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Died. Arthur Meighen, 86, scholarly leader (1920-26) of Canada's Conservative party and, for 17 months in 1920-21, the nation's youngest Prime Minister at 46; in Toronto...
Last Chance? Meeting in Bracken's home town (Winnipeg), the right-left Tories opened their convention with a brave skirl of pipes. They gave a rousing farewell to able Senator Arthur Meighen, whose party leadership collapsed last February when he was defeated in a parliamentary by-election. They gave as rousing a welcome to quiet, friendly, pince-nezed, 59-year-old Bracken, electing him on the second ballot...
What inspired most of the worry was that patrician, patronizing Arthur Meighen, who sponsored conscription in 1917, had been dusted out of the Senate, made Conservative leader and heeled with Tory funds to start a conscription crusade (TIME, Nov. 24). Without Ernest Lapointe to pull the proper strings at the proper time, such a crusade might end in a free...
...until the next session of Parliament, in January, will Leader Meighen be able to assume active command of his Party. Before then he must resign his Senate seat, accept a seat in the House which some Conservative member will, by convention, surrender...
...contrast, Conservative Meighen, as a member of the Cabinet during World War I, sponsored conscription, earned the Conservatives the lasting and damaging enmity of most French Canadians. In World War II Meighen has sat in the quiet backwater of Canada's appointive Senate, making subacid wisecracks about Mackenzie King's conduct of the war. He wants overall conscription, abolition of the excess-profits tax. He scoffs at the Prime Minister's "twilight twittering" about joint Canada-U.S. defense planning, grows rabid because Canada does not ban all U.S. periodicals with an isolationist slant. To Arthur Meighen...