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Some 35,000 Chinese now live in Canada. The Dominion never excluded Japanese, now has some 12,500 in resettlement and internment camps, another 11,000 at large. The Prime Minister, making his amends to China last week, had color-touchy British Columbians in mind when he expressed a hope that there would be no opposition "in any part of Canada...
Last week the House of Commons set a jubilant stage for Winston Churchill in his imperial role. For two days men of all parties hailed Commonwealth and Empire, bucked up officialdom for the coming conference of Dominion Prime Ministers (TIME, April 24). Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, most persistent of Churchill-baiters and a recent convert to Empire, called the common tune: ''Sir, we have no intention, any one of us, of throwing the British Commonwealth of Nations overboard in order to satisfy a section of the American press or anyone else...
Doukhobors began boycotting war in Czarist Russia a century ago, eventually had to leave. Most of the Dominion's 17,000 industrious, abstemious "Douks" have accepted pacifist alternatives to national service; only the obstreperous sect-within-a-sect called Sons of Freedom balked. In court, the Czar of Heaven disdained to take the oath, said that he would sooner kiss the magistrate than kiss the Bible. Disrobers got two years in the penitentiary; the Czar, a $5 fine...
...Toronto, Canada's wartime housing shortage approached its worst. As the Dominion's traditional moving day (May 1) neared, 1,000 families were on a vain hunt for houses to rent. One man advertised: "Shall I drown my wife and baby or will someone rent us an apartment?" He got 200 calls asking if he had done it, one offering a flat...
...London, awaiting the first wartime meeting of Dominion Prime Ministers with almost as much interest as the invasion, there was much speculation as to how "Honest Jack" would stack against the plain & fancy pressures he would find in Britain. Well did the men of politics recall the strange coincidence that Australian First Ministers who visit London while in office usually soon find themselves out of a job. Australians, they knew, liked their politicians plain, were quick to toss a man bemused by pomp & circumstance...