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Forced by the threat of three of its own Ministers to resign from the Cabinet (Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, Lord Privy Seal Clement Attlee), Labor cooled off. The wealth conscription amendment was rejected...
Harvard is fertile ground for a reproduction in miniature of the chaos into which Greater Boston was thrown by the air raid scare of several days ago. And while the present tendency persists to laugh off the threat of enemy raids on the Atlantic coast as alarmist melodramatics, Harvard will remain vulnerable. It should be obvious that when even the experts cannot agree on the plausibility of such raids, the gamble is not worth taking...
Last such All-team to appear in the nation's presses, the AP awarded six other Harlowmen with honorable mention: Loren MacKinney, triple threat end, both tackles, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller, center Johnny Page, and backs Don McNicol and Captain Franny...
...spoke out for a declaration of war and strong support to Britain, rabidly anti-British groups in Quebec called him "Judas Lapointe." Tory imperialists claimed that he and Mackenzie King purposely slowed up the war effort. But when the chips were down in 1940, Ernest Lapointe's threat to resign if Quebec did not back the Government's war policy did more than anything else to drive the antiwar Nationale (Lapointe called it Nazionale) Party of Maurice Duplessis out of office...
Ames echoed the feelings of the other men when he maintained that the greatest threat to individual freedom came not from the federal government, but from private interest. The best hope for a good and effective government, said he, was through pressure groups "of individuals" acting for themselves...