Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada, the cradle of professional hockey talent, once again had drawn a bead on the National Hockey League crown. With the new season barely two weeks old, last year's Runner-Up Toronto Maple Leafs and Champion Montreal Canadiens were leading the league. Toronto was sitting pretty with six straight wins, one loss; Montreal had won four, lost...
...question of Canadian Army reinforcements. Evidence had been piling up that reinforcements for Canada's overseas army were inadequate. In Calgary, Brigadier P. R. Shields, home after five years of fighting, said that when he left England "they were scraping the bottom of the pot." The Montreal Gazette frontpaged a letter from a soldier wounded on the Western Front: "... all the politicians lie who say that reinforcements are adequate. ..." From London came word that the First Canadian Army, already reinforced by Poles, Czechs, Dutch and Belgians, was being further reinforced by U.S. troops...
...Verdun, a suburb of Montreal, Alex Walker, national president of the influential Canadian Legion, spoke up: "At this very moment youngsters of 18, 19 and 20 are dying on the battlefields of Europe while a fully trained army remains at home. I tell you that if this is the price of unity, then the price is too high...
...sooner had the Yugoslavs explained than up popped another problem. Both London's Polish Government in Exile and the Moscow-sponsored National Committee of Liberation in Lublin made formal application for relief on behalf of Poland. At UNRRA's last meeting in Montreal a fortnight ago, delegates from the London Poles had sat unhappily silent, under strict instructions to say nothing and do nothing to rock the boat. Now a major issue was out in the open. Theoretically it was up to UNRRA's Big Three (the U.S., Britain and Russia) for settlement. Actually the final decision...
...night during the Quebec Conference, Jean Marie Rodrigue, Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, had dined with President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Thereupon he canceled a projected trip to Mexico. A big Lancaster bomber flew him from Montreal to Britain (it was the first plane trip of his 60 years and he loved it). In London he stayed in a darkly elegant house behind Westminster Cathedral as the guest of Archbishop Bernard Griffin, called briefly on Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and other officials. He had an audience with King George...