Canada's Dominion-wide election on June 11 was important to more than Canadians. Canada would be the first major belligerent to pass judgement on a victorious war government. The effects of the election might be felt in the British general election of July 5.* Canada would be the first important Allied power to answer: after war, what?
Would there be a swing to the right, as there was in the U.S. after World War I? If so, the Progressive Conservative Party of ex-farmer John Bracken would win. This party stands for untrammeled free enterprise,...
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