Talk:R. B. Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett

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Contents 1 Thanks 2 Bennett and antisemitism 3 Nickle Resolution 4 Move 5 Government Interference in the Economy

[edit] Thanks

This is the best written of the Canadian PM entries.--Simon.Pole 9 July 2005 08:29 (UTC)

Could someone please tell me who copyrights this.

[edit] Bennett and antisemitism

In the article about Adrien Arcand, the article states that Bennett covertly gave funds to the fascist in order to spread anti-smeitism. Is this true?

This is a finding Quebec investigative journalist Normand Lester made during his research for Le Livre noir du Canada anglais, translated as The Black Book of English Canada. The book examines the subject in its section from page 253 to page 266 (with the last few pages driving away from Bennett). It cites many examples of letters of Arcand pledging his loyalty to Bennett, asking him for funds for his newspapers and acknowledging a past meeting with him. The first avowed goal of the funding of Arcand was to help the Conservative Party win elections, starting with the one in 1930, by secretly paying them to help campaign for them. The choice of those very small fascist newspapers is however notable. I am working on an addition to this article. You might learn more when it's polished enough for me to include it. --Liberlogos 13:53, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

It has been added (at Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett#Controversy). --Liberlogos 20:01, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nickle Resolution

If Bennett got a peerage why couldn't Conrad Black? Carolynparrishfan 19:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, never mind, the article above answers my question. Carolynparrishfan 19:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move

I've moved the page here as the previous title was inconsistent with those on other Earls, Viscounts, etc. (such as Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, etc.).

Bennett's full title was: Viscount Bennett of Mickleham, Calgary and Hopewell, as referenced here --gbambino 23:09, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

No, his title was "Viscount Bennett", the rest being merely part of the territorial designation (in this case "of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada"). Lord Byng of Vimy and Lord Thomson of Fleet were created "Viscount Byng of Vimy, of Thorpe-le-Soken in the County of Essex" and "Baron Thomson of Fleet, of Northbridge in the City of Edinburgh", and so aren't comparable examples. (I'm not sure what Lord Aberdeen has to do with anything.) Proteus (Talk) 22:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I believe this article should be moved back to R. B. Bennett because that's how he was known for the vast majority of his life and he only gained the viscount title after he had mostly vanished from the public eye (compare Lady Anne Blunt). It also gives the article's title a distinctly British flavour which I think is somewhat misleading for such a notable figure of Canadian history.--Lairor 21:38, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Government Interference in the Economy

There are several references to things like 'massive Federal government inteference in the economy' and discussions about whether New Deal type programs were helpful that seem to have been written from a libertarian point of view. Perhaps that could be fixed and perhaps, except on the very edges of opinion, there is some consensus about government intervention in the '30s since it is so long ago.