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Despite appearances, George Drew's government did not really fall; it was pushed. In power 19 months, its 37 members had managed to control the 90-seat House by grace of the Legislature's 16 Liberals. Then bumptious Liberal Leader Mitchell Frederick Hepburn had upset the applecart by teaming with teacherish Edward Bigelow ("Ted") Jolliffe and his 32 socialist CCFers...
...Tory defeat, strangely enough, was annoying instead of pleasing to Ted Jolliffe. His party had just been shellacked in the February by-election in Grey North (TIME, Feb. 12); the CCF wanted no election now. Mitch Hepburn, who engineered the business, could grin at the defeat of one rival and the discomfiture of another, but there was little chance of the Liberals picking up many new seats. The man who beamed was George Drew. Now he could go to the people, contend that his opponents had sabotaged him, ask for a clear majority...
...Lieutenant. The other ten: Admirals William H. Standley, Thomas C. Hart, Joseph M. Reeves, Harry E. Yarnell, Arthur J. Hepburn, Orin G. Murfin, Edward C. Kalbfus, Claude C. Bloch, James O. Richardson, Charles P. Snyder-plus one, Jonas H. Ingram, whose promotion has now been announced (TIME...
...Hepburn's unexpected blast left Premier Drew and almost every politician in Canada guessing at Mitch's next move. On national and international questions, Mitch had often been spectacularly wrong. In the early days of the war he had persuaded his Legislature to condemn Mr. King's war effort. The Prime Minister promptly called a national election, was returned with an increased majority. Hepburn gloomily predicted that Germany would beat Russia. Shortly after Pearl Harbor he gravely embarrassed Ottawa by sneering that "the proud U.S. Fleet has gone into hiding." But in earthy Ontario politics, earthy, colorful...
...week's end Hepburn held out a somewhat sere olive branch to his old enemy Prime Minister King: "My argument is not with Mr. King. . . . The time has come to oppose a new and dangerous form of Toryism in Ontario." Whether or not Mr. King accepted this peace offering, he undoubtedly would welcome any ally against enemy Drew. No one doubted that Hepburn was ready to step back as provincial Liberal leader-if he were asked. But some wondered whether he might not also be daydreaming. Mitch knows that Prime Minister King is 70 and that someone, some...