Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British." As a Canadian, and therefore a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Mr. Lapointe would be the first to tell you that he was British. The people of English-speaking Canada do not doubt that he is British-in that sense. The fact that he has a French name, is of French race, and speaks the French language as his mother tongue, are not barriers in Canada...
...French Canadians are, ipso facto, whether they like it or not, British, and I assure you that the vast majority of them not only like it but are inordinately proud...
Probably the greatest Prime Minister in our history was Sir Wilfrid Laurier, than whom no finer example of British-French-Canadianism is extant...
...Canadian Prime Ministers since 1867 only French Canadian was Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1896 to 1911). British to the core, he spoke French with an English accent, English with a French accent...
Humpty France and Dumpty Germany continued sitting on their walls last week. Neither had a great fall and neither required more horses or men. The French did some digging in and dragged up some heavy artillery back of Perl at their supposedly "weak" corner by the Luxembourg frontier, where the right flank of a German assault would be protected by neutral territory. They sent about 1,000 men charging up a hill southwest of Pirmasens beside the Hornbach salient, but the Germans counterattacked and the French, after using planes to strafe their assailants for the first time in this...