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Morikawa had chummed with Occidentals in school days, but as they grew older "the creek between us grew wider." He was moved from his small fruit farm in British Columbia in 1942, corralled with other Japs in Winnipeg's old Immigration Hall. There they waited two weeks "like cattle at an auction" as farmers looked them over for work on sugar-beet farms. He farmed for 18 months, then got a job as a tinsmith. He sums up his life in Canada: "They tell us we don't assimilate. When we make friends with Occidentals...
Others, who want to stay in Canada, fear they will never be welcome again. Mrs. K. Matsuda, 35, born in the Dominion, is married to a Jap national. She has been resettled in Winnipeg with her two children, Takumi, 3, and Atsushi, 6. Sadly she says: "People say things that hurt your feelings. They tell me we don't believe in God. If we did, the Japs couldn't . . . [commit atrocities] to Canadian men." Said she last week: "I don't know what they will do with...
...journalists in their own home towns, and many are top editors on leading newspapers. In Montreal, for instance, TIME's man is Glenn Gilbert, managing editor of the Standard. Henri Poulin also guides us in handling puzzling French Canadian affairs in Quebec Province. TIME's man in Winnipeg is Nathan Zimmerman of the Tribune. Bill Stovel represents us in Regina, where his special job these past months has been to keep you posted on the socialist CCFers...
...Army took another step in retreat from Canada's subArctic. To Winnipeg from Churchill, Manitoba's port on Hudson Bay, chugged a trainload of some 200 Army engineers, quartermasters, signal men and maintenance men. They had been holed up in dreary, chilly U.S. outposts in the far north for so long (some of them for two years) that they could be forgiven for chalking on the sides of their U.S. Pullmans: "Back To God's Country...
...Winnipeg's willowy, blond Lenore Johannesson, 17, had been chosen as the "typical" Canadian girl, and her specifications were published for all to read. The details: hips, 36 in., bust 36, waist 26, calf 14, ankle 8½. She is 5 ft. 8½ in. tall, weighs...