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...world's most durable political regimes, this week won its fifth straight term. In a national election, held in all ten provinces, in the Eskimo settlements of the Arctic, and at Canadian army camps in Korea and Europe, the Liberal administration led by Prime Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 71, was swept back into office...
Intent on extending the Liberal Party's string of four consecutive victories and 18 years of power is Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 71, who succeeded William Lyon Mackenzie King as leader of his party and nation in 1948. St. Laurent was using an old and effective campaign technique. He traveled around the country making unemotional speeches, talking to schoolchildren like a wise old grandfather, mentioning with pride the accomplishments of his government, but abstaining almost wholly from campaign promises. With a powerful, entrenched party behind him, his own unmatched personal popularity, and an enviable record of producing both...
Champion's Parry. In Vancouver, B.C. last week, Prime Minister St. Laurent replied with a 12-point election program which he called "an appeal to reason and good sense." He pledged his party to continue the pay-as-you-go financing scheme under which Canada has, since 1946, decreased the national debt and. except in '50 and '51, reduced taxes. Otherwise, he promised little beyond the continuance of current policies...
Canada's national election, its first since 1949, will be held Aug. 10. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent set the date last week within 48 hours after his return from the coronation, giving the signal for active campaigning to begin this week...
With the country enjoying record prosperity and 71-year-old Liberal Leader St. Laurent at the crest of his personal popularity, the incumbent Liberal Party is an odds-on choice to win its fifth straight election since 1935. Nevertheless, the Tory opposition, led by Ontario Lawyer George Drew, concedes nothing, and is mapping a vigorous campaign on the hopeful theme of "time for a change...