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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin continued last week his tour of Canada (TIME, Aug. 1, 8), he took occasion at each stop for banqueting and festive entertainment to play the matter-of-fact role of "salesman" or "interpreter" of the British Empire...
Events of Tour. Prime Minister Baldwin was careful to repeat the general substance of his appeal to Canadians to buy Empire goods whenever he spoke in public last week; but there were other and less stereotyped features of his tour and the simultaneous jaunt* of Edward of Wales and his brother Prince George...
...Most notable of the tour ceremonies was the dedication of the International Peace Bridge at Buffalo. A bugle sounded, and from the Canadian and U. S. ends of the Peace Bridge dignitaries advanced to the centre. From Canada came Prime Minister Baldwin, the Royal Princes and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of the Dominion. Prom the U. S. came Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg and Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York State...
Itinerary. When Prime Minister Baldwin spoke of his "strenuous tour," he meant that he would travel throughout Canada in 18 days making 15 major stops. From Quebec his route and that of Their Royal Highnesses lay through Montreal (one day), the Canadian Capital at Ottawa (three days), then a cruise by private yacht up the St. Lawrence, by special train to Toronto (two days), and to Calgary, where Their Royal Highnesses would say goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin and proceed to the nearby ranch of Edward of Wales...
Later, as Host Bottomley's spirits kindled, he announced other projects: 1) a lecture tour during which he would wear only prison garb and would denounce British prison methods "from every platform in the land"; 2) the founding of a newspaper, "for which my backers have ready £100,000, gentlemen." 3) publication (which subsequently took place last week in the London Dispatch) of an entire front-page story of his wrongs, plus an entire back page of pictures showing him plump before he went to jail and cadaverous today...