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...Dominion-wide Gallup poll this week revealed that 80% of all Canadians think that Japs who are not citizens should be deported to Japan. On the other hand, 59% think naturalized or Canadian-born Japs should be allowed to stay...
British voters have handed the Churchill Government's Coalition candidates rough treatment in recent by-elections. This has led some Americans to a belief that a majority of Britons want a general election now. Last week the Gallup poll...
Canada has no single composite character like the U.S.'s "John Q. Public." The Dominion's "average man" is really two men: English-speaking "Jack" and French-speaking "Jacques." Last week a summary of all Canadian Gallup Polls taken up to Aug. 16, 1943 (since Dec. 2, 1941) compared Jack's thinking on major issues to Jacques'.* Result was probably the clearest short delineation of Canada's dual character yet published. Sample comparisons...
...Gallup polls indicate that Coldwell's strength is much greater than his party's showing in the House (eleven members); the strength of the party in provincial elections confirms it. Commons hears C.C.F. Leader Coldwell's sharp criticism of the old order uneasily, but hears him to the end, because the members know that his are the points they must eventually answer to the voters...
...Parliament he has painstakingly and in great detail laid down the wartime record of his Government. But in the chamber which he has so often used as a sounding board, he has not yet stated a national issue to offset the declining popularity of his Government. As the Gallup polls show, his administration, like all other wartime governments, now suffers the usual political reaction to regimentation and control...