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...election, expected next summer. The Tories, out of power since 1935, have lost five straight elections, and they have shown few signs of increasing their political appeal. The party's great weakness is in the key province of Quebec, home of the Liberals' Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. That weakness has not been remedied by the election of John Diefenbaker, who speaks no French and failed to win any Quebec support at the Tory convention...
...bitterness of the Tory attack angered Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent who had, until then, been scrupulously careful not to criticize Britain publicly. He fired back the blunt charge that Britain, France and Israel had "taken the law into their own hands." Snapped St. Laurent: "The era when the supermen of Europe could govern the whole world is coming pretty close...
Last week, Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent sent off a note to the U.S. State Department emphasizing that Canada did not support the U.S. attempt to tax a Canadian company. Canadian and U.S. financiers feared that if the U.S. can collect against Consolidated Premium, other Canadian companies with trans-border operations and U.S. stockholders will be liable to similar tax raids...
...choosing the man to oppose Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent in next summer's national election, the opinion was gaining ground in Progressive Conservative ranks that the time had come to take a calculated risk with a fresh leader, unbruised and unwearied by the Tories' past defeats in five straight elections. Ideally, he would be a man widely known and respected across the country, an able administrator, a good speaker, gifted with the intellect and energy to guide Canada's destiny as Prime Minister or serve as a rousing leader of the opposition in Parliament...
...appeal has long been recognized by politicians, and he has been under pressure before to get into politics. The idea appealed to him. but the circumstances were never quite right for the move. Now, although he is in good health and is, in fact, the same age as St. Laurent when the Prime Minister entered politics in 1941, Smith is inclined to believe that he is too old to embark on a new career of rebuilding the Tory Party. But Smith has not yet said that he would refuse the nomination, and many Tories are hopeful that he may still...