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...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, 900 of them would pay $2.00 to eat gumbo creole and tenderloin steak, toast Mr. King in water (since the war, King has felt that liquor is out of place). Emil Ludwig, biographer of Bismarck, Napoleon and Franklin Roosevelt, would also publish a 62-page study of Mr. King's career. It described him as Mr. King hoped history would remember him-the great conciliator of Canada's contrary elements...
...Prime Minister has retreated more & more into the book-lined attic study at his home, Laurier House in Ottawa. This is the real center of Canada's Government. He is at work there at 9 (and except for the daily Cabinet meeting and Parliament) he is still there at 11 o'clock at night. His most constant companion is an Irish terrier, Pat. The only man who calls him by a given name is Franklin Roosevelt (he calls him "Mackenzie...
...years as Prime Minister, Laurier had ruled Canada and the Liberal Party. Under him Canada had grown to nationhood. Bourassa approved when Laurier compelled Britain to acknowledge Canada's autonomy. But when Laurier sent Canadian contingents to fight in the Boer War, Bourassa turned against...
Unholy Alliance. Bourassa's sudden reappearance in the news evoked memories of a great figure in Canadian history. Thirty years ago Nationalist Bourassa formed an "unholy alliance" with anti-nationalist Tories to defeat French Canada's No. 1 statesman, Sir Wilfred Laurier...
...When Laurier sought re-election in 1911 on a platform of tariff reciprocity with the U.S., he found himself denounced by Bourassa's nationalists as an imperialist, by the Tories of English Canada for disloyalty to Britain. Defeated and embittered, Laurier retired to the Opposition, never regained office, died in 1919. Bourassa's nationalist faith deeply affected French Canadian thought. Although he finally quit politics in 1935, he emerged in World War II to fight conscription as bitterly as he had fought the sending of Canadians to South Africa...