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Louis St. Laurent, to stump against Duplessis. And what was the result...
Godbout had lost his own seat in the Quebec legislature. St. Laurent's own riding had been carried by Duplessis' Union Nationale. Union Nationale had swept all four constituencies in Quebec City, regarded as a Liberal stronghold. Before election, the Liberals held 33 seats in the legislature; now they have eight. Funny-money L'Union des Electeurs elected none of its 92 candidates, the socialist CCF's seven candidates were all defeated, and so was the lone Communist. One Nationalist and one Independent squeezed in. Union Nationale, which had 52 seats before, will now have...
While dignified Secretary St. Laurent bored listeners with scholarly discussions, Duplessis ranted like Huey Long. While the Liberals spent around $500,000, the Union Nationale ladled out at least...
...Duplessis in headline catching. Houde howled that the inclusion of. Newfoundland as the Dominion's tenth province was a foul plot to bring in 350,000 British votes to drown out French Canada, that Prime Minister King started World War II by "provoking Hitler," that Louis St. Laurent was a discredited leader of the French Canadians and should resign. When it was all over, jubilant Union Nationale supporters paraded Godbout in effigy through Quebec City streets...
...winner will be was anybody's guess last week. Only two candidates had yet said for certain that they were seeking election: External Affairs Minister St. Laurent of Quebec and Agriculture Minister Gardiner of Saskatchewan. St. Laurent, with his bloc of support in powerful Quebec, was still the favorite. But the last Liberal convention in 1919 showed that favorites do not always run to form when the grind of uninterrupted balloting begins...