A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
THE Canadian election results seem to have astonished all the prophets except one, and that one never, so far as I know, expressed his full faith in public. But when he was in London a year ago Mr. Mackenzie King spoke -in private with complete confidence about the election. Mr. Bennett, as he put it picturesquely, " won't be left his boots to walk home in." Whether he has been or not only those more familiar than I am with the precise shades of Canadian idiom can decide. Even Mr. King, I imagine; never quite expected such a landslide as this, and he is entitled to regard it as a striking vote of con- fidence in himself personally, for he has done most of his own campaigning. One result of the Liberal victory, if I am not much mistaken, will be to bring Mr. Vincent Massey to London as High Commissioner. If he does come he will bring to the office qualities, both of scholar- ship and of statesmanship, rare in any High Commissioner of any Dominion, but abundantly displayed by Mr. Massey himself during his five years as Canadian Minister in Washington. He is incidentally a brother of Mr. Raymond Massey, the actor, and Sir George Parkin was his father-in-law.
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