As harried British troops scurried back across the Channel last week, leaving the Nazis in sight of the chalk cliffs of Dover, Britons all over the far-flung Empire looked anxiously to their arms. No exceptions, Canadians from the Yukon to the St. Lawrence eyed their slow-moving war-expansion program askance, clamored vociferously for action, still more action.
In response, once more Canadian armament was given a slap in the rump. After a four-hour meeting with the War Committee, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King announced in Parliament that "sweeping measures" would be taken....