CANADA: Houde for Dictators

The Province of Quebec harbors one of the most antidemocratic, anti-liberal governments in North America. Having passed laws regulating if not prohibiting free speech, a free press and free assembly, the reigning Union Nationale Party has long been friendly to a frankly Fascist movement.

Last week Mayor Camillien Houde of Montreal unloaded some political dynamite on this subject to a Y. M. C. A. audience. "If war comes," he said, "and if Italy is on one side and England on the other, the sympathy of the French-Canadians in Quebec will be on the...

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