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When Canada's official guests, the Winston Churchills, detrained at Quebec, Prime Minister and Official Host William Lyon Mackenzie King greeted them. Next day, just before the Anglo-Canadian conference, Winston Churchill good-naturedly fussed over posing for cameramen. On his right hand he put smiling Mackenzie King. Around that centerpiece he clustered the Canadian Cabinet War Committee. He said: "They want me to shake hands with a Minister," then reached out to grasp the hand of Air Minister C. G. Power...
Last week in a convention at Montreal the CCF of militant Quebec Province adopted a resolution demanding public ownership of all power resources in Canada. The resolution singled out the controversial $106,000,000 Shipshaw development in the hinterlands of Quebec (world's largest power dam, with the possible exception of Boulder), as a "scandalous exploitation of Canadian resources," made it a leading argument for public ownership, a vital campaign issue in the next election. To steer clear of interference with the war program, CCF tempered its resolution to read...
...aluminum on the American continent and to a large extent throughout the world." The method of finance, he contends, makes the project a "virtual gift" to the aluminum interests, and "the greatest financial grab ever pulled off in . . . Canada." Shipshaw, insists he, must be seized by the Province of Quebec...
...Quebec to accept the degree of Doctor of Laws from Laval University went lanky Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S. The devout Anglo-Catholic peer found one of the war's fundamental causes in "the continuous erosion" of Christianity in the past century. He noted that every attempt to eradicate Christianity has eventually placed the destroyers in the awkward position of cooking up a substitute. The French invented the Goddess of Reason, the Russians substituted "the abstraction of social collectivity," and - Hitler himself selected the formula of the Nazi faith -"the saving doctrine of the nothingness and insignificance...
Combined operations are no new thing, says Recorder Saunders. "The inevitable consequence of sea power," they were practiced by Drake against the Spaniards in 1585, by Lords Essex and Howard against Cadiz in 1596, by Wolfe against Quebec in 1759, by a grandson of the great Duke of Marlborough against the French in 1758. Long in the mind of Britain's Lieut. Colonel D. W. Clarke, today's Commandos were shaped from Clarke's knowledge of guerrilla warfare in Palestine...