CANADA: Canada First

With 137 seats out of a possible 245 and a clear majority over all political parties, the Conservative party ousted Canadian Liberals from their nine-year roost fortnight ago. Last week stern-jowled Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister-elect, was cock of the Canadian walk. Editors in Britain and the U. S. sat back to analyze the results.

Obvious was the deduction that Canada is wholeheartedly in favor of Bachelor Bennett's program of "Canada First" and high protective tariffs. A further fact which most U. S. editors privately admitted, few printed, is that the average Canadian...

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