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successor to Walsh in his post as Lieutenent-Governor.
Mr. Justice Clarke, of Calgary, is another possibility.
There is no doubt in my mind about Clarke's qualifications,
should he be prepare to leave the Bench to accept the
other post. I am a little in doubt about the wisdom of
continuing Munroe in Saskatchewan, though an obvious
successor is not to be found. From the talks I have had
with Saskatchewan members and others, I can see that the
most likely successor is "Archie" McNab. He has many
qualifications which would make his appointment popular
with the people of the Province. He has, however, obvious
limitations.

The term of the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova
Scotia is also up and a successor is about to be appointed
for that Province. I wish we had all our appointments settled.
With vacancies on the Bench and the Board of Directors of
the Railways, the Bank of Canada and the Radio Commission
still to be constituted, and other vacancies, we have in all
some forty important appointments to make. Such preliminary
surveys as we have had, make apparent that it is going to be
extremely difficult to secure the class of man which each
particular position should have.

From now until I leave on the 12th, the Cabinet
will be meeting the greater part of each week. My summer
is at an end and I am practically bidding farewell to
Kingsmere. You may be interested in knowing that as a
part of my summer reading, I have been going pretty carefully
through Lloyd George's "War Memoirs". I have read some of
their pages before and glanced at others. This summer I have
been reading many parts with care. I do not like to say so,
but I have felt that I owed it to the country and to my work
to anticipate as largely as possible, the matters to be given
consideration prior to or in the event of war. What ever
else is lacking in Lloyd George's narrative, certain it is,
there is no omission vdth respect to the problems of any significrnce,
or how they are best to be met by "vigour and vision".