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Without noticeable enthusiasm, Mackenzie King informed a nervous House of Commons of a new Order Paper. It contained the only answer he could find at present to a racial and religious problem which Canadians of good will had always hoped that time-not civil strife-would solve. The answer: an amendment to the National Resources Mobilization Act which struck out Section 3 and thus empowered the Government to send Canadian conscripts anywhere in the world...
...question now becomes. "What forces are restraining the direct expression of this hostility toward the Axis and diverting it into hostility against the British, against our racial minorities and against our allies?" There are two main explanations: The first force is that during the past twenty years there has been pacifistic philosophy abroad in America which would rule aggression out of human nature, precisely as the Victorians sought to rule...
...Isamu] Sammy Horino* who takes care of my garden. Sammy and I have had many conversations about Japanese-American relations before Dec. 7 and after. Of his patriotism I have no doubt. He is not a suave diplomat, smilingly betraying, nor is he a stiff-faced Shintoist bowing to racial superstitions. He is Sammy Horino, American-born, conditioned by the world we all know, with its faults and virtues. He might harbor the resentments mentioned, but it does not keep him from being a friendly, cooperative person. He hopes, as we all do, for a better world in the future...
French Canadians' objections to being drafted are variously based on racial and religious antagonisms, a sense of economic underprivilege and an ingrained isolationism. The attitude of many, however, is expressed by a story that was going the rounds in Montreal last week...
Elderly (119 years) but lively Zion's Herald, No. 2 Methodist weekly, waxed hot last week over racial discrimination in the Methodist Church. "Our sin against the Negro lies as a log across the path of Methodist progress," editorialized the Herald. "In these days of war, with discrimination against the Negro becoming a nationwide scandal, we are tongue-tied. . . . What is the church going to do about real brotherhood...