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...Quebec City's Laval University, where he earned his law degree, Louis' work prompted the rector to make a flat prediction: "Le petit St. Laurent ira loin [Little St. Laurent will go far]." He won the Governor General's Medal and was offered a Rhodes Scholarship. Strong-willed young Louis, with plans already made to practice law, turned down the scholarship, went to work for one of Quebec's leading lawyers...
...After Laval. Frenchmen have known for a long time what many of them like to forget: that, in case of a war in which France and Russia found themselves on opposing sides, the French Communists would do their utmost to hamstring the French war effort. The novelty was that the comrades should flaunt their treasonable intentions so openly...
...National Assembly, a non-Communist deputy asked if Thorez was "a candidate for the post formerly held in this country, when occupied by a foreign army, by a certain Pierre Laval." The Assembly, of which Thorez is a member, summoned him to explain himself. He repeated almost word for word the statement he had made to the Central Committee. Another nonCommunist, referring to Thorez' notorious army desertion in 1939 and subsequent run-out to Moscow, interrupted him when he reached the phrase, "If later our country should be dragged . . . into a war," and finished the sentence...
Helsinki's non-Communist press last week welcomed back "the Paavo Nurmi of Finnish politics." Red newspapers damned the release of Tanner (whom they called "worse than Laval and Quisling"), and threatened "dire consequences." With a cautious eye on the Kremlin, bull-necked Premier Karl August Fagerholm, Tanner's most ardent disciple, did not immediately invite the old fire-eater back into the government. Tanner declared that he would retire to his farm near Helsinki, "to write books and raise forests." Before he left Helsinki, he had one more political pronouncement. "I am proud of the Socialist Party...
...partial answer could be given. Quebec law forbids the licensing of doctors convicted of a felony, and Montel was convicted of treason, in absentia, by French courts. But he was recommended for a license by Msgr. Ferdinand Vandry, Rector of Laval University, where he teaches surgery. And it was Msgr. Vandry who recommended him to the nuns who operate Sorel's Hôtel-Dieu...