When TIME was two years old all of National Affairs was written by one man (who also turned out Science and Books). In the entire U.S. we had not one correspondent to send us the news firsthand--and it wasn't until eleven years later that we had our own Washington News Bureau.

TIME's Canada at War department, on the other hand, is only 19 months old this week--but already we have assigned a staff of four fulltime writers and researchers to the new department--lined up 13 of Canada's ablest young newsmen to serve as TIME correspondents--opened our own editorial office in Ottawa.

There are two reasons why TIME is trying to bring its readers a more thoughtful understanding of Canada's problems and accomplishments. First is the growing importance of TIME itself in Canada, where our circulation has jumped 297% in the past five years (TIME today is bought each week by more than 70,000 of Canada's top people). And the second reason is the growing 'importance of Dominion news to readers on this side of the border. For Canada is not America's oldest good neighbor--she also the United States' best customer, more American dollars are invested there than in any other country outside the U.S.; and Canada is trying out many experiments in postwar legislation (like the baby bonuses) which may some day become law in the U.S.

Every week Canada at War Editor Sanford Lee Cooper and Richard Draper get the full reports of the Canadian Press (Canada's Associated Press, a service received by no other magazine in America)--and every week this team follows the reporting in 47 Canadian newspapers and magazines. But even more important to TIME's coverage of Dominion news is our own staff of Canadian correspondents.

Chief of these is Larry Laybourne, one of the most knowing newsmen in the Dominion. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Ohio State University and a veteran of ten years on the St. Louis

Post Dispatch, Laybourne today is the fulltime head of our office in the Dominion capital. But he knows every province in Canada firsthand--is as likely to be found somewhere in the Maritimes or way out on Vancouver Island.

Like the 83 local newspapermen who help cover the U.S. for us, TIME's correspondents in Canada are all high-ranking working journalists in their own home towns, and many are top editors on leading newspapers. In Montreal, for instance, TIME's man is Glenn Gilbert, managing editor of the Standard. Henri Poulin also guides us in handling puzzling French Canadian affairs in Quebec Province. TIME's man in Winnipeg is Nathan Zimmerman of the Tribune. Bill Stovel represents us in Regina, where his special job these past months has been to keep you posted on the socialist CCFers.

Stovel is a good example of our Canadian correspondents and how they work: as telegraph editor of the Leader-Post he handles hundreds of stories each day, also looks for TIME news leads in a score of Saskatchewan papers. But Stovel knows his special job for TIME is to supply us with stories we could not get in any other way, so most afternoons find him digging out the news on the spot as he talks with farmers and workers and businessmen all over his vast territory.

The TIME News Bureau and TIME's editors in New York keep in close touch with Stovel and our other correspondents in Canada (Cooper has made eight trips to Canada, Draper three in the past year alone).

And it works the other way, too. For the past month, for example, Bureau Chief Laybourne has been in New York, taking a turn as editor and writing into TIME his extensive personal understanding of the Dominion and its newsmakers.

Cordially,

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