Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand for the power to enforce overseas conscription-and the Government's pledge not to enforce it unless necessary. The Conservative Opposition, which wants immediate conscription, snorted that the "Government has now looped the loop three times." but sided with Mackenzie King's Liberals. Forty-five Quebec Liberals bolted their Party, voted against the measure. They picked up two Quebec independents, one rebellious Ontario Liberal and six members of the schoolmarmishly socialistic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation...
Blunt and true were the words of aged and revered Brigadier General George P. Vanier, commanding officer of the Fifth (Quebec) Military District...
...Continent. Already the beaches of the Atlantic were stained with the brown blood of ships that could not be spared. Now oily hemorrhages spread on the flats of two great rivers. One of them was the St. Lawrence. Between its wildly beautiful banks, in the midriff of stubbornly isolationist Quebec, the German crept and waited. He nailed two ships in inland waters, and Quebec began searching its soul as it had never searched before...
...nothing. He stalled Parliamentary debate on the conscription issue, in the hope that something would turn up. As usual, something did, this time in the ugly form of torpedoes (see p. 20} streaking across the chill waters of the St. Lawrence River, for centuries the heartstream of French Quebec. The St. Lawrence sinkings had the effect of dousing cold water on many of the hotheads in Quebec who had not been able to forget old grievances, economic maladjustment and religious and racial issues in the face of common danger. At week's end, a two-week truce...
...were not annulled, Mackenzie King would face what the Ottawa Journal described as "eruptions in this country" everywhere but in Quebec. If it were annulled, Quebec might erupt. Wee Willie King had to make up his mind...