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...Harriman was at the Atlantic Charter meeting with Churchill and Roosevelt, and at their later conference in Washington; in 1942 he was with Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, with Churchill and Stalin in Moscow; in 1943 he was with Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca, in Washington and in Quebec; with Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov in Moscow; with Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang in Cairo, and with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran; in 1944 he was with Stalin, Churchill and Eden in Moscow; in 1945 with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Yalta, Harry Hopkins and Stalin in Moscow...
...Chicago, Daily News Editor-Publisher James S. Knight yelped: "Gouge!" In Quebec City, Emile Castonguay, Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers' Association president, snapped: "No justification!" The outcry on both sides of the border was caused by the fact that Canada's St. Lawrence Corporation, Ltd. had increased newsprint prices $5 a ton, topping (by $2) the alltime high of $130 charged after World War I. Other Canadian newsprint mills were expected to follow suit, as they have in the past...
...political tide beginning to turn against Canada's long-dominant Liberal Party? Politicians wondered last week after four hotly contested by-elections in Quebec and New Brunswick ridings that were regarded as Liberal strongholds. The Liberals won only one of the by-elections in their oldtime form. In the second their majority was sharply cut and in the third the Liberal nominee barely managed to win. In the fourth by-election, the opposition Tory candidate won a seat the Liberals had held for 22 years...
...Quebec-usually as solidly Liberal as Georgia is Democratic-the returns gave Liberal politicos far more to worry than to cheer about. In one riding, where the party's 1953 winning margin was 12,591, their margin was reduced to 3,203. In another district, where no Tory candidate had come close since 1911, the lead seesawed for hours before the Liberal candidate finally slid in front by 562 votes. In the one Quebec riding where the Liberal majority was normal, it was a question whether the appeal of the party or the luster of the candidate...
About his trip to the United States, Bachman commented: "I came by the back door. Instead of landing in New York where most visitors go, I came to Cambridge by way of Quebec...