“QUEBEC’S BURNING HATE”

Something had to be done to relieve the great pressure on the faithful Witnesses in Quebec. So, a special assembly was held in Montreal on November 2 and 3, 1946. On hand were N. H. Knorr, then president of the Watch Tower Society, and the Society’s legal counsel from Brooklyn, H. C. Covington. Brother Knorr’s concluding talk was entitled “What Shall We Do?”

There was excitement in the air as an expectant and thrilled audience heard Brother Knorr give the answer by reading to the public, for the first time, the now historic document “Quebec’s Burning Hate for God and Christ and Freedom Is the Shame of All Canada.” It was a sizzling tract! In stern and measured tones, Knorr proclaimed, like a message of doom, Jehovah’s indictment of the corrupt administration of the Province of Quebec. The pamphlet was a straightforward, hard-hitting statement of facts that have never been disputed.

Brother Knorr announced that on November 15, 1946​—only 12 days later—​a free distribution of this tract would begin across Canada and would continue for 16 days. This was a clarion call for action!

Rapidly, the pamphlet “Quebec’s Burning Hate” was spread across the country, including Quebec. Now the legal battle really began in earnest.