Press: Conservative on Comics

Canada's Conservative Richard Bedford Bennett is now the dignified, correct and unpopular leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Last week in Ottawa, this onetime premier rose before the Budget Committee in the House of Commons to denounce the duty-free entrance of U. S. publications and syndicate features into Canada, to flay some of the Dominion's most vulgar and popular U. S. comic-strip importations.

Turning to the hectic married life of George McManus' Jiggs & Maggie, Bachelor Bennett declared: "They represent marriage as a series of squabbles and deceits. I do not think...

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