Word: ralstons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Compulsion. In isolationist Quebec, "conscription" is a fighting word. In deference to Quebec, Prime Minister King had always insisted that there should be no compulsion on any Canadian to serve outside of Canada. Now he had summoned his Cabinet to hear Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, just back from overseas. The Canadian casualty toll, 61,295 in September, was up more than 10,000 since Aug. 1. Since then, the Canadian infantry in France had suffered fur ther heavy losses. The question before the Cabinet: were there enough reinforcements to support the Canadian Army abroad adequately, or had the time...
Katherine Ralston Goodwin, who freely admits that she is oldest of the Nine (44), is director of WACs in the Army Service Forces. Before she joined the Corps she kept house in Hartford, Conn., tended her flower garden, zipped through murder mysteries and pampered her Siamese cat, "Ink Mink." When she leased her house she put a clause in the contract that the tenants would also have to care for Ink Mink...
...Minister Ralston had been baited, by a purely political maneuver, into restating Canada's compromising manpower policy. The Parliamentary Opposition had demanded that Canada's 73,000 "zombies"-home defense conscripts-be made available as overseas reinforcements or released for war jobs. Minister Ralston flatly rejected both suggestions...
Soldier's Defense. Ex-Soldier Ralston offered a soldier's defense of the voluntary system. His defense: 1) 35,000 of the zombies were on operational duties, from Prince Rupert to Jamaica; 2) "where we have an army overseas which is 100% volunteer, it will be a better army if we keep it that way"; 3) the soldiers themselves want it that...
Concluded Minister Ralston: "I know that other countries have drafted armies. That is true of the United States, of Britain and of New Zealand, and I know the magnificent way they have fought. . . . For better or for worse, that was not our system...