Word: vanier
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Blunt and true were the words of aged and revered Brigadier General George P. Vanier, commanding officer of the Fifth (Quebec) Military District...
...irresponsible fanatics in this province who speak with contempt of the British achievements," warned Vanier, "are rendering a dreadful disservice to their compatriots. There is no surer way of drawing on the head of this province the hatred and violence of the other eight [English-speaking provinces]. Such men will bear a terrible responsibility if they succeed in loosing this flood which might engulf...
Without Leadership. What Vanier realized was that French-Canadians, embittered over the conscription issue and distrustful of their national leaders, were being drawn into secret orders and nationalistic groups working for secession, inviting civil war. Dawdling Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King knew about them,* but did not act. The longer the Government dawdled, failing either to crack down on Fascist agitators or come to a showdown on conscription, the wider became the breach between English-and French-speaking Canadians...