A STORM IN CANADA
The Mayor, Mr. Camillien Houde, of Montreal, appeared to be on one side of the fence and all French-Canadian Quebec on the other recently when the Mayor of Canada's largest city declared that the sympathies of FrenchCanadians would be with Italy in the event of a war involving Great Britain. The statement by the Mayor, himself a French-Canadian,. raised a storm of denial from all sections of the province of Quebec. No public man was found who agreed with Houde. Addressing a young men's club, Mr. Houde said: "If war happens, and Italy is on one side and England on the other, the sympathy of the French-Canadians in Quebec will be on the side of the Italians." It was his' opinion that English and FrenchCanadians had different mentalities. But French-Canadian members of Parliament, heads of French-Canadian national organisations, and the Press agreed emphatically that French-Cana-dians, except a small minority, were loyal British subjects and desired to live in harmony with their English compatriots in Canada.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 137, 13 June 1939, Page 9
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169A STORM IN CANADA Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 137, 13 June 1939, Page 9
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