 After gaining the trust of the Canadian government , he became Chief Censor for war @-@ time Canada from 1942 until 1944 ; Eggleston 's predecessor , Major James Haig @-@ Smith , was ordered to ban some 600 published works due to leftist sympathies . Among the high @-@ profile censorship requests that Eggleston didn 't oblige to include the Battle of the St. Lawrence , after he discovered that it was merely an attempt to , as he put it , " give the Minister of Naval Affairs a scoop when he announced it to the House " , and the Conscription Crisis of 1944 , to which he was personally objected , despite pressure from then Prime Minister , Mackenzie King . Upon being discharged from the post , General Léo Richer <unk> commented in the Ottawa Citizen that he was " largely responsible for the efficient functioning of censorship in Canada " . He was succeeded in the role by fellow journalist <unk> Charpentier . 
