Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mutual defense. Its argument: the U. S. could make such a treaty without U. S. involvement in World War II; staff talks could be started; a North Atlantic base be secured. There was no question that if Britain fell Canada would present a big defense problem-not only around Quebec that was the key to the North in the days of Wolfe, but northward through the sparsely inhabited, partly explored regions of the Northwest Territories, through Arctic tundra, through forests of spruce, balsam, white pine as wild as was the American frontier, along vast Canadian rivers like the Mackenzie, navigable...
...Ottawa Government: in January 1939 he criticized the Federal Government's minuscule armament effort as "dangerous and leading to war. . . . What enemies have we?" He has no reverence for England: six months before the war, he warned that if England and Italy should ever fight, French-Canadians in Quebec might side with Italy. Nor has he any reverence for authority. When the King and Queen dined with him on their visit to Montreal, he got the conversation started by studying a list of conventions prepared for him, one of which was that he should not open the conversation...
...intimation from the French Embassy last year, Warner Brothers withdrew its Devil's Island from circulation. Paramount's Beau Geste, investigating in the African Foreign Legion another aspect of their Empire which Frenchmen do not like to talk about, was barred by Canada from Francophile Quebec. Last week, as Devil's Island reappeared in the U. S., Beau Geste was advertised in Quebec...
...Jours Heureux, a play to be given soon by L'Alliance Frncaise. And from every corner, from each table, from almost every double-chinned throat came the meticulous machine-gun syllables of France. There was good and bad French, Parisian and Cambridge French, plus a minor torrent of Berlitz, Quebec, Linguaphone, Minneapolis, and Sornbonne French. Ah, thought Vag, just like those immortal days in Paris--he heard a particularly grating bit of Brooklynese patois and corrected himself-or rather those hours at the American Express office. Altogether, he felt sure that La Marseillaise should have been heard faintly...
...expected soon to lose his leadership. In Ontario, where blustery Premier Mitchell Hepburn had precipitated the election by knifing his leader in the back (TIME, Feb. 5), the Liberals won 55 seats against 25 for the Conservatives, and Mitch was so discredited that his retirement seemed also in order. Quebec returned Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe in triumph, defeated all the lieutenants of disgruntled ex-Premier Maurice Duplessis who backed Conservative candidates...