Word: mclure
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Away. . . ." Government policy is to treat Japs already in Canada as human beings but to ban all further immigration. But not all Canadians subscribe to this policy. In the House of Commons Chester McLure, Conservative from Prince Edward Island, stood up and intemperately ranted: "Away with those human rats. God forbid that our nation should ever again allow one of them to set foot on Canada's soil." One Government official angrily cried that he would prefer, personally, "to throw out every god damned one of them," regardless of citizenship. No Government, of course, would ever allow such...