"Sweet Content"

ONE OF THE TEN BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR THE 39 STEPS with Robert Donat, the Monte Cristo hero . . . The MAN who put the MAN in RoMANce. . . .

From the famous novel by

JOHN BUCHAN

--Canada's New--

--Governor General--

With Canadian bookstores and cinema houses plugging his royalties furiously last week, canny John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, prolonged the money-making suspense of his arrival as Governor General by postponing it to Nov. 2. The given reason for this delay was to allow time for William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Liberal victor in Canada's general election (TIME, Oct. 21), to be sworn in as Premier before the distinguished author arrives to occupy viceregal Rideau Hall.

In the aftermath of their election Canadians scanned closely the first pronouncement of hearty, barrel-chested Mr. King. "Today's victory is a victory for Democracy," announced the forthcoming Premier. "The results make clear that the people of Canada are opposed to planning for scarcity by the restriction of production, of trade and of employment, and that they are not satisfied with the Ottawa trade agreements [TIME, Aug. 29, 1932] and welcome the prospect of their early revision. . . . The election is an unmistakable verdict in favor of the liberation of external and internal trade; of reciprocal agreements with the United States, and the restoration of trade with Japan upon a basis mutually beneficial in the case of each of these countries. . . . It is an overwhelming condemnation of the policies of economic nationalism. . . . The election is an overwhelming verdict against amalgamation of the railways of Canada, and the creation of other monopolies, whether related to the agencies of transportation and communication, production, industry or banking.

"In the new era which dawns today," concluded Mr. King, a politician of the grand old school, "we take up at once, as our supreme task, the endeavor to end poverty in the midst of plenty; starvation and unnecessary suffering in a land of abundance; discontent and distress in a country more blessed by Providence than any other on the face of the globe, and to gain for individual lives, and for the nation as a whole, that 'health and peace and sweet content' which is the rightful heritage of all."

In Washington William Duncan Herridge, the Canadian Minister to the U.S., resigned last week because he is the brother-in-law of Canada's defeated Premier, rich and pious Richard Bedford Bennett, long ailing in health. Said Mr. Bennett with entire sincerity and good humor, "I go out with a sense of relief, for reasons I need not define."

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