Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldierly tone of his book will remind Americans that, even if they have forgotten it in peacetime, they are one of the world's great warrior nations, that the whole continental seaboard is a great field of their battles from Quebec and Louisburg to Chapultepec; that the pitting of Americans against Americans resulted in the world's most terrible battles until World War I-on the rolling farmlands of Gettysburg, in the narrow valley of Antietam Creek, on the hills at Chickamauga, in the oak and pine thickets of Virginia's Wilderness...
...Prime Minister, W. L. Mackenzie King, is a middle-sized man with a care-furrowed brow, a neat round head neatly fringed with grey hair, and a fond expression. Cares and grey hairs come to him from troublesome Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario and scholarly Premier Adelard Godbout of Quebec; his fondness is reserved for Franklin Roosevelt. Last week Mr. King was happy: Messrs. Hepburn & Godbout were for the St. Lawrence Seaway project. Mr. King apprehensively asked whether the U. S. Government was really ready to go ahead...
...response to this increase in compulsory service and the recurrent agitation for a National Government, smart, aging Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe has been openly hinting at a revolt of Quebec M.P.s, active resistance from the French-Canadian third of the Dominion...
...importance voiced one of Canada's toughest problems. The man: Captain George S. White of the Canadian Army, a member of the usually dozing Conservative opposition. The problem: enlisting in Canada's war the fullhearted cooperation of the agricultural. Catholic, cautious, reactionary, French, Anglo-fearing, politically potent Quebec habitants...
Because in World War I a universal conscription law caused draft riots and talk of Quebec's seceding from the Dominion, Canada's Army for World War II has so far been recruited from volunteers. For all 21-year-olds there has been a compulsory "training period" of 30 days, which the Government last month upped to four months-still not enough to most military minds for adequate training...