HISC46H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: International Security, The Stunning, Socalled
Document Summary
Chapter 5: if britain and france go down (1939-1945) In december, 1939, canada, britain, and the other dominions joined in the british. Commonwealth air training plan (bcatp: the bcatp, which eventually trained more than 131,000 pilots and aircrew, seemed to offer the prospect that canada"s war could be fought on the home front. No one in 1939 could conceive of the idea that war in the air might produce aircrew casualties to rival those suffered by the army on the ground. In his careful (balanced view), abandoning any effort to increase canadian autonomy was in the interest of the greater good: quebec"s continued acceptance of war. For english-canadian consumption, and because he was firmly behind britain, the prime minister"s first collection of wartime speeches appeared under the grandiloquent title. American sensibilities and as much as possible to influence the united states in britain"s direction.
