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	The Conscription Crisis of 1917
		The antecedents of this crisis could be found as far back as the Boer War (1899-1902) and the creation of a Canadian navy (1908) when the issue of Canadian participation in Imperial wars arose.
		The country emerged deeply divided by this crisis, and the Conservative Party lost its influence in Quebec and in the West.
		In Canada, conscription was established by vote in the House of Commons.
	www.histori.ca /peace/page.do?pageID=278 (911 words)

	Conscription
		For PM Sir Robert BORDEN, the first necessity was to assist the men in the trenches, and by May 1917, when he returned to Canada from the Imperial War Conference in London and from visits to the trenches, he had decided that compulsory service was necessary.
		Québec would never agree to conscription, he believed, and if he joined the pro-conscription coalition French Canada would be delivered into the hands of Henri BOURASSA and his nationalistes.
		As a military measure conscription was a failure; as a political measure it had largely been responsible for the re-election of the Borden government, but it left the Conservative Party with a heavy liability in Québec and in the agricultural West.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001859 (693 words)

	Conscription - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		Conscription by definition is the use of involuntary labor demanded by some established authority; with respect to the history of the Canadian Army it refers to government policies requiring male citizens to serve in the armed forces.
		Conscription was a major political issue in Canada in the First World War and Second World War, and was considered during the Korean War.
		The first instance of this need for replacement soldiers came by early 1917; after the Battle of the Somme in the last half of the previous year, casualties in the field were outstripping recruiting - new enlistees numbered about 4,000 a month in the spring of 1917.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Conscription (1113 words)

	Conscription Crisis of 1944 Summary
		The Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War II.
		It was similar to the Conscription Crisis of 1917, but was not as politically damaging.
		However, many Canadians still did not support immediate conscription; there were a few riots in Montreal, although these were not on the same scale as the 1917 and 1918 riots.
	www.bookrags.com /Conscription_Crisis_of_1944 (2654 words)

	Conscription - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Conscription, system of compulsory enrollment of men and women into the armed forces.
		Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, but it is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require (very often, male only...
		The Conscription Crisis of 1917 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I. Background At the outbreak of war in 1914, over 30,000 volunteers joined the army, far more than...
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	Canada's Use of Conscription in World War 1
		It is true “La crise de la conscription” heightened tensions during the first world war, but it would be hard to prove the act had any permanent negative effects on relations; rather, it was just one of many issues that divide the country.
		The precedence set by the use of conscription in both World Wars is something for Canadians to be aware of, given the current state of world affairs, and in the event of future conflicts.
		It is ironic that, in the end, conscription of Canadian soldiers had little impact on the outcome of the war.
	www.geocities.com /cdives/conscription.html (2251 words)

	partidohot » Blog Archive » Conscription
		What other positive and negative Conscription caused real hardships for the Selective Service Act of 2001, a species Here conscription is analyzed by Mises as one solid excuse for the universal abolition of conscription were adopted by the event, the Confederate debt was reintroduced in 1916.
		Although Iraq is where the conscripts are being prepared for the tearaways we have been getting accustomed to this would oppose conscription must face the war two.
		Is there again but also known as justification for conscription, compulsory enrollment of a standard source for males is further regulated by giving them self discipline, a sense of camraderie,.
	partidohot.com /2007/01/24/conscription (163 words)

	Conscription for Wartime Service
		The crisis came in 1917, when Prime Minister Borden was summoned to London, England to participate in the Imperial War Conference.
		When his own minister of defence, Colonel J.L. Ralston, also demanded conscription, King, the able politician, decided to have a national plebescite asking the people of Canada to release the government from its promise not to invoke conscription for overseas service.
		The issue of conscription was fiercely debated leading to the plebescite on 27 April.
	www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/debates/conscription.html (787 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Conscription Crisis of 1917
		The Conscription Crisis of 1917 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I.
		On July 6, 1917 the Act was passed, allowing Borden to conscript men across the country if he felt that it was necessary.
		To solidify support for conscription in the 1917 election, Borden extended the vote through Military Voters Act to overseas soldiers, who were in favour of conscription to replace their depleted forces (women serving as nurses were also given the right to vote).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1917 (1226 words)

	Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
		The result is ever increasing government power which endures long after each crisis has passed, impinging on both civil and economic liberties and fostering extensive corporate welfare and pork.
		Crisis and Leviathan is a blockbuster of a book, one of the most important of the last decade.
		After each crisis, the amount of power recently added to government’s stock might shrink somewhat, but very seldom back to what it was prior to the crisis.
	www.independent.org /store/book_detail.asp?bookID=15 (908 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Martial law - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This act was invoked three times, in both world wars due to riots over conscription (the Conscription Crisis of 1917 and Conscription Crisis of 1944) and in the October Crisis of 1970.
		In case of an environmental crisis, the Indian government declares states of emergency, in which the emergency relief forces of the Indian Armed Forces, the National Guard, and the police come under the strict control of the President of India.
		To date, these powers have never been used but with the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, 2006 U.S. immigration reform protests and the possibility of avian flu spreading globally, concerns have been raised that these powers could be employed or a de facto drift into their deployment could occur.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Martial_law (3073 words)

	Conscription: Men
		The atrocities inflicted on Nationalist conscript troops in the Republic of China, during the wars of the 1930s and 1940s against both the Japanese and Communist Chinese forces, constitute a little-known instance of conscription-as-gendercide.
		Thousands of conscripts died.8 By 1996, conscription was so unpopular that, as part of a desperate effort to boost his ratings during the election campaign, then-President Boris Yeltsin promised to abolish it after he was reelected.
		To avoid conscription, white South African men were achieving a level of education way beyond their needs or their means, or flocking to the UK and Holland to apply for refugee status.
	www.lycos.com /info/conscription--men.html?page=4 (501 words)

	WWI - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		However, in March 1917, (February in the pre-revolutionary Russian calendar), the Czar was overthrown in the February Revolution and the Russian Caucasus Army began to fall apart.
		In March 1917, demonstrations in St Petersburg culminated in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the appointment of a weak Provisional Government.
		Events of 1917 proved decisive in ending the war, although their effects were not fully felt until 1918.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=WWI (6283 words)

	Military History: First World War: Homefront, 1917
		By 1917, the failure of voluntary recruitment in Canada to sustain a 500,000-man army was contributing to an atmosphere of national crisis, but not of despair.
		The introduction of conscription in 1917 would provoke the greatest political crisis of the period.
		When the government realized that farmers also opposed conscription (because they argued that they were supporting the war effort by supplying food), the Union government granted exemptions from conscription to farmers' sons, just two weeks before the election.
	www.lermuseum.org /ler/mh/wwi/homefront1917.html (785 words)

	Conscription infoTurkish.com Herşey Hakkında Türkçe Bilgi
		Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, e.g, Old Testament commentaries use the term to describe the levies of labor used to build the Temple, but it is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require citizens to serve in their armed forces.
		Conscription is regularly postponed for students until the end of their studies, as long as they apply before they turn 28 years of age.
		Some Egyptians evade conscription and travel overseas until they reach the age of 30, at which point they are tried, pay a $580 fine (as of 2004), and are dishonorably relieved of their obligation to serve in the army.
	www.infoturkish.com /Turkey/Conscription.html (13121 words)

	Conscription = Communism by William Norman Grigg
		Observes Thomas Fleming in his invaluable book Illusion of Victory: "These words were an uplifting way of saying conscription, a draft." Significantly, Wilson’s words were also a close paraphrase of a line from the eighth plank of the Communist Manifesto dictating an "equal liability of all to labor" in tasks ordained by the state.
		Similarly, we must understand that conscription indisputably rests on the assumption that each individual is the State’s property, to be sacrificed when those controlling the State deem it necessary for their protection.
		Just as it happened almost a century ago, the drive to re-institute conscription — which is to say, War Communism — is shielded by a curtain of blasé assurances from the political class, and pseudo-populist rhetoric from George Creel’s contemporary disciples.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig5/grigg-w5.html (2629 words)

	conscription - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Selective Service, term used in the United States, popularly called the draft, to designate the systems of military conscription established by...
		Conscription : conscription in particular countries : Israel: Israeli Conscripts in Training
		Pin back buttons supporting 1 side or the other in the 1916 conscription referendum.
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	Conscription crisis
		From the point of view of military officials, the "crisis" is one of supply; where they may claim to lack enough "troops" to accomplish a military objective, and have, to some degree, "lost control" of their political ability to enforce existing conscription law.
		During 1917 and 1918, Britain tried to impose a conscription on Ireland, leading to a conscription crisis and to an increased support for Sinn Féin.
		The Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War II.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/co/conscription_crisis.html (276 words)

	Conscription Crisis of 1917 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Conscription Crisis of 1917 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I.
		After visiting Britain for a meeting of First Ministers in May of 1917, and talking with Canadian soldiers recuperating in British hospitals, Borden announced that he would be introducing conscription.
		To solidify support for conscription in the 1917 election, Borden extended the vote to overseas soldiers, who were in favour of conscription to replace their depleted forces.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Conscription_crisis_of_1917 (1162 words)

	Conscription at AllExperts
		Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, but it is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require (very often, male only) citizens to serve in their armed forces.
		Conscription is enshrined in article 55 of the constitution, which states: "It is a sacred duty of every citizen of the People's Republic of China to defend his or her motherland and resist invasion.
		Conscription is seen also signaling inequality; as men are required to risk their life and limb without any compensation while women aren't, it can be viewed as a signal the society values far more the lives of women than those of men, and men are just expendables.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/co/conscription.htm (10821 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Society : Issues : Government Operations : Conscription
		Conscription is the involuntary requirement of a government that certain of its citizens serve in the armed forces.
		Conscription is regularly postponed for students until the end of their studies, as long as they apply before they turn 28 years of age.
		Conscripts often face brutal hazing and bullying upon their enterance into the military known as dedovschina, some dying as a result.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Society-Issues/Government_Operations-Conscription.shtml (7912 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Conscription certainly imposes on the freedom of the individual and although some conscripts feel that they benefited from the experience others feel that their time could have been spent more productively pursuing their chosen studies or career paths.
		Conscription may inspire camaraderie, unifying a people: all able-bodied males together as a union have had the same experience and are soldiers, and that may create unity and team spirit within a nation.
		Conscription even ends up mirroring many of the infamous traits of chattel slavery in the American South; one's life is in the hands of those giving orders, to be sacrificed at will, one can be severely punished, even imprisoned, beaten, or killed, for trying to escape.
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	More on Crisis
		In this context, a crisis can be loosely defined as a situation where there is a perception of threat, heightened anxiety, expectation of possible violence and the belief that any actions will have far-reaching consequences (Lebow, 7-10).
		Crisis usually has a longer lifespan as compared to Disaster because the birth of Crisis arises is from one or more unattended or uncontrolled or mismanaged Disasters.
		One factor might trigger a disaster (‘an emergency event’), where as a crisis usually needs one or more factor(s) that were either mismanaged, unattended or unresolved in the initial stages as disasters and as a result those disaster(s) converges to form a crisis, hence the term Crisis Management.
	www.psyhist.com /crisis.htm (572 words)

	World War I - WarWiki
		But, in March of 1917 (February in the pre-revolutionary Russian calendar), the Czar was overthrown in the February Revolution and the Russian army began to slowly fall apart.
		Events of 1917 would prove decisive in ending the war, although their effects would not be fully felt until 1918.
		In response, in February 1917, the German General Staff (OHL) was able to convince Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to declare unrestricted submarine warfare with the goal of starving Britain out of the war.
	war.wikia.com /wiki/World_War_I (7006 words)

	BT Research - WWI (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But, in March 1917, (February in the pre-revolutionary Russian calendar), the Czar was overthrown in the February Revolution and the Russian Caucasus Army began to fall apart.
		In March 1917, demonstrations in St Petersburg culminated in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the appointment of a weak Provisional Government.
		Events of 1917 proved decisive in ending the war, although their effects were not fully felt until 1918.
	www.breathittteens.com /research.php?title=WWI (8093 words)

	CBC News - Viewpoint: Larry Zolf
		The slaughter of Canadians in the trenches of the First World War, plus the conscription crisis of 1917 with its rioting and bloodshed in Quebec City, should have taught Canadians the merits of forever shunning major military efforts that bitterly divided the country.
		The 1917 federal election was fought strictly on universal military conscription.
		Conscript every able-bodied man in the country and the Fuhrer would shake and quake in his boots.
	www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20020207.html (1399 words)

	Conscription Crisis
		And yet, although the conscription crisis of that war lingers long in the memory of theQuebecois, it is almost completely forgotten in the rest of Canada.
		In the spring of 1917, Prime Minister Borden visited Canadian soldiers in British hospitals and at the front while attending a meeting of the Imperial War Cabinet in London.
		His French-speaking ministers warned that conscription would "kill them and the party foor 25 years" in Quebec, but he bowed to the pressure and introduced conscription.
	www.macewanpr.ca /eve04/andreab/conscription.htm (190 words)

	World War I
		In the fall of 1917, thanks to the improving situation on the Eastern front, the Austrians received large reinforcements, including German assault troops.
		Events of 1917 would prove decisive in ending the war, although their effects would not be fully felt until 1918.
		By the end of 1917, however, the major armies — now numbering millions of men — had modernized significantly and were making use of such technology as wireless communication, armored cars, tanks, and tactical aircraft.
	solidsnake19148.tripod.com /id60.html (7332 words)

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