The Archive · 1933

Tit for Tat

The Senate, under the vigorous leadership of Hon. Arthur Meighen, Iwas more in the limelight than usual; and there were two clashes between the Senate and the Touse jof Commons. 'The Commons rejected the Senate's Dill legalizing "hospital sweepstakes, while in, return the Senate threw out the Commons' bill to retire judges at the lage of seventy-five, The session came to a close with passing of the most contentious of legislation on the agenda.

was. the Redistribution Bill, which I have already mentioned. Hot clashes between the party fleaders featured the debate and Mr. King suggested in mo uncertain terms that an attempt was being made to legislate him out of a seat jat the next election. To this one of their taxation-censorship: move.

The early apposition now seems. ito have been fully justified. For the cheap, sensational magazines have evaded the tax by sending their plates across: the tine " am Potting out. "Sovcalled. "Canadian editions; while the highest. type of American publication has suffered a fevere restriction. in -cireulation. For example, Atlantic Monthly has fast $0 per cent. of its Canadian That Soviet Foreign Commissary Iatvinov is favorite ean= didate for this year's Nobel Peace Prize is reported in all. seriousness by the Soviet press... It is argued that the reward is due to Litvinov for his successful activity in London which brought about the conclusion Jof quite a large number of non-

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