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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...
...breathless question was asked and left unanswered last week in sweltering official Ottawa: "Can the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons arrest a Senator of the Dominion and lock him up in the Tower of Parliament?"* Reason such an arrest seemed likely was that Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald of Montreal had refused to appear before a Committee of the House and was considered in contempt of Parliament...
...casual reference to a time when he had helped out the Beauharnois company by signing two $500,000 checks in a single day. More startling to Canadians was news that Senator McDougald and William Lyon Mackenzie King had gone to Bermuda, not together but simultaneously, while Mr. King was Dominion Prime Minister. Mr. King arose in the House of Commons last week to explain. He had not traveled with Senator McDougald, he said. He had gone to Bermuda "to get a reciprocal tariff on fruit and vegetables." Senator McDougald had gone for his health and left Bermuda first. When...
...harbor of Montreal there was great bustle last week, and a flow of more real French than usual. Eight out of ten natives of Quebec Province and of Montreal speak a provincial French patois, su perficially proud that their French forefathers established the white race's dominion over Canada. But last week, straight from modern France, the null sloop Villa d'Ys slipped into Montreal under the tricolor, bringing its complement of 103 true-speaking French. Purpose: to help the patois-speakers to celebrate le quatorze Juillet, the French Day of Independence. Purpose behind the purpose: to cultivate...
...made a great oration in Parliament [cheers] which had been echoed loudly by other orations from His Majesty's Opposition [cheers]. More notably, His Majesty's Britannic Government had spread the Hoover generosity around the globe by offering to His Majesty's Indian and the Dominion Governments the same concessions which His Majesty's Britannic Government received [cheers]. Lazy, bankrupt Australia snatched the crumb. Proud, His Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa said: "We have informed His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom that South Africa will not take advantage...