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Shortly after Pearson finished speaking in Parliament, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent announced a last-minute decision to take his external affairs chief with him to the Commonwealth conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS). An aide said that at London St. Laurent intends to do "a selling job for Eisenhower...
...Canadian Senate has no fewer than 20 vacancies for its lifetime, $10,000-a-year jobs. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was expected to appoint new Senators for the reopening of Parliament last month. But for a reason never made public, the vacant seats were not filled. Last week the secret leaked out: one of St. Laurent's proposed appointments was blocked by the Roman Catholic Church, and he postponed, at least temporarily, his plan for Senate reform...
...Politicians. St. Laurent had intended to name Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, 51, brilliant dean of the social-science faculty at Quebec's Laval University. Father Lévesque was ready to accept the post, and his Dominican Order approved. But the priest's diocesan superior, Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, vetoed it. Ottawa Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux and Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal agreed with Archbishop Roy's stand that the unprecedented * appointment of a priest to a political post might eventually embarrass the church...
Besides Father Lévesque, St. Laurent planned to give Senate seats to a Protestant churchman and to eight other non-political figures in public life. Dr. Wilder Penfield, Montreal's famed U.S.-born neurosurgeon, was another prospect...
...decline was due almost entirely to the prairie crop failure, which cut farm production by just about $500 million. Except for that one unavoidable setback, the Canadian economy in 1954 had kept pace with the record 1953 rate, and fully warranted an optimistic report by Prime Minister St. Laurent as the new year dawned...