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...Ottawa last week, Minister of External Affairs Louis St. Laurent brusquely rejected the request. Snapped the Minister: "The Canadian Government does not regard the invitation in its present form as affording Canada an opportunity for participating in the peace settlement in the way which would be appropriate for a country which contributed substantially to the war against Germany...
External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent promised Quebec 73 seats (instead of the present 65) in the House, under the new redistribution plan. Finance Minister Doug Abbott, who speaks French like, a Frenchman, promised taxation relief. Transport Minister Lionel Chevrier promised that Quebeckers would get an "equitable" share of Dominion Government contracts. Solicitor General Joseph Jean did no promising but plenty of praising...
...long time, the P.M. had wanted to ease the burden of hardworking, dog-tired Finance Minister James Ilsley. Now he named Ilsley to the easier Justice Ministry. Justice Minister Louis St. Laurent, who had been handling foreign relations for several months as well, would now devote all his time to the External Affairs Ministry. To fill Ilsley's tough Finance job, Mr. King named young Douglas Abbott, National Defense Minister...
Surprised newsmen, with advance copies of the speech before them, saw that the real political punch in the speech had been left undelivered. It was explained that the banquet was behind schedule and that it was about time for Minister St. Laurent to go on the air. For the balance of the P.M.'s speech Canadians were forced to turn to their daily newspapers. There they learned that Mackenzie King had whacked Quebec's politicians, notably Premier Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale, which has shown little love for the Liberals...
Though the tone of the whole speech was determined, politicos saw more significance in the worried undertone. Plainly the P.M. had been alarmed by the Party's recent setbacks. He was appealing to the plain people for support. And in retaining the reluctant St. Laurent in his Cabinet, the P.M. was keeping close at hand a potential heir apparent from the key province of Quebec...