When Canadians of the 1940s weighed national security against the public’s right to know, The Globe’s actions helped shift attitudes against official silence
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He spoke little of his wartime experiences before publishing his autobiography, One Soldier’s Story, in which he wrote that he was ‘in the last stages of starvation’ when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Canada is one of many overlooked Allied countries that helped turn the tide of World War II from the autumn of 1942 onwards. Although the Canadian-led Dieppe Raid of that year ultimately failed, the…