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...Headquarters Needed. Louis St. Laurent was a topnotch Quebec lawyer and political novice when he was picked by Mr. King in 1941 for the Justice Ministry. His dignity, sincerity and all-round ability soon won him a national reputation as a statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: King's Man | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Although he had long known that he was King's man for the Liberal leadership, he never acted like a candidate. He spent the pre-convention weekend at his Quebec City home with his grandchildren. For three days last week he followed his usual routine in the external affairs office. Even when the convention got underway he spent most of his time seated dutifully on the platform. Occasionally and a little self-consciously, he drifted through the ornate lobby of the Chateau Laurier-the closest Ottawa came to a smoke-filled room-chatting with friends and newsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: King's Man | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Liberals figure that in the end, Louis St. Laurent will be their best salesman. He is respected in Quebec (where the Liberal Party has been overwhelmed by the Union Nationale), admired elsewhere as a man who combines all that is best in French and English-speaking Canada. He symbolizes the unity which his nomination speech emphasized. For Louis St. Laurent, whose father was a French Canadian merchant and whose mother was first generation Irish, that is not hard. It is often said that when he was young, he never even knew that there were two official languages in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: King's Man | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Vanquished. In Quebec's gloomy Reform Club, provincial Liberals surveyed their shattered organization, at its lowest ebb in 50 years. Duplessis' victory had pushed any hopes of dominion-provincial tax agreement off into the dim future. Along with Tory George Drew's recent victory in Ontario and Drew's open bid for national leadership, it gave the Drew-Duplessis axis a new and potent meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Gosh, That Maurice! | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Duplessis victory threw this week's Liberal Convention in Ottawa wide open. Many a Liberal still figured that Louis St. Laurent-was the man to swing waning Quebec Liberal strength back into line. Not so Quebecker and onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, who had managed the Liberal campaign in Quebec, and seen St. Laurent in action. At week's end Chubby Power announced that he would be available for the Liberal leadership himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Gosh, That Maurice! | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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