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...rationed U.S. gawked in awe and envy. Canadians were delighted. In Parliament, Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley had guardedly answered an M.P.'s question about current Canadian meat surpluses by saying that the Government "will consider" discontinuing meat rationing and meatless Tuesdays...
...haired James Lorimer Ilsley, who ably runs Canada's finances, is a social lion who snubs the snob...
From the packed galleries of the Canadian House of Commons last week came gasps of surprise as lean, sandy-thatched Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley presented his new budget. Then, from the people who must pay the bill, came applause...
Bluntly last week Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley put the basic issues to his Nova Scotia constituents: "To vote 'no' is to vote for isolationism, and isolationism is short-sighted and inevitably fails those who adhere to it. A 'no' vote would play into the hands of the enemy and their fifth-column allies...
...Government is sure it will win the plebiscite, for to 9,000.000 Anglo-Canadians Minister Ilsley's words sounded like simple common sense. The real question is how the 3,000,000 French Canadians will vote. In 1918 there were draft riots in the Province of Quebec; there have been draft riots there again this year; and the plebiscite will add little to national unity if the French vote isolationist and Quebec turns thumbs down on conscription...