Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political sunlight streamed down on pallid Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King during the conference at Quebec. Thousands of pictures in thousands of newspapers showed him basking between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. The broad Prime Minister beamed, thinking perhaps that Canadians who have been showering cold criticism on his wartime administration would now see him in the proper light: as a statesman helping to make big Allied decisions with Churchill and Roosevelt...
...soon as the Quebec sunshine faded, Mackenzie King faced his gravest home-front crisis of the war. Louder than ever, Canadians asked: 1) why prices continue to climb despite numerous war controls and restrictions; 2) why Canada's manpower seems so planlessly distributed; 3) why Prime Minister Mackenzie King avoids a Federal election...
Evidence from Quebec. At its 59th annual convention in Quebec, the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, representing 1,828 local unions, demanded that Mackenzie King's Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, be fired at once. The convention cheered Ernest Ingles, delegate from Vancouver, as he charged that both the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and Canada's conscription system were "anti-labor." Delegate Ingles called W.P.T.B. Chairman Donald Gordon "the strongest Nazi element in this country...
...power conference with the U.S.A. and Great Britain. Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov is understood to have communicated this decision to Admiral William H. Standley and to Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, the U.S. and British Ambassadors in Moscow, this week, evidently in reply to a proposal from Quebec...
After this address, the Prime Minister and members of the official party went to the Fogg Art Museum for a comparatively small luncheon given by the University before Mr. Churchill returned to the conferences begun at Quebec...