CONSCRIPTION ISSUE
CANADIAN ELECTION PARTY LEADER'S ASSERTION LONDON, March 6 An allegation that the Government was trying to split Canada for political purposes on the issue of conscription was made by Dr. R. J. Manion, Conservative Party leader, in a broadcast address at the opening of his election campaign in Quebec.
"If I become Priine Minister there will be no conscription put into effect by the Government I lead," he said. He claimed that conscription in Canada in the Great War was a failure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 9
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