To anyone brash enough to accuse corpulent, complacent Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of diddling & dawdling in getting the Dominion on a war footing, he can truthfully crack back that Canada has just fought out on that issue an election which his Government won by a landslide (TIME, April 8). That, however, was before the Nazis crashed through Flanders, crushed France. Last week the hottest issue in the Dominion was again Government war diddling & dawdling. Only wartime censorship averted open scandal. Items:
Materiel. Not a single Army rifle had been made in Canada up to this...