hose best work
of the war was done during that period, he gives us no perspective. Is
it not just to admit that though the four reduced Canadian
divisions--with certain attachments--had defeated forty-seven German
divisions, they had conquered divisions terribly more reduced than
their own and absolutely without reserves in either men or materials
and devoid of the last vestige of morale? The great bluff was about to
break. It was due to have broken sooner.

When the armistice came all the armies but the Canadians laid down
their arms. Currie had not finished his work. He had planned the
whole hundred days, beginning with Cambrai, and the apex of that
achievement after the breaking of the infallible Hindenburg line, was
the recapture of Mons. He was once more "insubordinate". He did not
seem to pay respect to the armistice. His men had often said that they
wanted to fight Heine on German soil. Denied that, at least they
wanted a chance to be part of the army of occupation, as far east as
Cologne. Currie could never have ordered an unwilling army--not that
army unwilling--to march 150 miles into Germany. He had an army of
conquest, not of armistice. But the stereopticon and the slides:

What was to be done with this soldier at home? How could he be
re-established in civil life? Thanks to the Administration's
predicament in trying to please both the General and his enemies, here
was the worst D.S.C.R. problem of the lot. Thanks to McGill
University, the predicament was removed.

A sagacious professor in McGill who knows by experience what it is to
get the ear of the public, said when Currie was appointed President
that almost the entire faculty were opposed to him because the idea was
so ridiculous. That professor now alleges proudly that faculty,
students and management are all convinced that Currie is a wonderful
President; that he has revolutionized all existing ideas about the
headship of a university, that he understands even the academic mind;
that the _esprit de corps_ of McGill is such as it never was.

In short, nobody is left to remark--

"I say, what a pity Geddes left us in the lurch!"

They are making a new stereopticon for that slide.

A COAT OF MANY COLOURS

SIR JOHN WILSON

After a life of wearing Joseph's coat, Sir John Willison, ex-editor of
the _Toronto Globe_ and of the _News_, finds himself President of the
National Reconstruction Association. Programme--to reconstruc