GREAT BRITAIN: Canada's Cards

Monday, Aug. 15, 1932

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¶ As the delegates left Ottawa for the official opening of the Welland Ship Canal between Lakes Erie & Ontario police heard of a plot to assassinate James Henry Thomas, British Secretary of State for Dominions. Orders went out for the arrest of "a Sinn Feiner of the most radical type —a slight, ruddy-faced Irishman with a broad, noticeable nose"—a description which, except for the nationality, might also be applied to Mr. Thomas. In Toronto was apprehended one Dan Malone, who said it was a "frame-up."

^{* A party the delegates did not attend was the dedication,
week before the conference opened, of a 3,000-acre International Peace
Garden in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota and Manitoba. The Peace
Garden is at the centre of the U. S.-Canada border, 32 mi. northeast of
Bottineau, N. Dak. Half of it is in the U. S., half in Canada.
President Hoover and Governor General Lord Bessborough sent greetings.
Some 50,000 people raised their hands, solemnly swore: "To God in
His Glory, we two nations dedicate this garden, and pledge ourselves
that as long as men shall live we will not take up arms against one
another, so help us God."}