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declare war on Germany forthwith. "In the German view the American defense program means that the U. S. has already joined with Great Britain and France in opposing the Nazi drive for world dominion-in the American view, Nazi Germany is the mortal enemy of our ideals, our institutions and our way of life. What we have, what we are and what we hope to be can now be most effectively defended on the line in France held by General Weygand. The frontier of our national interest is now on the Somme. Therefore all disposable air, naval, military and material...
...months after Canada declared war on Germany last fall, one of the world's most rigorous censorships closed down over the Dominion (TIME, Nov. 20). Last week it was still in force. Of their own war efforts, Canadians learned only what the Dominion Government thought they ought to know. Allied defeats in Europe were honeycoated (partly by censorship, partly by editorial optimism) for the Dominion press...
Plewman is Canada's only first-rate public military analyst. His integrity is a legend in Canada. Born in Bristol, England, son of a Methodist leatherworker, Plewman emigrated to the Dominion with his family when he was eight, in school and church set a long-standing record for juvenile deportment. Not long after he went to work as a reporter, he stood for vice president of the Toronto Press Club, put up posters reading: "Plewman for Vice." Up went placards by his rival: "What does Plew man know about vice?" He was defeated...
...Canada the newly elected Dominion Parliament met for the first time. Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had behind him 182 seats in a House of 245. Opposition Leader Richard Burpee Hanson, elected in caucus last week by the beaten Canadian Conservatives, was eager to jump on the Empire defense band wagon of Winston Churchill. Only criticism hurled at Canada's Prime Minister last week in Ottawa was that the Dominion is not being prepared for war. That was the issue on which the election had been held...
Meanwhile the Canadian Communist Party was declared outlawed amid a rush of Dominion feeling against Red quislings. ∧ Nazi invasion of The Netherlands and Belgium caused a great spurt in New Zealand recruiting. Prime Minister Peter Fraser, who during World War I was a conscientious objector jailed for "seditious utterances," is now all out for Allied victory, cabled to Prime Minister Churchill a pledge of "the fullest cooperation of New Zealand's Government and people, Europeans and Maoris alike." Recruiting spurted strongly on news of the latest Nazi Blitzkrieg...