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...bill now gets a cursory third reading, has to be passed by Canada's aged Senators, will then become the law of the land-leaving still unsettled English-speaking Canada's desire that Dominion manpower be immediately available for worldwide service. In 126 conscription speeches in Parliament since June 10, not one M.P. mentioned that 500 Quebec municipalities were reported to have signed a pledge never to accept overseas conscription under any circumstances. Not one quoted the anonymously written paraphrase of the Twenty-third Psalm which was making the rounds of Canada...
Tonight at 8 o'clock at New Lecture Hall in his second lecture, "India Today," Elliott will deal with the Indian political and racial questions, and other acute conflicts caused by the war. The urgent demand for "Dominion Status," "The Indian National Congress," the Moslem League, and the Native States are all points he will consider in his discussion...
...will remain until the war is over. But then, as in other countries throughout the world, a tragic era of depression may return. M.P. Harry Mc-Neil, adding more gloom to Tom Johnston's picture of Scottish industry, foreseeing new threats to Scottish livelihood in the bounding Dominion increase in steel production, in the "staggering" rate of U.S. shipbuilding, made clear that the home rule of Scottish nationalists is not the answer. Those who raise the "Scots Wha Hae" cry, he said, will "have to learn to sing it to the tune of the Atlantic Charter...
...duty, win or die. God helping us, we can do no other." Not many Britons realized that these final words were a graceful echo from Woodrow Wilson's declaration of war in 1917. President Wilson, speaking of the establishment of a universal dominion of right by free people, had said: "To such a task we can dedicate our lives and fortunes. . . . America . . . God helping her . . . can do no other...
Carrots and umbrellas. Sir Stafford Cripps. India. Empire. Dominion...