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...greatest pressure of all came from rank-&-file members of Mr. King's own Liberal Party. To Ottawa they had brought sobering news from every English-speaking province. In caucus, they told the Prime Minister that the people were outraged. The voters were asking: Does Quebec rule Canada...
This time Mr. King pleased practically no one. The Government had produced another half-measure. Canadians outside Quebec, noting all the "ifs," wondered whether the Government really intended sending any zombies overseas...
...months, the No. 1 spiritual adviser to Quebec's isolationist-minded millions had been very close to the war. As Military Vicar of all Roman Catholics in Canada's armed forces, His Eminence Jean Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve had toured battlefronts, talked to fighting men of all ranks. Last week a big Lancaster brought him home...
...send Canada's current batch of zombies overseas because out of the 68,000 on hand, only 8,000 would make good infantrymen without months of training. Then he hit at what he called a "false impression": that most zombies are French Canadians. "Only 23,000 are from . . . Quebec and only 25,000 ... are French-speaking...
Field Marshal Dill was a fast worker, but he knew no hours. To force him to rest, George Marshall took him to his home in Virginia for weekends, sometimes took him canoeing on the Potomac. When the second Quebec Conference was called, General Dill's physician forbade him to go. He went anyhow...