Word: devoir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than a week, but already the government of French Canada was taking on the easier, more tolerant attitude of Premier Paul Sauvé, 52, the longtime Duplessis lieutenant who was hand-picked by Le Chef to succeed. COMPLETELY NEW CLIMATE IN QUEBEC, headlined Montreal's Duplessis-hating Le Devoir...
...Sauvé set out to woo Quebec newsmen, who often feuded with Duplessis. He named a press attache "so the public can quickly be informed.'' And he quickly began to use his talent for delegating authority and work, much in contrast to his predecessor. Summed up Le Devoir: "Under Duplessis, there were 20. ministers looking at one man hard at work; today, there is one man looking at 20 ministers hard at work...
Readers of Montreal's French-language daily Le Devoir, an ultra-nationalist newspaper closely associated with the Roman Catholic Church, have been getting some odd slants on the Korean war in the last two weeks. Samples...
...Devoir's strange opinions were supplied by a young (26) French Canadian writer named Jacques Hebert who set out on a round-the-world junket last June with an arrangement to send Le Devoir some travelogue pieces from faraway places. He reached Japan soon after the Korean fighting began, managed to get himself accredited as a war correspondent, and launched gaily into political punditry. Hebert is a Catholic and an antiCommunist; apparently his French Canadian isolationist-pacifist sentiments led him into echoing the Communist appeasement line on Korea almost as faithfully as though he were writing for Pravda...
From Korea Hebert returned to Japan, where he wrote a piece on the atomic bomb damage at Nagasaki. This week he was in Manila, awaiting permission to enter Indo-China. Le Devoir intended to go right on front-paging his reports...