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

I will try and meet Colonel Primrose when I am next in Ed-
monton, and let you know my opinion of him. I hope to meet Mr. Justice
ice Clarke in Calgary. McNab in Saskatoon is quite a good fellow,
but, as you say,, he has obvious limitaitons. 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 Presi-
dent's re-election in November is quite such 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 Can-
ada 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 trou-
ble in Europe does come to a head, if possible we must keep the Brit-
ish Empire out of it. The situation is wholly different from that of