Shame! Shame!

Mrs. Dorothy Steeves is a member of British Columbia's Provincial Legislature. One day last week she went to bat. She never got to first base, for before she uttered a word, she had four strikes against her: she was a woman, a Socialist, a foreigner by birth, an empire-hater by conviction. "Enemies of peace," she cried, "are not all in Germany or Russia. They are right here. They are those who refuse to relinquish vested interests. . . . That word empire is connected with a history of horror and slaughter. I hope to see it disappear from our vocabulary."

Mrs. Steeves's words were greeted with howls of "Shame! Shame!" Up rose B. C.'s Premier Thomas D. Pattullo to chide her--and incidentally to prove that antitotalitarian nations must adopt semi-totalitarian methods to achieve their ends: "I am sorry at the honorable lady member's attitude, and appeal that no other member of this House give similar utterances. It is fortunate she is living in a country where tolerance is enjoyed. I doubt if she would be allowed such latitude in her native Holland. If such words are again uttered, I shall have to advise Ottawa for action under the Canada War Measures Act."

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