Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate on the amendment would not break into a roar until its second reading, later this week. At that time, the Prime Minister was expected to attempt another appeasement of French-speaking Quebec Province by indicating that conscription would not be invoked until absolutely necessary. If he didn't, this week's resignation of Transport Minister Pierre Cardin was a forerunner of a bolt from the Liberal Party of virtually every French Canadian in the Cabinet and in Parliament...
Conscription Never. Quebec had been the only province that voted No, by an almost solid block of votes from its French-Canadian majority. The French Canadians had thus turned the rest of Canada against them. Loud-mouthed Maurice Duplessis, onetime Fascist follower, now opposition leader of the Quebec Legislature, tried to capitalize on the anti-conscription sentiment by storming: "That promise of the Government is not one that can be annulled by a majority...
Littauer Fellowships have been awarded to: Gilbert R. Barnhart, of Washington, D. C., A.B. Syracuse University '38, Administrative Assistant, Office of Budget and Finance, United States Department of Agriculture; Alexander J. Boudreau, of Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Quebec, B.S.A. Laval University '33, Field Representative of Department of Fisheries, Ottawa; Arthur D. Bouterse, of Richmond, Va., A.B. Asbury College '28, A.M. University of Chicago '36, Supervisor of Research and Statistics, Department of Welfare of Virginia, 1936-1941, at present a student in the School; Victor H. Bringe of Madison, Wisc., B.A. University of Wisconsin '41, Administrator of Residence Halls, University...
...voted on the hotly argued proposition that would allow the Government to conscript men for overseas service (TIME, April 27). In this critical test of Canada's wartime unity, incomplete returns indicated a 7-to-3 victory for the Government-chiefly over the vote of French Canadians in Quebec, where rural balloting went heavily...
...Government is sure it will win the plebiscite, for to 9,000.000 Anglo-Canadians Minister Ilsley's words sounded like simple common sense. The real question is how the 3,000,000 French Canadians will vote. In 1918 there were draft riots in the Province of Quebec; there have been draft riots there again this year; and the plebiscite will add little to national unity if the French vote isolationist and Quebec turns thumbs down on conscription...