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Description
Mr. Bérard describes a couple of events in Hong Kong which demonstrated the ignorance and arrogance of the British toward Canadians.
Transcription
It was, to me, the smell. There was so many people, everywhere. I can’t tell you how. There was a lot of people. When we would march on (inaudible) Road from harbour to Sham Shui Po, there was a British woman on the street. They were watching us marching. This woman said, “They’re not Indians.” I guess they thought we were from Canada, we were Indians, all Indians. There was quite a few Indians with us. Good soldiers, too. Well, first when the boys started going downtown and this is something that we don’t do, we didn’t tell our soldiers, “Well, you see an officer, say, a couple of miles away, salute him anyway.” We didn’t mention that. But one British major was escorting his wife across the street in a packed street, wasn’t saluted by some of the Canadians and the Canadians like myself had to teach my platoon how to salute for three weeks. Why didn’t we train for war instead?