WAR POLICY
main election issue IN CANADA PRESERVATION of national UNITY. PRIME MINISTER'S WARNING. Ry Telegraph—Press Associat ion—Copyrigh OTTAWA. February 8. The Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, opening the general election campaign with a broadcast address, declared Ilia! ibe real issues were the maintenance of national unity and lhe Government's war policy.
He issued a warning against vague suggestions for a National Government and urged electors to demand foreknowledge of the personnel of any new Admiministration. .On the people's decision depended not only Canada's contribution lo die war but also lhe maintenance of her integrity and unity as a nation. That unity had not come from committing Canada to war before Parliament had decided or from pledges to extend Parliament's life in war time without reference to the people, or from a so-called National Government that might enforce conscription or disfranchise many classes of Canadians. Parliament indefinitely extended could easily become a dictatorship, ho said. I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1940, Page 5
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