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Materiel. Not a single Army rifle had been made in Canada up to this week. Neither had the Dominion made a single tank, although one of the Canadian Pacific Railway shops was said to be working on "tank hulls." (The machinery would have to come from somewhere else...
...anyone brash enough to accuse corpulent, complacent Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of diddling & dawdling in getting the Dominion on a war footing, he can truthfully crack back that Canada has just fought out on that issue an election which his Government won by a landslide (TIME, April 8). That, however, was before the Nazis crashed through Flanders, crushed France. Last week the hottest issue in the Dominion was again Government war diddling & dawdling. Only wartime censorship averted open scandal. Items...
Last year only 400 engineless war planes were built in Canada. The Dominion is now turning out just 30 of these per week, and $8,000,000 worth of engines are on order in the U. S. for delivery in ten months...
Last week President Moore was in Ottawa, trying to convince CBC officials that these sources are "authentic." Said he, darkly: "Selfish publishing and monopolistic interests in Canada . . . have leagued themselves together to destroy independent news services throughout the Dominion...
Canadian police sent word to the Free Press to recall the papers, but virtually the entire edition had been gobbled up by wild-eyed Windsor citizens. In outlying communities, police and vigilantes chased newsboys off the streets. A copy went to Ottawa, where Dominion censors stared at it aghast, took up their pens to add the Free Press to the list of banned U. S. periodicals...