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In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

  
  Conscription
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.
Québec's BLOC POPULAIRE continued to fight against conscription by presenting candidates for the Aug 1944 provincial elections and the June 1945 federal elections.
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  Conscription Crisis of 1944   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
Colonel James Ralston argued in favour of finally introducing conscription, interpreting King's statement on "necessity" to mean the necessity of maintaining an army in the field.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/conscription_crisis_of_1944.html   (1316 words)

  
 Civil War Confederate Conscription
Albert B. Moore, in "Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy," seems to regard the South's great mistake was not in turning to conscription, but in relying at first on volunteers.
The manpower crisis facing the Confederate armies in the spring of 1862 was a result of legislative incompetence, specifically, the Confederate Provisional Congress' foolish re-enlistment law of Dec. 11, 1861.
The flaws of the Southern draft were functions of all conscripted armies and prevailed in the North as well as in Europe: overzealous draft officers; the host of exemptions, widely abused, however well regulated in theory; and the ease with which the richer class of men of military age avoided service.
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 Conscription Crisis of 1917 - Biocrawler
The Conscription Crisis of 1917 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I.
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.
Laurier had opposed conscription from the beginning of the war, and privately felt that if he joined the coalition, Quebec would fall under what he perceived as a dangerous nationalism of Bourassa.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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 impetus for conscription in Canada has always been strongest in time of war, when the need for reinforcements of field force units was high.
www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Conscription   (1113 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 citizens (often just males) to serve in their armed forces.
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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 Conscription Through Detention IN RUSSIA'S ARMED FORCES
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.
In response to the conscription crisis, officials have recently slashed conscription quotas; whereas traditionally about 200,000 people were conscripted during each of the two conscription periods, in the spring of 2002 the quota was set for just over 160,000.
Conscript candidates who are classified in category A and B are considered fit for military service, although category B excludes service in certain types of units.
www.hrw.org /reports/2002/russia/russia1102-01.htm   (3264 words)

  
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An all-party conference was arranged for 18 April in the Mansion House, Dublin, comprising Sinn Féin, the Irish Parliamentary Party and Irish Labour, to consider the conscription crisis.
It was new; it involved the disclosure of private affairs; and it led to a fear that cases might not be fairly and impartially dealt with.
Conscription, therefore, could only have been a matter of time, even if the proportion of single men attested under the Derby Scheme had been sufficient to cover the Prime Minister's pledge.
www.lycos.com /info/conscription--men.html?page=2   (717 words)

  
 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.
In Canada, conscription was established by vote in the House of Commons.
Although 99,561 people were conscripted as a result of the law, only 24,100 soldiers actually fought at the front before the end of the war.
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A conscription crisis is a public dispute about a policy of conscription, or mandatory service in the military.
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.
Although Napoleon lost his empire to the Russian winter, the advantages of conscription were not lost on the other European powers, which followed suit during the late 19th Century as they sparred over colonial prizes in Africa and Asia.
www.lycos.com /info/conscription--draft.html   (487 words)

  
 Britannia's International Relations 1895 - 1999
Faschoda Crisis: French expedition was moving from West to East and GB wants to assure link from the Cape to Cairo.
'35 conscription is reintroduced in Germany and its airforce was equivalent to the RAF.
Conscription is maintained ('47) and GB is developing its own atomic bomb (Labour backbencher were opposing this plans).
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 Conscription Crisis of 1918 (Ireland) Information
The Conscription Crisis of 1918 (Ireland) stemmed from a move by the Government of the United Kingdom to impose conscription in Ireland, and contributed to pivotal events in early 20th century politics in Ireland, galvanising popular support for parties favouring devolution from the United Kingdom.
On the evening of the 18th April (the same day), the Catholic bishops were holding their annual meeting at Maynooth (with a similar agenda, to deliver a "Statement on Conscription") and they met a delegation from the Mansion House Conference.
Sinn Féin association (in the public perception at least) with the 1916 Easter Rising and the anti-conscription movement directly and indirectly led to their landslide victory over (and effective elimination of) the Irish Parliamentary Party, the formation of the first Dáil Éireann and in turn to the outbreak of the Anglo-Irish War in 1919.
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Conscription should be unequivocally condemned by all members of the Coalition forthwith.
Although the 'no' vote to conscription was successful on both occasions, the 'no' wins were narrow ones.
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.
lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/conscription--miscellaneous.html   (287 words)

  
 WWI CONSCRIPTION CRISIS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Those in favor of conscription were the unions in all the provinces except Quebec, the soldiers overseas and the majority of English-speaking Canadians.
Some people thought the conscription was a way to maintain their belief in the soldiers presently fighting and the ones that once fought.
Some felt that the conscription was in a form of democracy; the leaders had an election and the people voted.
www.youthlinks.org /article.do?articleID=1237&sl=e   (755 words)

  
 The NCR archives
Church in Crisis: Bishops proposes registry of accused clergy
Church in Crisis: Father is ‘lion at the gate’ pressing case against priest
Church in Crisis: Statute of limitations to be lifted Jan. 1
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 Questions and Answers About Draft Registration
Military leaders call this a "crisis." Some conservative members of Congress (such as Rep. Steve Buyer) have responded by calling for a resumption of universal conscription.
Until the end of conscription in 1975, we helped hundreds of thousands of young men sort out their options in the face of a draft, especially during the genocidal Vietnam War.
Proponents of the draft call conscription an "emergency response" and claim they're trying to call attention to the "problem." Perhaps the problem is that the military's still recruiting at Cold War levels, training for yesterday's failed wars, and abusing the personnel it does manage to enlist.
www.objector.org /conscription/draft-crisis.html   (847 words)

  
 Conscription Crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
The desperate situation and the British pressure on Canada to increase its commitment of men convinced him to break the promise he had made at the outset of the war not to introduce conscription for overseas military service.
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)

  
 Suchmaschine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is known by various names - for example, the most recent conscription program in the United States was known colloquially as "the draft".
Some conscientious objectors are so for religious reasons - notably, the members of the historic peace churches are pacifist by doctrine, and Jehovah's Witnesses, while not strictly speaking pacifists, refuse to participate in the armed services on the grounds that they believe Christians should be neutral in worldly conflicts.
So long as those malicious tailless apes that are so proud of their technical achievements - the animals that we call men - will build armies and wage wars, the command will always be obliged to place the soldiers between the possible death in the front and the inevitable one in the rear.
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 uebec Conscription Crisis History
A portrait of Armand Lavergne, a Member of Quebec National Assembly, who in 1917 said it was better to hang than to be conscripted.
Juxtaposed is the young Trudeau who campaigned against conscription in World War Two.
The work is meant to question the meaning of patriotism in the context of English and French-Canadian nationalism.
www.thesacredvoicegallery.com /patriote.htm   (155 words)

  
 Love, Sex and War: Cinderella Legions. John Costello
In the aftermath of the national emergency precipitated by the 1938 Czechoslovak crisis, when war clouds were gathering over the Continent, the Government formally recognized their potential contribution by establishing the female volunteers as the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
The Soviet women's contribution to their country's all-out battle for survival was heavily embellished by Stalin's propaganda machine, with the intention of both rallying the Russian people and persuading his British and American allies to open a second front in Europe.
By the end of 1944, the raids became so severe that Hitler was persuaded to authorize a limited conscription of German women to take over entire responsibility for manning the searchlight defence system.
www.heretical.com /costello/02cinder.html   (1894 words)

  
 Topic 3: The Conscription Crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Prime Minister King, fearful of dividing the country and his own government, promises the Quebec population during the provincial elections of 1939, that his government would not impose conscription during the war.
King was under considerable pressure from the military to bring in conscription.
Prime Minister King, mindful of this division, delays using conscription for overseas service until 1944, when 13,000 men were sent to Europe.
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 Conscription   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In June, 1940, he had brought in the National Resources Mobilization Act, giving his Liberal government sweeping powers to control industry and manpower.
When the Conservatives threatened to make an issue out of overseas conscription, King held a national plebiscite to free him from his pledge not to conscript men for overseas service.
He won nearly two-thirds of the votes cast on 27 April, 1942; but, the fact that three-quarters of Quebecers voted against him was ample evidence that conscription was still a sensitive, potentially explosive issue.
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 NFB - Collection - Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis
From the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Mackenzie King tried to avoid conscription, lest civil war break out in Canada.
In spite of delaying tactics, King had to make a decision in the final year of the war.
Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis combines archival footage with excerpts from The King Chronicles, a dramatic film series written and directed by Donald Brittain.
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 Gendercide Watch - News
In addition, the ILO states that both the forced labour involved in military conscription and the use of prison labour are acceptable under the terms of the Convention.
Both of these institutions, of course, target males close to 100 percent of the time (see the Gendercide Watch case-studies of military conscription and incarceration/the death penalty).
It is certainly the case that the Convention seeks to impose significant restrictions on the use of male forced labourers.
www.gendercide.org /news.html   (5272 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "conscription crisis": Key Phrase page
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Chapter 6 The Irish Convention and the conscription crisis, 1917-18 The Irish Convention In the middle of 1917, the British Government proposed a convention of Irishmen with terms...
These fad- ing lines were further blurred when the conscription crisis of 1918 promoted additional anti-British sentiment among the various shades of green in nationalist Ireland.
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 Gendercide Watch: Links
The goal is the total abolition of conscription and other forms of forced service under whatever situation." Also maintains an international anti-conscription mailing list.
The present conscription system is not even useful, if it has ever been, because a conscript army does certainly not respond to today's defense needs; neither can it be useful to society as a whole to exploit the underpaid and mandatory objectors' work, forcing them to delay their careers."
A 1917 speech against conscription by the great American anarchist, jailed and finally exiled for her opposition to conscription policies in World War I. The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
www.gendercide.org /links.html   (5374 words)

  
 Peaceweb: WW I: The conscription crisis / la crise de la conscription
WW I: The conscription crisis / la crise de la conscription
The Canadian parliament debated adopting conscription, and the pro-Empire sentiment in English Canada was strong and in support of conscription.
Dans le Canada anglais, les sentiments impériales étaient fortes, et le public était en faveur de la conscription.
www.quaker.org /peaceweb/cqww1.html   (0 words)

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