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Even cagey old opportunist Mayor Camillien Houde of Montreal jumped on the Duplessis bandwagon, just in time. He kissed and made up with his archenemy, then set out to top Duplessis in headline catching. Houde howled that the inclusion of. Newfoundland as the Dominion's tenth province was a foul plot to bring in 350,000 British votes to drown out French Canada, that Prime Minister King started World War II by "provoking Hitler," that Louis St. Laurent was a discredited leader of the French Canadians and should resign. When it was all over, jubilant Union Nationale supporters paraded...
...sixth time, bug-eyed Camillien Houde would be mayor of Montreal. There had been talk that a couple of unknowns would try to take his $10,000-a-year job away from him, but they decided to save the taxpayers' time and money. And so as filing time expired, Houde became last week the first Montreal mayor since 1898 to land the job without opposition...
...made Camillien feel good. While congratulatory wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never leave a man in a poor fix if I can help it. No one leaves my office without some hope. But I don't mince words. Sometimes I tell them it's their own damned fault they got into trouble in the first place. Then I try to help...
...three-year term, Camillien Houde has no special plans. He knows his city and his city knows him. He fills about 1,900 official engagements a year, recently logged eleven in one night. Says Houde: "I am what TIME called me-a glorified handshaker, a hotel-greeter-no? I do not exactly get tired. I get-what you say? -stale. When I have to get up early, it seems the Devil himself contrives to keep me up late. But I can take it. I am tough like hell...
Official Montreal really put on the dog for its distinguished visitor. Excitable Mayor Camillien Houde was absolutely épaté as the visitor signed his name below Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's in the city's Gold Book. Then came a civic reception, and that afternoon the visitor was whisked out to the Blue Bonnets racetrack for the running of the big sixth race, renamed in his honor. The winning jockey was a namesake (but no kin) of Maurice Chevalier, which was fitting, because the man who handed him the winner's plaque was the latest homme...