Word: conscripts
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...fifth year of war the Canadian Government, which hesitates to conscript men for service overseas, started still another campaign for overseas volunteers. Canadians who think the Government should order all-out conscription grumped over the expense ($306,000), snorted at the come-on posters, fretted that such tough talk in the press and on the radio covered up political weakness at Ottawa...
...World War I, Colonel James Layton Ralston, then a battalion commander in the trenches, demanded that Canadians at home be conscripted to fight overseas. Last week in Parliament, Colonel Ralston, now Canada's National Defense Minister, told Canadians no conscript would fight overseas-so long as Canada had enough volunteers...
...Spectre. Gnarled, cheerful Jim Tweedy, who has spent 60 of his 71 years in the mines, put his finger on one trouble with Bevin's plan. Said he: "If you conscript a man for the Army he goes willingly to fight for country, home and bairns. If you conscript him for the pits he is told to fight for other men's profit." The House's lone Communist Willie Gallacher said it another way: "If it is proposed to ballot young men into the pits, it is time to ballot the owners...
...exist." Previously he had granted the Sinarquistas permission to colonize Lower California. He had straddled successfully Mexico's widely separated right and left for two difficult years. His major attempts to fight the Sinarquistas had been to spread leaflets and inspire articles telling the Mexican people that the conscript army would not be sent to fight in foreign wars...
After a national plebiscite Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King took the power, through an order-in-council, to send conscripts abroad-but has not used it. Last week Australia's dour, lank John Curtin sought the same power. Before Parliament was a draft-act amendment that, if it did not carry, might cause his Government to fall. To U.S. soldiers who had come 8,000 miles to help defend Australia, it seemed ludicrous that Australian troops, aside from volunteers, could not move freely throughout the South Pacific. But the Labor Party's no-conscript-overseas plank...