Canada Favours Isolation
(Received 10 a.nU % OTTAWA, May 24. During a six-hours’ debate .on foreign affairs in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, defining Canada's policy, declared that Canada was not likely to engage in war on her own account, or to be attacked. She could not be drawn into war by the League of Nations, and would not join the Empire in war except by Parliament's decision. • v - The Opposition leader, Mr R. B. Bennett, contended that Canada, as a member of the British Commonwealth* was automatically at war if the Empire was attacked. The only alternative was separation from the Empire, which wouid not be the choice of Canadians. Mr J. S. Woodsworth, chairman of the National Council of the Co-opera-tive Commonwealth Federation, stated that Canada should act’ to relieve herself from an obligation to- fight any war but a war in defence oJnher own shores.
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Northern Advocate, 27 May 1938, Page 5
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