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TORONTO (JTA)—Shock
waves are still reverberating over
Canada in the wake of a book
published in Toronto a little over
five months ago. The book, “None
Is Too Many” (Lester, Orpen and
Denys), by historians Irving
Abella and Harold Troper, both
residents of Toronto, reveals that
before and during World War II
the Canadian government pursued
a policy of actively excluding Jews
from entry into the country.
This revelation, the result of
monumental archival excavations
conducted by the two researchers
in Ottawa, has come as a surprise
to most Canadian Jews. While
there was a perception that the
Canadian government between
1933 and 1948 was reluctant to
facilitate Jewish immigration to
Canada, no one before Abella and
Troper ever realized the scope and
intensity of Canada's anti-Jewish
bias.
Abella and Troper indicate in
their book that one man, Charles
Blair, was the major executor of
Canada's exclusionary immigration
policies toward Jews. As a deputy
minister for immigration,
assigned, for obscure bureaucratic
reasons, to the Department of
Mines and Technical Surveys, Blair
had the responsibility to discharge
the policies of the government of
Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
Blair discharged them with a
cruel zeal Author^ Abella and
Troper show in their devastating
indictment that Blair was an
unrepentant anti-Semite who was
so secure in his position that he left
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behind ample documentation
filled with scurrilous anti-Semitic
remarks. At one point during the
early years of the war, Blair
described Jews trying to get into
Canada as “pigs, at the feeding
trough."
While Blair was the main
instrument in blocking Jewish
immigration into Canada he was
not, according to Abella and
Troper, acting unilaterally. In fact,
he was expressing the views of the
Cabinet and the Canadian people,
especially the inhabitants of
Quebec, Canada’s French-
speaking province.
During the I930s more than
100,000 signatures were collected
on a petition organized by a
French-Canadian group to protest
the prospective immigration of
European Jews. Newspapers in the
province of Quebec published
flagrantly anti-Semitic articles.
In their meticulous research into
the period, Abella and Troper have
unearthed details about certain
Canadian political figures who
later rose to great prominence in
Canada. The information does not
reflect well upon them.
Vincent Massey (brother of
movie great Raymond Massey),
lionized by the Canadian Jewish
Congress in the 1950s as “a
righteous gentile,” emerges in the
Abella-Troper document as an
eminence grise who, during his
days in London, England (as an
official Canadian diplomat), sent
cables to Prune Minister King
aspersing the quality of European
Jews in language of an unsavory
tone, and suggesting that Sudenten
Germans would make much better
immigrants Tor Aryan Canada.
Charlotte Whiton, now
deceased bin once the most
flamboyant ;and feisty mayor of
Ottawa, worked indefatigably in
the early 1940s to prevent the
rescue of Jewish children from the
European cauldron. Her interests
were devoted exclusively to saving
British children.
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Lester Pearson (later to become
prime minister), the winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1956 for his
role in the creation of the United
Nations Emergency Force, is
portrayed as an ambitious
politician who was ready to go
along with Mackenzie King's anti-
Jewish rulings.
Ernest Lapointe, King’s Quebec
colleague, is depicted in the
Abella-Troper volume as the
representative of Quebec’s fiercely
anti-Jewish public opinion. He
warned the Canadian prime
minister that the entry of Jews
would alienate Quebecers, the
major supporters of the Liberal
Party. King accepted Lapointe's
warning.
The Abella-Troper volume,
written deliberately in a flat prose
style without a suggestion of
hysteria, has been widely praised
by Canadian critics. The torment
of European Jews so amply
described by the authors has
produced a wave of mea culpas
among book reviewers all across
Canada. The only exception is a
recent review in The Canadian
Forum in which the reviewer
suggests in an unbelievable
non sequitur that Canadian soldiers
died fighting to save European
Jewry.
Abella indicates that his
research has already produced
three results. Ron Atkey, minister
of immigration in the short-lived
Joe Clark government, said, after
being exposed to Abella's
revelation, that he did not want to
go down in history as “the Charles
Blair of the 80s” during discussions
about the admittance of
Vietnamese “boat people."
Canada’s current minister of
immigration, Lloyd Axworthy, said
in a meeting where Abella had
spoken that he wished to
apologize for the conduct of his
government during the war years.
In addition, the Canadian
government, as a result of the
Abella-Troper book, has removed
a sentence in its advertising
brochure which boasted about
Canada's role in rescuing
European Jews during the war.
. The Abella-Troper volume is
now* into its fourth edition, an
unprecedented development for
Canadian books, and an unusual
one for such a scholarly volume.
Randy Gottlieb
invites bis friends
to stiop at
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