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...Quebec's highhanded Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis served an ultimatum on the pulp and paper companies in his province: either cut back newsprint prices for the Quebec press by Jan. 10 or face government controls. Last week, when the deadline passed, Duplessis made public a bill designed to harness Quebec's billion-dollar pulp and paper industry with some of the toughest controls ever imposed on Canadian business in peacetime...
Under the law, expected to pass almost automatically in the Duplessis-controlled legislature, the pulp and paper companies will be under the complete domination of a four-man government commission. Newsprint exports will not be affected (said Duplessis: "I don't care how much they charge outside Quebec"). But paper prices for Quebec newspapers will be rolled back immediately to the September 1955 level of $117-$119 a ton, where they stood before the last $4-a-ton increase. After that the board will set prices and quotas for deliveries to every Quebec publisher, and failure by the paper...
...Germany is a memorandum written by the late fellow traveler Harry Dexter White, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and later exposed as a tool of the Communists. It told how Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. came back to Washington in the late summer of 1944, after the second Quebec Conference. At Quebec, Morgenthau and White had got the initials of Roosevelt and Churchill on the Morgenthau plan, designed to reduce Germany to a "pastoral" state. White noted that Prime Min ister Churchill first opposed the plan, then apparently came around to it, and that Churchill upbraided the reluctant Anthony...
...other Canadian might have appeared tomorrow--Dartmouth captain Abner Oakes, a native of Quebec. But Okes injured his ankle severely in a game against Northeastern early last month and has been sidelined for the season...
...horrible having to leave Herrick there alone. I went out through the window and around the cottage smashing all the windows with a wastepaper basket and hollering 'fire'," Coolidge continued. "But I couldn't get back." He was praised by Quebec provincial police for his rescue attempts...