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Canada's Conservatives-who staged their first national political convention in 1927-last week got news that they will hold their fourth national convention soon. The sudden resignation of their leader John Bracken had caught them by surprise, and they were in a tearing hurry to select a new leader before the government called a general election...
Five hours after he announced John Bracken's abrupt retirement, James Macdonnell, president of the Progressive Conservative Association, flashed urgent telegrams to organizers in all 245 ridings. The message: get cracking, pick some 1,300 delegates for the convention...
Under John Bracken, the P.C.s had tried to stable western progressives in the same stalls with eastern arch-Tories. It did not work. They had ended with a lacklustre program, not liberal enough to steal votes from Mackenzie King, not conservative enough for right-wingers. Last week many Conservative bigwigs were pinning their party's main hopes on a tested Tory, big, handsome Premier George Drew of Ontario. So far, the only other contender in sight was Saskatchewan's John George Diefenbaker, Tory gadfly of Parliament...
...Eddie Bracken took a slapdash poll. The comedian called 30 random telephone numbers, asked: "Did you listen to the Eddie Bracken show last night?" Seven said that they had; two volunteered the sponsor's name. It was a surprising response, because 1) it topped the highest Hooperating the Bracken show ever had, and 2) the show went off the air six months...
Secondly, Mr. Bracken told us how we should be glad to have a Thomas committee which "protects our civil liberties." I assume he was speaking of the recent smear of Karl T. Compton before they presented any valid evidence, and then denied him the opportunity to appear in his own defense. I think that well-informed Mr. Bracken would call that "100% Americanism in action." Stewart D. Kranz...