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Ever since 1897 the Province of Quebec has remained unflinchingly Liberal. Last year, however, the rest of Canada turned Conservative with a vengeance and swept Dominion Premier Richard Bedford Bennett into power on a Canada-First platform tinted ever so delicately with anti-U. S. sentiment. Many Quebeckers voted for Bennett. Conservative tacticians decided that last week's provincial election was the moment to invade the province in earnest...
...Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and turned in Conservative Richard Bedford Bennett (TIME, Aug. 11) increased the difficulties of Minister MacNider. Mr. King had been inclined toward a friendly co-operation with the U.S. Prime Minister Bennett's election had been won on an implicitly anti-U. S. platform. MacNider problems...
Obvious was the deduction that Canada is wholeheartedly in favor of Bachelor Bennett's program of "Canada First" and high protective tariffs. A further fact which most U. S. editors privately admitted, few printed, is that the average Canadian today is frankly anti-U. S. The Hawley-Smoot tariff, which Canadians interpreted as directly aimed against their chief exports, crystallized feelings. Both parties promised retaliatory measures. The Conservatives' measures were more severe. They got the votes...
...this request even the most friendly could not respond, for while the letter was on its way, the choleric, anti-U.S. weekly Britannia (TIME, Nov. 5) had failed under the extravagant editorship of Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau and was about to lose its identity in a merger with England's popular Eve, according to statements issued by wealthy, wiry William Harrison, owner of both publications and some 25 other periodicals...
Finally, what was once the impish and diverting anti-U. S.-ism of M. Balieff has soured into an apparent U. S.-phobia. Two years ago in Paris, the attack could be seen coming on. Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris. Last week, in Manhattan, they lurked in his innuendo, deadened the jollity that once beamed from his round Cheshire-cat-face...