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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1938,
THE 'DOUBLE-TENTH'.
create a Fascist State on the Italian model.
They hope to build a Fascist island of three million French- Canadians in a sea of 145 million progressive, democratle-minded North Americans.
English-speaking
Canadians.
divide, roughly, into two groups. There are those who believe this Fascist movement is forc-doom- ed to failure, and who counsel patience and understanding.
And there are others, prob- ably the majority, who condemn Quebec out of hand, who are just as much opposed to Fascism in Quebec as elsewhere and who regard the Duplessis, Govern- ment and all its works as a dis- grace to Canada and to the Bri- tish Commonwealth.
Now the problem of Quebec, if it may so be called, is the out- come of hard times, the growing world conflict of ideologies and the ever-increasing pressure of example upon Quebec from the rest of Canada in the matter of social reform.
DANGER signals
were
apparent in 1933 when the forty-year-old Liberal Ad- ministration was obviously near- ing its end. But not until 1936
For the second year in suc-did Maurice Duplessis, leader of
cession the frightful shadow of
There Is
The
the Union Na- tionule Party, achieve Power. In March, 1937 the Legislature passed "An Act
CANADA
By Grant Dexter
for 15 years a political journalist at Ottawa'
Quebec's motherland--France is execrated as à land of free- thinkers and radicals. Com- munist Deputy Rene Costea was refused the public platform. So was the official delegation presenting the Spanish Govern- ment.
ro-
THE cry of Duplessis. and the Church is that Quebec and the Dominion. Com- aro in dire peril from munism. Yet if you took all the Communists in Quebec, or in. Canada for that matter, and, figuratively, put them in your eye, you wouldn't know it.
Nor is the general picture of Quebec brighter. Women have no vote. They are effectively barred from most of the profes- sions and they lack equal rights of contract after marriage. Old age pensions were wrung from the Quebec Government long after the other provinces had them.
There is no divorce in Quebec.. Low wages are the rule and cot tage industry survives, to some extent, as a means of evading such limitation of working hours.
Fascism Under
British
Flag
and wage re gulations are of recent origin and countenance. rates as low as tenpence Per
War remains over China on an anniversary which should be the occasion of nation-wide rejoicing in commemoration of the revolutionary rising on Oc- tober 10. 1911 at Wuchang, Twenty-seven years ago a bomb which accidentally exploded in Hankow led to the discovery by the police of a revolutionary plot: many arrests were made, and swift-moving developments caused
the Wuhan Committee
Communist
propa- by him of being used to "propa- from distributing, the Bible. hour. to take definite action, although! respecting
gara," popularly known as the gate Communism or Bolshe- Anti-Semitism is rife. Gangs its preparations to that end
vism." To have Padlock Law.
the premises of French-Canadian students There is no compulsory school- were not yet complete. On the
reopened the owner must appear have smashed the windows of ing. Infantile mortality robs night of October 10 an attack! Under this Act, Quebec's At- in court, before a judge, and shops owned by Jews, while the the province of much of the ad-
made
vantage of a high birth rate. the Viceroy's torney-General may, without
prove his innocence. There is police looked on approvingly. yamen, but he and the garrison warrant from a judge, padlock no appeal from the decision of There is ardent sympathy Mortality in the province is 92 commander had already fled to any house or building suspected the judge. Nor is there any with Franco Spain as there was por 1,000 live births and in some statutory definition of Com with the Italan conquest of of the cities the rate exceede Shanghai, and before daylight |
munism or Bolshevism.
Abyssinia. The Catholic Church the city of Wuchung was in the proceeded to "settle" matters in
Morcover, the police, without of Quebec must not be confused
was
on
ject in waging war was to
200.
Chater Road. hands of the revolutionaries, its own way. Subsequently the warrant, may search any pre- with the Catholic Church in the One could go on indefinitely, while by October 12 Hankow world was told that Japan's ob- mises en suspicion of the print- English - speaking provinces. but after all you cannot indict a and Hanyang had fallen. The
establish peace in the Far Easting or distribution of litera- There is little difference in out-people, and there is another side fire of revolution spread rapidly to liberate the Chinese people ture "propagating or tending to look on foreign affairs between
English-speaking Canadian Ca-to this picture. The French- throughout China, culminating from an oppressive Government, propagate Communism."
The police may
and their British Canadian is of Norman descent, in the election on December 29, and to prevent the Republic.
scize and tholics 1911, of Dr. Sun Yat-sen as passing into the control of Com destroy such literature; the brethren, but a world of differ-of the breed which crossed the Provisional President of the munists. Japan, it has been statute.makes them judge, jury ence between either of them and Channel with William I. Indi- vidualism and love of freedom repeatedly declared, has по
and executioner. No appeal to the Church in Quebec. Republic.
quarrel with the Chinese people, the courts in such cases is per-
Fascism is being sedulously are rooted in his nature. On Since the last observance of but is determined to crush the mitted.
aped. Efforts are being made other occasions, notably in 1896, the "Double Tenth" China has National Government and the Censorship is widely practised, to form "corporative" bodies he has, in the final choice, re- passed through an ordeal which Kue-Min-Tang, and assist in the Films like "The Life of Emile within the organisation of the jected political domination by has brought bitter suffering to establishment of a new Ad- Zolu" have been banned. News- Church, of employers, workers the Church. He is just as ministration which will "co-paper offices have been padlock- and professional people. The millions of her people, destruc- operate" with Japan. Suggesed, book stores closed, homes objective is the substitution of a thoroughly bred in British insti- tion to many of her largest tions that the campaign is raided. The Baptist Mission at chamber of corporations for the tutions of self-government cities and devastation to vast really aimed at extending the Grand Ligne has been restrained Legislature. arcas of farmland. Fifteen frontiers. of the Japanese Em- months of fighting has resulted pire are indignantly repudiated; are given to the
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soldiers, and the death and in- be fully respected and safe- jury of scores of thousands of guarded. non-combatanis. 1938 finds China still steadfast
October 10,
It is not easy to be optimistic in the present deplorable state
ly resolved to continue resis of international relations, but so far as Sino-Japanese relations
tance
to the
peace
brutal force in particular are concerned, it directed against her. The is possible for China to be hope, mighty Japanese military ma- ful even on October 10, 1938. ching slowly advances, crushing Large areas of her territory are nil who oppose its progress, and in enemy occupation, but the at the moment of writing a tre- evidence shows that the mendous struggle is going on Japanese troops are constantly
harassed by around the very spot where,
large guerilla forces, well-organised and twenty-seven years ago, the equipped. There is no people of China struck the deck in the "pacified" arena, nor alve blow which-after ten will there be while, men are previous failures -- brought able to drill and arm themselvea about the fall of the Manchu to carry. on guerilla warfare and the grim facts of the situ dynasty.
tion are beginning to dawn on There has been no formal the people of Japan, in spite of declaration of war by Japan; the severe censorship and mani- her troops invaded North China pulation of all news from China. in July, 1937 with the object of
There are many factors which forcing a "local settlement" of are encouraging to the Chinese an incident which the National people. The "Double Tenth": Government insisted was a mat- shows no weakening in tho ter for diplomatic adjustment nation's morale, appalling through the usual channels. The though its sacrifices have been. Japanese Army had different Let us hope that the next ideas and, confident that China anniversary can be observed in would once again give way un- circumstances happler for China der a sufficient show of force, and the civilised world.
Cebu tudtad Produro Krathaka. Kan.
This English-speaking com-
patriota.
There has been a gradual awakening in Quebec over tho
By Lichty past fifty years, and particular-
"Good bye, son—and DON'T write every week. Try and make your
allowance fast longer than that!""
ly since the onset of the depres- sion in 1929. Quebec has been showing an increased awareness of what is going on outside the boundaries of the province.
It is
understandable
that the Church in Quebec, which shares Roma's active dislike of democracy, seize this opportunity and en- deavour to hold at bay the Liberal forces which are in full play elsewhere on the continent.
It is unfortunate; but under- standable that the ruling class in Quebec, both French, and
English-speaking, should operate. To this end, Com- munism, no doubt, is a con- venient bogey.
Co-
But that the Fascist move- ment ultimately will fail, even though it may grow in strength for a year or two, can be re- garded as certain. For it is a thousand times easier for the Hollanders to hold back the sea than for French isolated though it is by language, Canada, to wall-off the flood of ideas con stantly beating in upon it.