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...Race Track? The latest scandal was the forced resignation two weeks ago of Pearson's Minister Without Portfolio Yvon Dupuis. The youngest (38) man in the Cabinet, Dupuis was also one of the best campaigners and was extremely well connected to Quebec party bosses. Now Le Devoir and La Presse, two Montreal dailies, were full of stories that Dupuis had taken a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters get a franchise in his home district. All Pearson will say publicly is that he asked Dupuis, who loudly proclaims his innocence, "to relinquish his position." Pearson...
Churchill was one of the "Big Three" who directed the Allies' war efforts. He and President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 signed the Atlantic Charter in 1941. Later Churchill met with other Allied leaders at Casablanca, Tehran, Quebec, and Yalta, and urged them to demand the unconditional surrender of Germany and to set up a United Nations Organization...
...Spanish Steps. A shy, pale, hulking figure, "Bernie" Lonergan is a much-storied underground legend among Catholic intellectuals. Born in Buckingham, Quebec, near the Ontario border, he decided to enter the Jesuits at 17, studied at his society's Heythrop College near Oxford and at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University. He spent 13 years teaching theology at Jesuit seminaries in Canada before moving to "the Greg" in 1953. There he follows a life as precisely organized as his thought. He teaches or writes from 8 until lunch, and after his siesta takes an hour-long walk that never...
...expected that the five Conservatives on the flag committee would vote accordingly. Four did - but not Quebec's Théogène Ricard, and the final committee vote was 10-4 (the chairman would vote only in case of a tie). Further more, all ten Quebec Conservatives in the House of Commons appear fed up with Diefenbaker's obstructionist tac tics at a time when pressing legislation is awaiting Parliamentary action. After hearing the committee report, they cau cused and announced that they will go their own way, supporting the com mittee flag...
...Time for Work. In Quebec, too, there seemed to be the realization, at least among its leaders, that now was the time for work and conciliation. Last week, after Elizabeth returned to Britain, Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage turned up in Ottawa for a meeting with Pearson and Canada's nine other provincial premiers. The subject was a request that Britain give up its formal, though purely ceremonial, right to approve all amendments to Canada's constitution. The request itself was certain to be approved, but in earlier meetings, Lesage had quibbled over the new formula...