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Politics by All. Congress undoubtedly had secret fears that Britain's offer of post-war separation to provinces which voted to secede might lead to Hindu-Moslem strife. The Moslem League objected to Britain's principle that such voting would be by existing provinces (whose boundaries are not according to Moslem majorities). Rumor claimed that some Congress members, instead of wanting more war responsibility, wanted to avoid such headaches. Undoubtedly they wanted to avoid the headaches of such partial responsibility as Britain offered...
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...
...League won only 104 of the 480 seats reserved for Moslems in the eleven Provincial Assemblies; of 7,000,000 Moslem voters, only 300,000 voted the League ticket. Jinnah's importance is that he epitomizes the Moslems' fear of the Hindus?and this religious civil strife is the chief obstacle to Sir Stafford's mission...
Since many of the defendants were officials in the aggressive and militant Local 544 of the Teamsters' Union, which last June climaxed a running scrap with the AF of L by breaking away to join the CIO, the Minneapolis convictions can also be confused with the problem of labor strife. Thirdly, to allow the matter of attitude towards the war to bear any weight here is a great mistake. The trial was brought forward in November, when the America First, Committee was as vigorous in its anti-war stand as was Local...
...astonishing thing about Western culture is that it has developed in the midst of internal and external strife. England was living dangerously when Shakespeare was composing his sonnets and writing his plays; the tumult of battle runs through much of his work. While Louis XIV ruined France financially in his desperate bid for glory on the battlefield, Moliere wrote his brilliant social comedies. These and other great playwrights through the ages wrote on the problems of their times, but they saw further than the playwrights of today. Shakespeare put his themes on the level of universality, not basing them...