. On the way home he probably would drop in on President Truman in Washington.

The P.M., wan and tired after his recent illness, nevertheless made plain that he is not ready to be counted out of politics. "A real change," he said, "will get me in shape for some little time to come--I hope."

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