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...Labor Party's young rank & file nearly broke the Party's wartime political truce with the Conservatives. For the truce: 1,275,000. Against...
...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 was called while Ottawa played host to United Nations airmen planning integration of the air forces of all free peoples. But this did not mean that the internal Canadian crisis was over. It was merely another indication, like the torpedoings in the St. Lawrence, that those with common interests would...
That most Britons want a second front this year seemed plainer than ever last week. It seemed plainer, too, that they think there is too much crusty caution, inefficiency and politicking in their coalition Government. Thanks to the wartime political truce, Parliamentary party lines have been virtually unchanged since before Munich...
...Much Party. The bitterest fighting was over the political truce which keeps the Conservative, Liberal and Labor Parties from contesting Parliamentary by-elections, hands the seats by default to the party which won them in the last (1935) general election. Snapped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard: "The result is a steady procession of ersatz M.P.s through the portals of Westminster. . . . They would have a valuable function to perform in a Fascist Grand Council where suitable and spontaneous cheers are required to intersperse the leader's broadcasts to the world...
Since the Conservatives are rapidly falling into disfavor, all the advantages of the truce go to the Conservative Party. It therefore enraged Liberals and Laborites when Winston Churchill blandly asserted to Conservative leaders: "The Conservative Party in the end will prove itself the main part of the rock on which the salvation of Britain was founded and the freedom of mankind regained...