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Courtly, patrician Louis St. Laurent rode a campaign train west from Ottawa last week to seek a sixth consecutive term for the Liberal government he has headed for nine years. When the train reached the hustings on the green-touched prairies, out bounded a lovable character rarely seen since the last election: not the remote Prime Minister but "Uncle Louis," the politician...
...Laurent, who seldom gets a chance to be Uncle Louis between elections, played the role right up to the specifications recently outlined in the London Economist: "Obviously he should not appear to be too bright. He should not offer specific policies, for that brings him down to the level of ordinary politicians. He should cultivate the air of a slippered family man sucking his pipe by the fire, all passion spent. He should claim only the tolerant judgment of one long acquainted with human folly, thus tacitly asserting his own immunity from...
...Laurent's major opponent was out campaigning too. Barnstorming the eastern seaboard, Tory Leader John Diefenbaker hammered at the Liberal government's "neglect" of the poor-brother Maritime Provinces, and looked like a strong campaigner. But Uncle Louis was in the enviable position of playing to an electorate that is by and large prosperous. Crowed he: "The astonishing fact is that in rate of growth of population, of productivity, of national income, Canada last year outstripped even the U.S. This country is really rolling...
Canadian voters, who have long anticipated a general election this spring, finally got a date. The Liberal government headed by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent last week wound up its business in the House of Commons, dissolved Parliament, called an election for June...
...last session of Parliament, the government cut taxes, increased old-age pensions and "baby bonuses," i.e., mothers' allowances. It put through a national hospital insurance act. But for their political heavy artillery, the Liberals still rely mainly on the powerful personal appeal of Quebec-born Louis St. Laurent, who at 75 is leading his third national campaign...