Mr. Mackenzie King, who, unless every political indication is completely
illusive, will be once more Prime Minister of Canada within a few months, has just left for home after a short private visit to this country. He has undertaken no public engagement, and his presence, as he intended, has attracted little attention. But he has made .a great many personal contacts old and new, and by no means only among his Liberal friends. The most encouraging fact he mentioned was that the recent series of Liberal victories in by-elections for the Federal Parliament were won on the plain issue of the supremacy of Parliament. The Liberal speakers declared firmly against the assumption of excessive powers by the executive or the transfer of authority to extra-Parlia- mentary commissions and on that won an immediate response everywhere. Mr. King himself, I believe, took as his textbook of democratic practice Mr. J. A. Spender's valuable little volume These Times.
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