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...result of November's Parliamentary crisis over conscription (TIME, Nov. 13), General McNaughton had become the key man in the whole Dominion Government. It was up to him to make the Government's new conscription system work. To do so, he needed a seat in Parliament. Grey North's voters now had a chance, ahead of any other part of Canada, to express their like or dislike of Prime Minister King's conscription policies...
When Humorist A. P. Herbert visited Newfoundland in 1943 as a member of the British Parliamentary commission, he found nothing funny about the plight of that Atlantic island. Said he of Britain's oldest colony, which temporarily gave up Dominion status in 1934: "Little Newfoundland is about the most . . . complicated puzzle in the whole imperial scene. Something of the religious, political and, indeed, industrial problems of Ireland and of India ... all the problems of empire are crammed into one . . . place...
...Dominion's Office in London never published the commission's formal report. But last week in London the commission's chairman, Labor Peer Lord Ammon, put his own recommendations on record. He rejected as "unacceptable" the solution for Newfoundland's problems most often proposed by outsiders: confederation with Canada...
Fishy things seemed to be happening at the Canadian ends of Detroit's traffic links to the Dominion-the Windsor Fleetway Tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge. Windsor Star Columnist R. M. Harrison investigated, came away breathing hard. In righteous wrath next day he exposed some sleazy maneuverings by gas-hungry U.S. citizens...
...Minister McIntosh had powerful arguments to make to Canada's Government. The cooperative deal was an attractive prospect for the Dominion's postwar economy-as far as the farmers could see. And for the time being, at least, the farmer's view was C.C.F.'s view...