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Show j Lord Byng of Vimy and Canada . . . - . . fc If tT5 LT.. IWltn H-rtiatiitnloi Tlie appointment of Lord 11 ng o! Vlmy as governor general of Canada has been as well received as could 1m expected from a people many of whou are looking' forward to the day whet the representative of the crown of Canada will be named en the recom menilatloii of Its own government There Is no evidence that the Canndl an government was consulted In tbt slightest degree before the appelnt met 1 1 Mas made. The Job of a govern-, or general of one of the group of Brit-lib Brit-lib nations of today is a new kind of Job, III- Job Is to sae the face of an obxotete order of things. Ills task Is to preserve the wnililnnco of an an 'ihorltj-that no longer exists. 1 Byng made his reputation In the late unrnhcn.lu command of the Canadians, he captured Vlmy Itldge In the sprlug of 11)17. The significance of Vlmy was that no position could bei 11 I regarded as "Impregnable" In the face I lioc'im (rained and eiiilpped as the Canadians were. After Vlmy, Ujng ttiiH elevated to the coinimiudershlp of the third Hrlllsli array. He was created cre-ated a lord, and handed SIWI.OOO In cold cash na a "gratuity" by a grateful parliament. He Is u younger mm (he evutli wn of (he earl of Stafford. l.mly lljng Is a novelist, author of "Harriers" and "Anne of the Marshlands." Marsh-lands." Put Itldeau Hull will not Unbw the olcc of children's laughter, for (he H.vngx are childless. |