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...This is Colonel Zoraguine of the Third Soviet Army Corps operating in the province of Quebec. The first elements of the Fourth Ukrainian Armored Division are in the heart of Montreal ... All resistance is useless. The Red Army is victorious on all Canadian fronts...
...sons-and a daughter, Forrest Percival Sherman was born to the headmaster of a small school in Reeds Ferry, N.H. (pop. 265) and to a mother whose forebears were John and Priscilla Alden. Shermans had fought with the colonists against the Dutch, gone with Benedict Arnold to Quebec...
...dinner, he stayed on for a year. The Stranger was a great yarner and a great toper but he was also a tremendous worker and he more than earned his keep. Before he left Monk's Inlet, a tiny farm hamlet on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, he had left his mark on the lives of all who came in contact with him. Old Widower Beauchemin loved him more than he loved his own lazy son, and Neighbor Angelina Desmarais had fallen madly in love with...
...news broke over Canada's biggest (955,000) archdiocese like a stroke of midwinter lightning. But far from dispelling the cloud of rumors, it stirred up fresh ones. Among the most persistent: that the archbishop had really been eased out, partly at the instigation of Quebec's highhanded, labor-hating Premier Maurice Duplessis. The two men had clashed sharply when Archbishop Charbonneau and the local clergy sided with members of the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor in the bitter Asbestos strike (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949 et seq.) even after the strikers barricaded the town and fought Duplessis...
Just how far the church cared to go in dispelling painful conflicts remained to be seen in the appointment of Archbishop Charbonneau's successor. Meanwhile there were unofficial reports in Quebec City that a pastoral letter, signed by all the bishops of the province and approving the Social Action principles of Quebec's liberal clergy, was being prepared for reading in the churches of the province within a month. That would strengthen the stand of such other pro-labor prelates as the outspoken Rev. Georges-Henri Levesque, dean of Laval University's faculty of social sciences, Sherbrooke...