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Shrewd little Premier Adelard Godbout last week introduced in Quebec's legislature a bill to: 1) create a five-man Hydroelectric Commission, thereby putting the Province in the power business; 2) expropriate, by April 15, the $210,000,000 Montreal Light, Heat & Power Cons. Said he: "[This bill] will change the economic life of the Province...
Plus whatever honest interest Premier Godbout had in cheap public power, he was clearly bidding for reelection. He was well aware that his French-Canadian constituents were in a mood to applaud any blow at the trustards, Quebec's epithet for the English-Canadian capitalists who control much of the Province's industry...
...Quebec. To his Ste. Claire hearers, many of whom seldom if ever see a Jew, Duplessis hinted a horrendous plot by the International Zionist Brotherhood to establish 100,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe on Quebec's rolling fields. Opposition Leader Duplessis dragged in Premier Adélard Godbout's ruling Liberal Party, said that the Zionists had decided "to aid financially all Liberal candidates who would agree openly or secretly to support the plan in the House of Commons...
...Godbout has at all times shown his complete willingness and eagerness to rename a Canadian town Lidice. Frelighsburg, where M. Godbout has a large farm) Was selected by the Quebec Government for the ceremony. An emissary was sent to Frelighsburg to notify them of their selection. At the very moment of his arrival, a news leak occurred in Canada resulting in stories in the Canadian press that the town was going to have its name changed. There had not yet been time to consult the mayor of the town. The mayor was aggrieved and refused to permit renaming. I have...
...Reader Green, thanks for an illuminating account of the reasons for Premier Godbout's knuckle-rapping...