Word: layton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's reinforcements debate was out in the open at last, First Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, his dander up, defended his determination to stick to a policy of voluntary overseas military service. Then James Layton Ralston, fired as Defense Minister in last fortnight's crisis over the issue, told why he favored compulsion...
...crisis in the Canadian Government has been simmering for weeks. Last week it boiled over. Out as Defense Minister went bulky, ruddy James Layton Ralston...
...Compulsion. In isolationist Quebec, "conscription" is a fighting word. In deference to Quebec, Prime Minister King had always insisted that there should be no compulsion on any Canadian to serve outside of Canada. Now he had summoned his Cabinet to hear Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, just back from overseas. The Canadian casualty toll, 61,295 in September, was up more than 10,000 since Aug. 1. Since then, the Canadian infantry in France had suffered fur ther heavy losses. The question before the Cabinet: were there enough reinforcements to support the Canadian Army abroad adequately, or had the time...
...World War I, Colonel James Layton Ralston, then a battalion commander in the trenches, demanded that Canadians at home be conscripted to fight overseas. Last week in Parliament, Colonel Ralston, now Canada's National Defense Minister, told Canadians no conscript would fight overseas-so long as Canada had enough volunteers...
Many a House member agreed. But for Pouliot to say it out loud was a gross breach of Parliamentary rules. Quick to point out the breach was Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, himself a favorite target of Pouliot's interminable tirades. The Deputy Speaker upheld the Minister, ruled that Pouliot must withdraw his words. Pouliot declined. Then he was given the dinner recess to reconsider or be "named" (forced to leave the Chamber...