Canada: THE SERVICES: The Power That Endures

At the opening of the new National Defense College at Kingston, Ont. last week, Defense Minister Brooke Claxton said:

“. . . Any war involving Canada would be a world war and a total war. In such a war we must be prepared to make the best use of our natural resources for our national defense; and defense services involve much more than training in the use of arms. . . .

“The real power that endures and wins is a tight and undivided combination of the industrial and military, the scientific and the strategic, finance and trained manpower, the laboratory and the parade ground, the railway yards and the reinforcement camp, the sheltered man of ideas and the rugged man of arms. . . .

“The National Defense College is … an embodiment of the unity of modern self-defense; it is not military alone, not civilian; it is citizen defense.”