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"Fifty thousand
Canadian soldiers under the sod in Europe is the price Canada has paid for
the European statesmanship which drenched the continent in
blood."
Newton W. Rowell, 8 December 1920
"May I be permitted to add that in this
Association of Mutual Insurance against fire, the risks assumed by the
different States are not equal? We live in a fire-proof house, far from
inflammable materials. A vast ocean separates us from
Europe."
Raoul Dandurand, speech, 2 October 1924
"No interest in Ethiopia, of any nature
whatever, is worth the life a single Canadian citizen. No consideration
could justify participation in such a
war."
Ernest Lapointe, 1935
"We do not believe that isolation from
interest in world affairs is possible for Canada. No happening of any
magnitude abroad [Italio-Ethiopian conflict] is without its repercussions
on our fortunes and our
future."
W. L. Mackenzie King, 18 June 1936
Rt. Hon. W.L. Mackenzie King visiting Berlin. LAC
PA-119013, [King was impressed by Adolf Hitler and supported the British
Prime Minister in appeasing Germany.], June 1937
"Opposition to participation in war, any war,
is growing. It is not believed that Canada itself is in any danger. It is
felt that the burdens left by our participation in the last war are
largely responsible for present financial difficulties. There is outspoken
rejection of the theory that whenever and wherever conflict arises in
Europe, Canada can be expected to send armed forces overseas to help solve
the quarrels of continental countries about which Canadians know little
and which, they feel, know and care less about Canada's difficulties – and
particularly if a powerful country like the United States assumes no
similar
obligation."
W. L. Mackenzie King, 1937
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Rt. Hon. W.L. Mackenzie King. LAC, PA-052569, Kingston, ON, 18
August 1938
"I give you assurance that the people of the
United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is
threatened by any other
Empire."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, address, Kingston, 18 August 1938
"The idea that every twenty years this country
should automatically and as a matter of course take part in a war overseas
for democracy or self-determination of other small nations, that a country
which has all it can do to run itself should feel called upon to save,
periodically, a continent that cannot run itself, and to these ends risk
the lives of its people, risk bankruptcy and political disunion, seems to
many a nightmare and sheer
madness."
W. L. M. King, March 1939
His Majesty King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
visiting Quebec. LAC, C-036289, Québec, Québec, 1939
King George VI delivering a radio broadcast to the
Empire on Empire Day. Le roi George VI diffusant un message aux sujets de
l'Empire britannique le jour de l'Empire. LAC, PA-122957 National Film
Board 24 May 1939
Professor Mamlock, a film telling the
story of brave men and women who battle Nazi barbarism. Russian dialogue,
English subtitles. LAC, Acc. No. R738-119 Sydney Newman 1939
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