Word: laurents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concern." Tension ended when newsmen got more facts. Mr. King had been ordered to stay in bed for a rest for three or four weeks. But he was sitting up for visitors, discussing conference details with members of the Canadian delegation and getting his acting prime minister, Louis St. Laurent, to come over and sit in at Downing Street...
...Laurent was more than willing. Previously there had been a good political reason for staying at home: fear that Quebec's anti-British bloc might misunderstand a trip to London right after his election as Liberal leader. The charge was sure to be made in Quebec that St. Laurent had gone to London to get British orders on how to run Canada. The emergency created by Mr. King's illness would stifle any such talk...
...switch from King to St. Laurent would make no difference in Canada's policy at the council table. Until six weeks ago, St. Laurent was Canada's Secretary of State for External Affairs. He knew just what the Prime Minister had in mind...
...Laurent was hoping that the conference would take up his own project of North Atlantic Union-allying Canada and the U.S. with Western Union in Europe. St. Laurent had made the first public proposal of North Atlantic Union nearly six months ago. The trip to London was a chance to give the idea another personal push...
...first move toward effective leadership, Drew must get himself elected to Parliament from a safe Ontario constituency. Then the Liberal Prime Minister-to-be, Louis St. Laurent, will face a new and vigorous leader of the loyal opposition. And a newly purposeful Tory machine will be driving with the throttle wide open toward the next election...