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Hutchison, Bruce - Interview

Item number (ISN):

244010

Series title:

Close Up

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1959 ?

Item number (ISN):

244010

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: CBOT FILM LIBRARY

Accession:

1996-0035

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1959 ?

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Douglas Leiterman; Reid Lucklow

Description:

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Bruce Hutchison is interviewed in Victoria, B.C. Hutchison describes William Lyon Mackenzie King as an egoist, philosopher in politics, a practical politician, kindly in some aspects of his life, ruthless in others, a religious man and a dreamer, yet a highly practical sort of man. He says that these contradictions added up to a queer assorted genius. Hutchison got to know King when he was in British Columbia with Ernest Lapointe during the 1921 election campaign. Hutchison was at dinner just before the outbreak of World War Two at Laurier House, when King told him that Hitler was a harmless peasant. As this wasn't for publication Hutchison filed it away for later use in his book. Hutchison talks about Arthur Meighen, King's leadership style, the constitutional crisis, and the conscription crisis,. Hutchison felt that King handled the conscription crisis, brilliantly because he managed to bring the country through the crisis, without clashes between the two races. He says that while he managed this with magnificent generalship he mismanaged it personally due to the ruthless destruction of Colonel Ralston's career. He talks about King as an anglophone, discusses the ruins at Kingsmere, and the influences of various people on him such as Paul Martin, C.D. Howe, and Jack Pickersgill. <30mn>

Language:

English

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Vault ISN:

281408

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9605-0208

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

281410

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9605-0209

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

281864

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9605-0270

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

281866

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9605-0271

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

281869

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9605-0272

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

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