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think the audience was much more bored than impressed. The next
night at the dinner Duplessis made a very courageous speech against
any suggestion of separatism. I think the affair has done a lot of
good, because it has brought the extremists into the open and exposed
the nakedness of the soil.

Altogether I feel that things are going much better here.
There is a real core of sanity among the French people, and the antics
of Mr. Hepburn in Ontario seem to have produced a wholesome
reaction. Angus Macdonald won a magnificent victory in Nova Scotia,
which I think we may take as a good omen. I long to have a talk
with you about the future, and the chances of revising the Constitution.

I always feel some regret in leaving Quebec, for the French
are curiously ebullient, and I think they like having us here. I
feel that I have got closer to them on this visit than ever before.

This afternoon we leave for the West. I am spending a
day at Kenora and a day at Winnipeg, and then we go to the Calgary
Stampede. After that I am making two short tours in Alberta in the
Drumheller mining district and in the Red Deer area. The crop prospects
in the Prairies, on the whole, are much better than last year,
but I am afraid Southern Saskatechewan is in as bad a state as ever.
I see no hope there except to let a good deal of the land go back to
ranch.

About July 20th I leave for the north with the Redferns,
while Susie and Alastair go down to stay with the Hambers at Victoria.