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...crowd guessed whom he meant, shouted: "St. Laurent!" (Justice Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent, who had interned Houde). Chuckled Houde: "I presume you are referring to the St. Lawrence River." Then he switched into English: "I have not been the victim of British fair play . . . only the victim of a political party...
...publicly disapprove. . . ." The Liberal Party's Premier Adélard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth to one-half of one percent of the population [of Quebec] should not be taken too seriously. . . . Senator Bouchard is one of those who assert that a spade should be called a spade but sometimes . . . he is apt to refer...
Fallen Saints. "The first village we came to, St. Laurent, was like the curate's egg-good in spots. There were pleasant little stone houses with courtyards where birds hang in the trees, black and white hens guiding their chicks about and one belated hen setting on a manure pile hatching her brood. With American efficiency we had already supplied these householders with French tricolors to fly and with wall placards reading 'Private Property-Off Limits to Troops...
...came in 1940's summer, Edouard Herriot was President of the Chamber of Deputies. The men of Vichy had no use for the man of Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors, remarks, gestures-"even...
Last Sunday's program was probably the best so far in the current season of Sanders Theatre Concerts, at least from the standpoint of technical perfection. Georges Laurent demonstrated his marvelous precision and control of the flute by playing three difficult virtuoso numbers in succession. The Mozart quartet, K. 285 and the Roussel Serenade, Op 30 were played in combination with a small string ensemble; the Three Pieces by Walter Piston was a woodwind trio,--flute, clarinet, and bassoon. This composition, one of Piston's earliest, has a humorous grotesqueness and vitality apparently much appreciated by the Cambridge audience...