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Premier Drew became more & more restless. As a Tory, he suspected Liberal King of making political hay for the Liberal Party. As a provincial premier, he thought the federal Government was milking rich Ontario. Then, a fortnight ago Quebec voted in the Quebec-first Union Nationale Party (TIME, Aug. 21). This means that the two provinces which have roughly two-thirds of Canada's wealth and people are now controlled by staunch States'-rights partisans...
...provinces Canadian voters went on the warpath last week. During Montreal's worst election riots in 25 years (seven shot, 40 injured, 74 arrested) Quebec voters tossed out the Liberal Government of that French-speaking province. In Alberta, voters halted the march of the socialist C.C.F...
...Breach Widens. Quebec's next Premier will be the Union Nationale's Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis. A political opportunist who talks like a fascist about Jews and harries labor unions, Duplessis was Quebec's Premier when World War II began. He took a beating when he tried to make trouble for Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King by calling an election on the issue of provincial rights in wartime. This time he shrewdly capitalized on Quebec's dislike of war, conscription, beat Liberal Premier Adélard Godbout...
...vote for Duplessis was a vote for a Quebec-first policy. But it was not a vote to burn all bridges between Quebec and the rest of Canada. The French Canadians rejected the appeal of the men who would like to make Quebec a second Eire. These extreme nationalists of the Bloc Populaire elected only four members...
...Frobisher Bay. They lie far north of what is likely to be the real northeast gateway to Europe: the great base at Goose Bay on Labrador's Hamilton Inlet. To bring Goose within easier reach of the continental U.S., the U.S. Army built a base at Mingan, Quebec, which increased the pay load, reduced the fuel load of planes flying through this gateway to Europe. Canada acquired this airfield too by the new deal...