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...House of Commons swiftly returned a "humble address to the King" assuring George VI that it would do as he asked with all speed, but this applies only to the United Kingdom and its Crown colonies. George VI is in each Dominion separately King, and no act of the Mother of Parliaments can settle in London who is to be Regent as far as Ottawa, Canberra, Wellington, Cape Town or Dublin are concerned...
...Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void the Dominion of Canada's legislative measures for unemployment insurance, minimum wages, limitation of working hours and regulation of marketing: the "Canadian New Deal." These measures were originally introduced by Canada's unpopular Old Dealer Richard Bedford Bennett in his vain effort to escape disaster at the polls by hastily...
Victor of the 1935 election was Canada's present Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who has beat about a good many New Deal bushes, doing little and talking loudly about what he will do for the splendid people of the Dominion of Canada. According to himself, Prime Minister King has been willing to do every good thing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should decide was "constitutional" under the British North America Act, which is the Constitution of the Dominion. Last week it did not break his heart that in London nearly the whole New Deal...
...notable Canadian banking retirement last week was the resignation of old Sir John Aird from the presidency of Canadian Bank of Commerce. In his farewell address the dean of Dominion bankers announced: "Prosperity returned to the greater part of Canada...
STERLING LARRABEE Master of Hounds The Old Dominion Hounds Flint Hill...