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503 pages. Index. Addenda. The personal copy of Canadian M.P. Norman Jacques. Mr. Jacques signed this copy inside the front board and beneath his name wrote "House of Commons, Ottawa, July 29/46". Mr. Jacques was a controversial member of the Social Credit party who "promoted C.H. Douglas's belief in an international financial Jewish conspiracy and attempted to read excerpts of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion into the Canadian parliamentary record." - Wikipedia. Upon verso of front free endpaper the following note is hand-written, "Compliments of Dr. Donald J. McDaniel, 31 North State St., Chicago, Ill." "The book is not so much an account of the trial as an analysis of it. Dennis and St. George identify the people and the purposes behind the trial, how and why it came about. And they devote much of the book to a dissection of the government's case against the accused seditionists." - L.A. Rollins. Tight and square with moderate external wear. Bright gilt decoration and lettering upon blue cloth front board and backstrip. Book