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Peaches, Peonies. Britain's dirigible R-100 ended her 13-day visit to Canada last week (TIME, Aug. 11), sailed for home with a new tear in her fabric, one of her six motors disabled as the result of a side-flight over Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara, and with nine English and Canadian news correspondents aboard. Freight and express revenues estimated at $500,000 had to be rejected in accordance with Air Ministry orders. Only excess cargo was a bunch of peonies for King George from Viscount Willingdon, governor-general; and a box of Canadian peaches for the Prince...
Richard Bedford Bennett and his political friends marched into Rideau Hall, Ottawa's Government house, last week, shook hands with His Majesty's proxy, Governor-General Viscount Willingdon...
...Ottawa Journal summed up Canada's case against Prime Minister King in one sentence: "He had no policy to cure unemployment and he has not given Canada prosperity." Nationalist Canadians privately added a third accusation: Mackenzie King was pro-U. S. They felt that he was afraid to come out strongly against the Hawley-Smoot tariff. They said that he was too amenable to U. S. interests in the projected St. Lawrence waterways treaty. They knew that he had passed the U. S.-inspired law, objectionable to Canadians, forbidding the export of liquor...
Candidates King and Bennett remained at Ottawa to await the returns. Premier King's Cabinet ministers, however, went to their homes to vote, to impress their constituencies. Three considered themselves re-elected according to early vote totaliza-tions?Col. J. L. Ralston (National Defense), M. D. Euler (National Revenue), P. J. A. Cardin (Marine). Three of their colleagues quickly conceded defeat? Cyrus MacMillan (Fisheries), T. A. Crearer (Railways), W. F. Kaye (without portfolio...
...read a telegraphic order from Ottawa, last week sent to Andrew Dalziel, Canadian Collector of Customs at Detroit's river neighbor, Windsor, Ont. It meant that Canada had put into effect the law, long sought by U. S. Drys, forbidding export of liquor to the U. S., and requiring other liquor cargoes to post double bond, insurance against U. S. bootlegging. Immediately, Mr. Dalziel closed ten export docks along the Detroit river. Also immediately, 5,000 cases of liquor were ferried across to Detroit 'leggers, who anticipated a temporary shortage...