Governor-General Bruce Hogg.
The Twenty-first Grand Council of the Confederation of North America was elected to a five-year term on 15 February 1943. The partisan makeup of the Twenty-first Grand Council was eighty-four People's Coalition and sixty-six Liberal Party. The Twenty-first Grand Council's P.C. majority elected Bruce Hogg of Northern Vandalia to the office of Governor-General on the first ballot and chose James Billington of the Northern Confederation as Council President. It is not known who was chosen as Majority Leader or Minority Leader.
The elections were the first to take place during the Global War under a national unity government established by Hogg in July 1940. The unity government proved so popular that at a Cabinet meeting on 18 November 1942 the members agreed that neither would hold a national convention. Instead, the candidates for the Grand Council would run unpledged, and whichever party won a majority would select the next governor-general, with the remaining Cabinet members retaining their places. If the P.C. won Hogg would remain as governor-general and Liberal Party leader Douglas Watson would remain as Minister for Foreign Affairs; if the Liberals won, the two men would switch offices.
Council President James Billington.
During the Twenty-first Grand Council the C.N.A.'s government continued its policy of clandestinely supplying Great Britain with arms, munitions, food, and other supplies. As the Germans could do nothing to stop the shipments short of declaring war on the C.N.A., which they were reluctant to do, the supply shipments grew in quantity and the transfers from the C.N.A.'s military base in Iceland occurred more openly. By the end of 1943, British pilots were flying North American warmobiles directly from Iceland to Great Britain. Hogg's policy of supplying the British had the unexpected (by him) side effect of ending the economic slump that had mired the C.N.A. since the Panic of 1936, as the manufacturing of weapons and wartime farm subsidies ended unemployment and brought prosperity across the country (as had been predicted by British economist Bernard Morris and denied by North American economist Lawrence French).
The Global War was still raging through most of the world in the fall of 1947, and the members of Hogg's unity government agreed that the 1948 Grand Council elections would be held under the same conditions as those of 1943.
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