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When Humorist A. P. Herbert visited Newfoundland in 1943 as a member of the British Parliamentary commission, he found nothing funny about the plight of that Atlantic island. Said he of Britain's oldest colony, which temporarily gave up Dominion status in 1934: "Little Newfoundland is about the most . . . complicated puzzle in the whole imperial scene. Something of the religious, political and, indeed, industrial problems of Ireland and of India ... all the problems of empire are crammed into one . . . place...
Four months later, Pfc. Whitehouse was shipped off to Newfoundland. He found it a bleak and lonely post, particularly in spring and summer. To while away the dull evenings, he wrote long letters to Rose. Then one day he met Nurse Theresa St. Croix: "I just met her and had a few dates and that was that...
...responsibility. He talked the matter over calmly with the baby's mother and reported: "She didn't want the baby and she didn't want me." He wrote to Rose, telling her the whole story. Rose did not reply. It took several months in a Newfoundland court, but Nurse St. Croix gladly signed the papers which made Arthur the baby's sole legal guardian. The preoccupied U.S. Army gave Private Whitehouse a 32-day emergency furlough...
...from barren rocks and cliffside perches, now enable the "weather busters" of the A.T.C. to forecast the weather across the North Atlantic mile by mile, almost hour by hour. The communications network, radio ranges and home beacons shepherd the transports and the bombers across. The great bases at Labrador, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland and the Azores provide refueling, maintenance and sometimes havens...
Saskatchewan's plan, modeled after one the province tested in the last war, provided for election, some time before Oct. 30, of a member of the Legislature from each of the three main military areas: 1) Newfoundland and all of Canada except Saskatchewan; 2) Britain and western Europe; 3) the Mediterranean theater. Officials were already overseas to handle ballots. When nominations closed Sept. 28, there were 50 candidates. Eligible for election: anyone who had enlisted in the province and been in service at least six months...