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Despite their differences, the careers of the two Quebecois are curiously intertwined, and reflect both the unity and conflict within Quebec's tightly knit society. Said Claude Ryan, until recently editor of Montreal's intellectual daily Le Devoir: "Destiny has for a long time prepared Messieurs Lévesque and Trudeau for a decisive confrontation...
...Race Track? The latest scandal was the forced resignation two weeks ago of Pearson's Minister Without Portfolio Yvon Dupuis. The youngest (38) man in the Cabinet, Dupuis was also one of the best campaigners and was extremely well connected to Quebec party bosses. Now Le Devoir and La Presse, two Montreal dailies, were full of stories that Dupuis had taken a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters get a franchise in his home district. All Pearson will say publicly is that he asked Dupuis, who loudly proclaims his innocence, "to relinquish his position." Pearson...
Last week came another blow. Montreal's influential French-language Le Devoir picked up a whisper that has been going around for years, reported that Diefenbaker's occasional uncontrollable trembling of the hands could be the result of having Parkinson's disease. At the party's annual convention in Ottawa, Diefenbaker scoffed at the story: "For one who has been described in such touching and dulcet tones by the Liberal Party as being in a state of decrepitude, I want to remind them that we outran them three times, and we'll outrun them again...
...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...