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...Larger Problem. In these camps are some 12,000 Japanese, both Canadian-born Nisei and immigrants from Nippon. Eleven thousand others have found temporary work in lumber camps or farms in other provinces. Of the 23,000 Japanese in Canada, only 431 have been interned since Pearl Harbor, 256 of them Canadian citizens. In spite of this record, British Columbians (and most Canadians) view both Nisei and other Japanese with deep suspicion. Unlike the U.S., Canada has not called any Canadians of Japanese blood in her draft...
...Pacific Coast some Canadians argue that the only way to handle Canada's Japanese after the war is to repatriate them to Japan. But since 13,000 of them are Canadian-born and many of these do not even speak Japanese, this proposal offers no solution of the larger problem: what to do with this now-homeless and unwanted minority...
...Dominion-wide Gallup poll this week revealed that 80% of all Canadians think that Japs who are not citizens should be deported to Japan. On the other hand, 59% think naturalized or Canadian-born Japs should be allowed to stay...
Died. George Brant Bridgman, 79, U.S. art's top-ranking teacher of anatomy, for 44 years a lecturer at Manhattan's Art Students League; after long illness; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Small, bald, Canadian-born Bridgman studied under Gerome and Boulanger in Paris, developed in his famed Constructive Anatomy (100,000 copies since 1920) the analogy between the human figure and geometrical forms. He proposed to teach students how to draw the human figure accurately, let them develop their own esthetic approach to the subject. He had 80,000 students, including Cartoonists Percy Crosby and Otto Soglow, Illustrators...
Postwar air transport was also up for action and argument. Winston Churchill's new Lord Privy Seal, restless, tireless, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, this week conducted an informal Empire Air Conference, to lay plans for later, more difficult talks with the U.S. and other rival nations...