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...Laurent Jules Ravix, Administrator with the French Overseas Service and presently studying at Oxford University, spoke of the difficulties France is having at the present with Arabs in Algeria. The major issues in Algeria could be resolved by a closer union between Algeria and France, preferably by a strong North African Federation, he asserted...
This week, as the conference began in the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street, only four of the eight Commonwealth Prime Ministers originally invited were on hand. Canada's St. Laurent, for years a quiet voice of moderation at such get-togethers, had just resigned office and been replaced by Tory John Diefenbaker (who turned up on schedule). Racist South Africa's Strydom refused to come for "personal reasons" which many ascribed to an unwillingness to sit down with-or to be photographed with-the new nation of Ghana's Negro P.M., Kwame Nkrumah. New Zealand...
...constitutional contention, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was left with two choices: to resign immediately, or to hang on and face a test in the House. A group of Liberal ministers, hopeful that the government could win small-party support, desperately tried to persuade him to stay on. But the aging (75) Prime Minister was resolved to resign and let John Diefenbaker become Prime Minister of Canada...
Canada's election campaign raced toward voting day on June 10 with seemingly little doubt-according to pollsters -that Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's Liberals would extend their 22-year reign. But the Tory opposition party, aroused by earnest Prairie Lawyer John Diefenbaker, threatened to walk off with a sizable chunk of the comfortable Liberal majority in the House of Commons...
...Last week the 75-year-old Prime Minister moved spryly through the Quebec countryside, battening down the Liberals' holdings with talks in flawless French. "I will tell you a secret, which really isn't a secret, concerning the method which has helped me to succeed," confided St. Laurent. "I have always believed that the concept of père de famille is the best one to apply in public administration...