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Secret Deal. Prime Minister King's chances of reelection, at first dim, were suddenly looking up. There was a reason, involving politically potent Quebec, without whose votes a party can scarcely hope...
...rumor rustled through the narrow, cobblestoned streets of the historic city: plans were being made for housing the new League of Nations in Quebec...
Enterprising young Armand Viau, lately hired to whoop up the city's qualities as an industrial center, had been told, he said, that a delegation would look over Quebec this summer. He had blueprints of great, new ultra-modern buildings ready to show them. The architecture naturally would be Old Quebec. There would be three large buildings costing $10,000,000, a hotel and suburban houses...
There was a certain vagueness in Promoter Viau's story. Blueprints? It would not be correct, he said, to make them public before the officials saw them. The site? Ah, to name it would start a frightful land boom. But the fact remained that he had got Quebec City off the mark first in the race for the New Geneva...
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's clam-like, bachelor Prime Minister, was asked by Maxime Raymond, leader of Quebec's British-hating Bloc Populaire: how much did Canada have to pay for last September's six-day Quebec (Churchill-Roosevelt) Conference? The to-the-penny answer...