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...party that has drifted along on outworn policies for 20 years, and has been, at best, a bumbling wartime parliamentary opposition, the Conservatives face a difficult task in regaining the Dominion's confidence. As Progressive-Conservatives under "Honest Jack" Bracken they have what may be their last opportunity. Party leaders expected to draft a platform that would: 1) attack the Liberal Party where it is most vulnerable (pussyfooting on basic war problems); 2) woo enough diverse support to capitalize on the expected post-war reaction to the present Liberal regime, As a starter, the party approved a four-point...
Prime Minister Smuts was scheduled soon to address a special assembly of both Houses of Parliament-the first ever called to hear a Dominion statesman. His audience could be sure that the Dominions' Smuts would be global in his concern...
...long day, the 80-year-old Marquess of Salisbury had viewed many things with alarm. He was horrified (1934) at the idea that his government might offer India dominion status-"the ideal of Gandhi!" He thought (1936) King Edward's abdication "a disaster that left [the body politic] mutilated and torn." He considered (1937) that allowing divorce on the ground of desertion or incurable in sanity would "launch the marriage laws of England on a path of which one cannot...
Said Churchill: The rejected Cripps proposal of post-war dominion status and a possible Hindu-Moslem partition "is the settled policy of the British Crown and Parliament." (While he spoke, responsible Hindu, Sikh and Moslem minority leaders demanded a wartime national government...
...Montreal last week men and women waited in block-long lines to apply for permits to get jobs, or to leave jobs they already had. The Canadian Government was mobilizing all the manpower of the sprawling Dominion to put its immense resources completely into the war effort...