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Personal

3rd July, 1937

The Rt. Honble W.L. Mackenzie King, M.P.
Laurier House,
Ottawa.

This is a line to greet you on your arrival home. You must
have had a wonderful time in Europe, and I shall look forward enormously
to hearing the story of your German visit. I am most grateful
to you for your messages, and especially for taking time to visit my
family at Peebles. You are the most thoughtful of friends. I cannot
tell you how much I valued your kindness in sending me news of my
family. I hear from everybody at home that you are looking very well,
so I hope you have had something of a holiday. As for your official
work, I feel that you have made a great contribution to sound Imperial
policy.

I have had a busy month, for I have had a desperate amount
of speaking to do. I spoke at the Canadian Medical Association in
Ottawa and at the Jubliee dinner of the Engineering Institute at Montreal.
The luncheon of the American-Canadian Conference at Kingston,
where Owen Young and I spoke, was very interesting, and I think may
be very fruitful. I was impressed by the gathering of Presbyterian
ministers at Montreal, to whom I made a long harangue. On Dominion
Day President Roosevelt broadcast a message to Canada, and I replied

In your absence I got Dandurand to approve what I said. I suppose