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...When Quebec's Strongman Maurice Duplessis died last September, he left to his lieutenants as a legacy the most powerful political machine Canada has ever known. His Union Nationale passed first to longtime heir apparent, Paul Sauve...
Last week-after Sauve was cut down by a heart attack at 52-the Union Nationale went up for grabs among Duplessis' old lieutenants. By the time cigar smoke cleared, the party had weathered a Tammany brawl for the succession, and the big French Catholic Quebec province (pop. 5,000,000) had a new premier: Joseph Marie Antonio Barrette, 60, a Duplessis colleague for 23 years and Quebec's labor minister since...
...party that Antonio Barrette takes over is not the same one Maurice Duplessis bequeathed. Where Duplessis endlessly battled Canada's federal government with the cry of provincial autonomy, Sauve had already restored reason to Quebec's relations with Ottawa. He had also stolen the Liberal opposition's thunder by launching overdue reforms that would help shore the party for an expected spring election. His unexpected death after just 114 days in office set the Union Nationale adrift with no obvious leader, raised doubts whether the party could survive a struggle for power, and whether Sauve...
Died. Paul Sauve, 52, Quebec's longtime (1946-59) Minister of Social Welfare and Youth, who became Premier of Quebec on the death of Maurice Duplessis last September, relaxed Quebec's intransigence toward the Canadian federal government and Canada's English citizens; of a heart attack; in St. Eustache, Quebec...
...companies responsible for pouring $1 billion into developing the iron-ore lodes of Quebec and Labrador are U.S. controlled. U.S. Steel is spending $200 million to open a new mine, railroad, and port on the Gulf of St. Lawrence...