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Premier is riding for a fall, for he seems to be alienating his colleagues
and supporters.

I will try and meet Colonel Primrose when I am next in Edmonton,
and let you know my opinion of him. I hope to meet Mr. Justice
Clarke in Calgary. McNab in Saskatoon is quite a good fellow,
but, as you say, he has obvious limitations. I am sorry for you with
all these appointments to make, for they are one of the most trying
tasks for a Prime Minister. Arthur Balfour used to declare that the
mere thought of them made him sick.

I shall be at Calgary in two days, and then I begin my motor
car tour in the southern Prairies. I am afraid I shall find a good
deal of distress and I know I shall also find many stout hearts.

My news from Europe is the same as yours. Stella Reading
came to breakfast with me yesterday and gave me a curious account of
the Roosevelt household. She does not seem to think that the President's
re-election in November is quite much a certainty as we had
hoped. Like you and I, she believes that the key to the future is
in the relations between Britain and the United States, and that Canada
is the strategic point.

I am inclined to think it would be a good thing if the
League of Nations did not meet in September. It is not the moment for
any proper re-casting of it. I am wholly of your mind that if trouble
in Europe does come to a head, if possible we must keep the British
Empire out of it. The situation is wholly different from that of