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When the Queen Elizabeth slipped her hawsers at Manhattan's Pier 90 and moved through the grey morning toward the open sea, she carried the Justice Minister on his greatest assignment yet. As head of Canada's five-man delegation,* Louis Stephen St. Laurent was London-bound to speak for his eleven and a half million countrymen, and to guard their interests, at the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Laurent's new job was another milestone in an amazingly rapid career. A year ago he was almost a total stranger to the complexities of international affairs. Four years ago only a handful of Canadians had even heard his name. Now, in the opinion of many a careful appraiser of politics, he was Canada's No. 2 man-the man most likely to succeed Prime Minister King on an interim basis, until the Liberal Party could get around to electing a younger, permanent leader...
...investigation had been going on quietly for a year and a half. Into Parliament's lap last week Justice Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent dropped the 60-page, 30,000-word summary: a report on cartels, their effect on Canadians, what should be done about them. Chief investigator was Fred A. McGregor, Commissioner of Canada's Combines [Monopolies] Investigation Act. Examples of what be reported...
What Minister St. Laurent had to propose to Parliament was that it get busy putting down cartels. First step: appropriation of enough money to enforce antimonopoly laws inside Canada...
...story, such as it is, is concerned with Pirate Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid), an ex-Dutch sea captain, fat, dastardly Spanish Governor Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak) and aristocratic Francisca (Maureen O'Hara). There is all sorts of high-spirited romancing, pirate treachery, Iberian cruelty and slashing sword play before Van Horn and Francisca finally sail away together into an almost overpoweringly golden sunrise...