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...were three contenders for the post of chief surgeon at the new Hôtel-Dieu in Sorel. One, a native of Quebec, was licensed long ago by the provincial College of Physicians and Surgeons, had served overseas in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. The second, Dr. Georges Montel, a native of France, got a quickie license from the college only last September. He also had a war record: he served the Vichy government. The third, a local doctor pinch-hitting as head surgeon, was brushed aside. Last month the Sorel hospital turned down the veteran, hired Collaborator Montel...
...Montel had entered Canada illegally two years ago, had escaped deportation through pull in high places (TIME, Oct. 18). Only last week did Quebec doctors and the Canadian Legion hear that he had won his new job at a veteran's expense...
...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...
...Montel had friends in high places in France; before long they were in touch with their friends in high places in Quebec, in Ottawa and in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. To save Montel from being returned to France and retried on collaboration charges, the Canadian friends built a little fire under the federal cabinet. Aware that Montel's deportation might set off a political uproar in Quebec, where, as in the case of De Bernonville, the collaborator could be portrayed as a victim of anticlerical Communists in postwar France, the federal cabinet decided to follow Bre'r Rabbit...
...Order in Council, unpublished because it was supposedly of no public interest, Montel got the right to stay in Canada, eventually become a citizen if he desired. Included in the order were two other Frenchmen: Dr. André Charles Emanuel Boussat and Julien Gaudens Labedan. A similar order is in the works for a fourth small-time collaborator, Jean Louis Hue. The government's rationalization: "Well, they're here. They've got jobs. Let them stay...