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Canadians know Mitch Hepburn as the Liberal Premier of Ontario, a tough, loud-talking self-made politico on the lines of the late Huey Long, whose political leitmotiv is making ill-tempered cracks at the leader of the Dominion's Liberal Party, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. They know him as a onetime pal of Quebec's smalltime "fascist" Maurice Duplessis, but now 110% for all aid to Britain. They know him as a perennial dark horse who, because of his enmity to King, can never be counted on to take the leading role in the Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Big Wind from Ontario | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...export program helps the Allies, is immediately aimed at Canada. Although Dominion textilites have always liked U.S. cotton, they switched to Brazilian cotton this year because it was 6? a Ib. cheaper (normal discount: less than 1?) than the U.S. product. The new subsidy makes up most of this difference. Soon U.S. cotton will move out of warehouses to be manufactured in Canada (uniforms, bandages, guncotton), shipped to active duty overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Glacier Melts | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...effort to get on with the war in spite of the fact that India's politicians still refuse to wait till war's end for India's promised dominion status, the British Raj last week appointed seven "distinguished and representative" Indians to posts in the Viceroy's Executive Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Nation Girds | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...last week the course of Foreign Minister Matsuoka-a course of adventuresome diplomacy combined with military caution-had put Japan into one of the worst dilemmas of her history. Japan had to decide, and quickly, whose sun was setting on the horizon of world dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: So Delicate Situation | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...advantage in Ethiopia. They were the crux of T. E. Lawrence's successful operations in World War I. But in World War I the British position in the Middle East was exactly the opposite of the present position: then Britain was out to deliver the Arabs from Turkish dominion; now the British are supposed to be oppressors, and the Axis warriors call themselves liberating knights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: The Battle Joins | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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