One day last week an army airplane piloted by Captain Ira C. Eaker carried Hanford MacNider, Iowa banker, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War, from Washington to Ottawa, where he presented his credentials as U. S. Minister to tall, slender, white-whiskered Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron of Ration, Governor-General of Canada. Before he left Washington, Minister MacNider had been thoroughly coached by President Hoover on the major problems at issue between the U. S. and Canada.
The Canadian election which turned out Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and turned in...
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