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When General Andrew G. L. McNaughton became Canada's Minister of National Defense last November, he stepped into the battle of politics, in which the tactics were strange and the weapons stranger...
...entered the Cabinet to make the Government's policy of no-overseas-conscription work, and almost at once had adopted a policy of conscription. Then, during the heated Grey North by-election campaign (TIME, Feb. 12), in which he was seeking a seat in Parliament, Minister McNaughton stumbled over his own security regulations. He said publicly that U-boats were torpedoing Allied ships in the Atlantic "day by day." Eyebrows were lifted. They were lifted higher when, after his Grey North defeat, McNaughton seemed to be a poor loser. Said he: "We are . . . congratulating...
...campaign had been fought almost solely over one supercharged issue: the Dominion Government's policy of partial military conscription. The Liberal candidate was the man charged with making that policy work: National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton. The voters had heard Tory orators toss flat charges of inadequate reinforcements and shipboard mutinies among draftees. General McNaughton had denounced such stories as "lies," and three times Prime Minister King had asked for McNaughton's election. The riding had returned Liberals to Parliament in 1935 and 1940. But this time it was different...
Almost out of the question now was another session of Parliament. Mr. King himself said there would be no purpose in holding one without Minister McNaughton in the House. He would, he said, give ''immediate attention" to the necessity for a general election...
...Unwarranted and Unworthy." He pleaded for General McNaughton's election. He assailed the opposition. All through the war years, he said, he had sought to avoid "unnecessary . . . political controversy." Mr. King had hoped that McNaughton, needing a seat in Parliament, would be unopposed. Instead, the two opposition parties were stirring up controversy. This attitude in wartime, said Mr. King, was "unwarranted and unworthy." He warned that unless the two opposing candidates withdrew, "it will obviously be the duty of the Government to consider whether any useful purpose could be served by attempting to hold another session of Parliament." Even...