Word: chaloult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chaloult, a French Canadian bigot who never thought that Canada should enter the war, seriously proposed last week that she should quit...
This proposal got nowhere. But Member Chaloult whipped through a thoroughly cowed Quebec legislature, by a vote of 55-to-4, a resolution opposing the sending of conscripted Canadians overseas. Said Chaloult: "Great Britain and the United States . . . together with Russia and China have something to win in the end. Their soldiers should be used to fill...
...Chaloult, who belongs to no party, picked his words with care. They pointed up French Canadian fears that invasion losses will soon compel Canada to abandon her voluntary system of overseas service, send conscripts abroad. And to support overseas conscription is still as much as a Quebec politician's political life is worth, as it has been since World War II began...
With Leadership. Fierce words were spouted by a provincial lawyer-legislator named Rene Chaloult, who made a bid for antidemocratic, nationalistic support by ridiculing the war effort of Russia, China and Britain. He called on French-Canadians "to seek points of contact" and hinted darkly: "There is always an after-war, and we shall know what we have...
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