Word: conscriptionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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