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...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...
...National Defense Minister James Layton Ralston is a Baptist, a great Canadian, a hog for detail...
Conscription Now. Both Defense Minister James Layton Ralston and Navy Minister Angus MacDonald had declared publicly that they needed no conscripts to augment the flow of volunteers. But they and others led the Cabinet faction demanding immediate conscription, as a token to the eight English-speaking provinces that the Government accepted the popular mandate for conscription...
...plainest words spoken to Winston Churchill last week came from one of his and one of Lord Beaverbrook's good friends. Said the scholarly London Economist, partly owned by the Prime Minister's friend Brendan Bracken and the Beaver's first lieutenant Sir Walter Layton...