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Premier Arthur Meighen of Canada, his party (Conservative) defeated at the polls (TIME, Sept. 27), quietly handed the resignation of his Cabinet to Governor General Baron Byng. The Baron was preparing to return to England last week and scarcely tarried longer than it took to call to the Premiership William Lyon Mackenzie King, leader of the victorious Liberals...
Significance. Premier Meighen's defeat was deemed so abysmal last week that many Conservatives hinted he should resign his leadership of the Conservative Party...
...stampeded, Mr. Meighen took no such precipitant action last week, but issued a brief statement promising that his Cabinet would resign at once...
...Meighen's Fall. So badly did the Conservatives fare last week that Premier Meighen was personally defeated for his parliamentary seat in the very constituency which first sent him to the Commons (1908), Portage La Prairie, Manitoba...
...notable coincidence his successful Liberal opponent was E. A. McPherson, once Mr. Meighen's partner...