CANADA SUSPENDS CONSCRIPTION
Sir Your article on the above subject ’makes interesting reading. Mr Mackenzie King has shown himself to be a man oT democratic principles who in a Dominion with six times th gr rr—' B S itwSlM to ffi y tiS evS though eight out of nine provinces favoured co nscnption he refused to introduce it until it was forced upon him. t Apart n iX nolitical considerations, he no doub realised that in a great wheat-produc-[ng country such as Canada it was not in the best interests of the war efforf to force everybody into a uniform to the of everything else Mr Mackenzie King is a gmit statesman, and it is a pity there are not a lew more like him.-Yours^ete.,^^ May 14, 1945.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24567, 16 May 1945, Page 8
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