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Debonair Louis St. Laurent rose in a half-empty House last week and casually answered Member Bentley by submitting an exchange of notes* in May 1945 (just after V-E day), when Canada and the U.S. agreed to extend the Hyde Park plan for close economic cooperation into the difficult years of reconversion. The bored House hummed with members' private chatter. St. Laurent's words were little noted...
...dining room of Winnipeg's Fort Garry Hotel was jampacked with eager, attentive Liberals. From all over the province they had come to see and hear Louis Stephen St. Laurent, External Affairs Minister and the man most likely to be Canada's next Prime Minister. As the heir presumptive, he was out to sell himself to the prairies...
...dried deal that 66-year-old Louis St. Laurent would succeed him. There were other able (and younger) cabinet ministers in the running: Douglas Abbott (Finance), Brooke. Claxton (Defense), J. L. Ilsley (Justice) and James Gardiner (Agriculture). But the word had got around that St. Laurent had received the nod from Mackenzie King, and that alone put him far out in front. Besides, his succession would preserve the growing tradition of alternating
...Laurent was willing. On his arrival in Winnipeg, he told newsmen: "If the national convention feels that it wants me -if the party . . . thinks I could serve my country and promote rather than prejudice the cause of national unity-I would feel it was my responsibility to go through with...
This week the Dominion's juiciest diplomatic assignment was still going beg ging. At Lake Success, until a willing and acceptable man is found, the job of representing Canada would probably be filled by External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister, behind a screen of refrigerated secretaries, said nothing...