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...Dominion's 24,000 Japanese had Ottawa puzzled. What to do with them...
This week, as Ottawa waited for permission from Douglas MacArthur to ship the 10,000-plus to Japan, complications were coming fast. In the Tashme (B.C.) repatriation camp, 70% of the Japs had changed their minds; now they want to stay in Canada. In Montreal, other prospective repats asked to withdraw their requests to leave; Japan no longer seemed a good place to live...
Meanwhile, the hosts of the resettled were kicking up a fuss. From Alberta came a reminder to Ottawa that its Japs were temporary residents. The Union of British Columbia Municipalities demanded that every one of the Japs be repatriated to Japan...
...Ottawa...
...Ottawa, Justice Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent set Oct. 11 and Oct. 15 as hearing days, appointed a com mittee of three Liberals (himself, Mines and Resources Minister James A. Glen, Solicitor General Joseph Jean) to hear the oral arguments. From the Federal verdict there would be no appeal...