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With artful compromise, he invented partial conscription. Draftees would have to go overseas-but only some of them, and maybe none at all. Neither the anti-conscriptionist French nor the pro-conscriptionist English were completely satisfied, but both grudgingly accepted the solution...
...Montreal, Paul LaFontaine, a Progressive Conservative organizer, let a plump cat out of the bag. He revealed (and John Bracken later partly confirmed) that his pro-conscriptionist party had made a secret deal with the anti-conscriptionist "independents" to support 30 of their candidates in Quebec. Behind this incongruous arrangement was the obvious hope that after the election the combined strength of the Progressive Conservatives and the "independents" would be great enough to unseat Prime Minister King, permit formation of a Progressive Conservative Government. A historical precedent buttressed this hope: a similar deal had worked in 1911, when Conservatives...
...Army has announced that it needs 48,000 more men for overseas service. The Government already has the power to change the regulations and send all men in uniform overseas, but has not done so, out of deference to bitterly anti-conscriptionist Quebec. Many Canadians suspected that a last effort was being made to avoid compulsion for zombies...
...Montreal, biggest city in Canada and next to Paris the largest French-speaking city in the world, 2,000,000 (again double the population) awaited them. So did mercurial, bouncy little Mayor Camillien Houde, anti-conscriptionist, Italophile (TIME, Feb. 20), a municipal executive with the verve of Manhattan's Mayor LaGuardia and the political slant of the late Huey Long. At the station, Queen Elizabeth delayed proceedings for a five-minute chat with kilted, Black Watch Captain S. S. T. Cantlie, but from then on Mayor Houde stole the show. He and his pert wife stole the Queen...
...before the campaign for conscription can be put through. It will mean that universal service can be successfully claimed only when there exists a lively and universal sense of obligation for benefits received--and that the benefits are not yet sufficiently apparent. If, on the other hand, such anti-conscriptionist sentiment does not materialize among some of the groups in the lower level of the social scale which have recently shown their political power and solidarity (I mean the labor unions, of course) Harvard men may well feel thankful and proud of their country and its government. At any rate...
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