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...acid test facing Prime Minister St. Laurent was the general election expected some time this year. Last week Louis St. Laurent received notice that the struggle would be bitter and hard-fought. In a by-election in the Quebec riding of Nicolet-Yamaska, his Liberal Party candidate was beaten in a surprise turnover by a Progressive Conservative (Tory...
...Tories, the parallel seemed perfect. The present Liberal government was in its 14th year of continuous power. It had a new head in Prime Minister St. Laurent, but it was essentially a continuation of William Lyon Mackenzie King's administration. The fact that St. Laurent was a French-Canadian made the parallel look even better to the Tories; once again Quebeckers had rejected one of their...
...Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, paid his first state visit to Washington last week. Actually, despite his striped pants, stiff collar and courtly manners, he was just like an old friend dropping in for a chat. There was no state dinner: Good Neighbor St. Laurent was entertained at a stag luncheon in Blair House with 14 other guests-mostly top-drawer U.S. officials...
...made plain the strategy decided. His party was going to fight all the way; it planned to criticize every government measure as it had never done under former leader John Bracken. Drew lost no time in starting. On the first day, when Prime Minister St. Laurent introduced a motion, Drew found a technical flaw in it, forced St. Laurent to withdraw...
...Soft Answer. Soft-voiced Louis St. Laurent tried to get off an effective reply, but his first, dignified answers were no match for Drew's slashing style. Then St. Laurent unsheathed the Liberals' ultimate weapon: "The government is prepared to go to the people at any time on this issue." Only this week did he start cutting George Drew down to size...