CANADA: Kingfish Weasels

Sitting in the darkened projection room of the Ontario Censor Board last week, Provincial Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn watched a new MARCH OF TIME film release, "Canada at War." Mitch had precipitated a Dominion general election by telling Canada and the world at large that Canada's war effort as organized by the Mackenzie King Government was a fizzle.

But across the screen marched battalions of snappy, young soldiers in new khaki uniforms with new Lee-Enfield rifles.

Training schools of the Royal Canadian Air Force hummed with activity. Here was a nation depicted as it went to war in a big way....

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