CANADA: Government Intoxication

An unexciting Canadian with many of Herbert Hoover's virtues is Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who, knowing that a fate like the U. S. ex-President's probably awaits him at Canada's next general election this year, has excitedly improvised a species of New Deal (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week in the Province of New Brunswick came a preliminary test. If the Conservative Premier's New Deal was catching on with Canada's masses, Mr. Bennett could hope that when New Brunswick elected its provincial legislature Conservative New Brunswick Premier Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley would...

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