Foreign News: Fence Mended

Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King won a major political victory in Canada last week. The Liberal Party in Ontario, Canada's richest and most populous province, designated rooster-beaked Harry Corwin Nixon, an all-out King man, as Party leader and the next Premier of Ontario.

For eight years Ontario's Premier had been Mackenzie King's flamboyant enemy, Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn. Last October Mitch resigned, named pompous Gordon Conant (known to Toronto newsmen as "God") to succeed him. Conant thought until last week that he would be the new Premier. When Liberals, including Hepburn, ignored him at the Party convention and deserted him, Conant went off to a hospital to rest. Mitch himself stayed in political retirement on his onion farm.