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...Government's National War Finance Committee, blushing with embarrassment, suddenly withdrew from circulation a poster with which it had been plugging Victory Bond sales. On a facsimile of a bond, a grudging artist had squiggled in minuscule script: "The Government of the Dominion of Canada [two illegible words] have gone too far to be of any good use [ten illegible words...
...there were still disturbing inconveniences and uncertainties. Coal was scarce and in the cities firewood was almost unobtainable. Strikes were spreading. Management, resentful of Government controls, was beginning to resist. What was more, before winter's end there would surely be other frightening reconversion humps for the Dominion to climb. Yet Canada, celebrating Thanksgiving Day* last week, found plenty to be thankful...
...Dominion's 24,000 Japanese had Ottawa puzzled. What to do with them...
Others, who want to stay in Canada, fear they will never be welcome again. Mrs. K. Matsuda, 35, born in the Dominion, is married to a Jap national. She has been resettled in Winnipeg with her two children, Takumi, 3, and Atsushi, 6. Sadly she says: "People say things that hurt your feelings. They tell me we don't believe in God. If we did, the Japs couldn't . . . [commit atrocities] to Canadian men." Said she last week: "I don't know what they will do with...
Henley fought with vigor from the editorial chairs of some half-dozen magazines, including the famed National Observer. He had three great enemies: 1) the new esthetic movement, 2) Socialism (which he termed "the Dominion of the Common Fool") and 3) the powerful Victorian convention that all writing must be tailored to suit young ladies...