Recherche dans la collection - [Stursberg, Peter - Interview]

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: CBOT FILM LIBRARY

1996-0020

Film

2 of 2

1973-08-02

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

interviewer, Jean Bruce

Unedited interview of Peter Stursberg for the CBC television series THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY : STRUGGLE FOR NATIONHOOD. Stursberg talks about: the construction of the Alaska Highway; concerns about having American soldiers on Canadian soil; the inactivity of Canadian troops in England; the sense of national pride when the Canadians got the right to go into battle as a unit; Exercise Spartan; the use of the British Exercise Spartan to get rid of A.G.L. MacNaughton; the respect the ordinary soldiers felt for MacNaughton and the dislike they felt for William Lyon Mackenzie King; Dieppe; the Sicily and Italian campaigns; the Normandy landings; the necessity of conscription; the treatment of conscripts in training; the views of the Canadian people on the war; Louis St. Laurent's fatigue by the mid-1950s; St. Laurent's allowing C.D. Howe, Walter Harris and Robert Winters do all the work; and signs that the Canadian people were getting tired of Liberal arrogance.

English

Libre

GAD 0FD547

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