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Last week, 2,000 unemployed War veterans, laborers and women swarmed into the Government Offices and broke a glass-framed portrait- over the head of Premier Sir Richard Anderson Squires.
In St. Johns two days later an unemployed man walked up to Sir Richard Squires, seized the Premier's pipe, stuck it in his own mouth and walked off smoking, unmolested. Pipeless Sir Richard too walked off unmolested (by a crowd of the unemployed who cheered the pipe-stealer...
The minstrels sing of an English King of many long years ago, who dearly loved to chase the stag across the royal wood, but had few other ways of amusing himself. In those days country squires and lesser gentry went foxhunting only when the woods were not full of staghunting...
Desperately resolved to raise money and avert default, the Dominion of Newfoundland recently offered to sell Labrador to Canada (TIME, Dec. 28), later hinted that rich U. S. citizens might be invited to lease Labrador-than which, from a British standpoint, nothing could be more deplorable. In St. John'...
Last week came the first definite official statement on the Labrador question. Sir William Ford Coaker, minister without portfolio in the Squires Cabinet, admitted that the Territory of Labrador had been offered to the Dominion of Canada for $100,000,000 net, or $833 a square mile.