H. Blair Neatby, William Lyon Mackenzie King, vol. III, 1932-1939: The Prism of Unity (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976), p. 265

Seen only in the search snippets of the Internet Archive's lending copy (catalogued under R. MacGregor Dawson, the author of the first volume), 10 Oct 2026, so the passages are fragments and their footnotes unseen. On the Vancouver post office: "Pattullo insisted that the men were a federal responsibility and that he would do nothing for them. The federal government refused to intervene"; "after increasing pressure from Vancouver and from the Opposition, the federal government reluctantly decided to evict the men"; "King had agreed to the eviction but, as a liberal, he was embarrassed by this resort to force." When Lapointe defended it in the House, King wrote in his diary that he "dealt with the police side of the matter not too effectively. Like myself he finds it very difficult to speak on matters of this kind." "But the government was lucky. Nobody was killed in the riot and the unemployed blamed Pattullo rather than the federal government."

King's diary itself (Library and Archives Canada) has not been seen. See Duff Pattullo, 22nd Premier of British Columbia: what did he get right, and what did he get wrong?.