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Ernest Lapointe was a national figure as envoy to London, Geneva and Canberra, as Acting Prime Minister and a power behind the Administration; yet he remained a native son from whom Quebec expected-and got-special attention to provincial interests...
...spot as Minister of Justice in World War II, he was accused of Fascist methods in enforcing the occasionally unfathomable Defense of Canada regulations. Because he spoke out for a declaration of war and strong support to Britain, rabidly anti-British groups in Quebec called him "Judas Lapointe." Tory imperialists claimed that he and Mackenzie King purposely slowed up the war effort. But when the chips were down in 1940, Ernest Lapointe's threat to resign if Quebec did not back the Government's war policy did more than anything else to drive the antiwar Nationale (Lapointe called...
...thousands of French Canadians filed past his body lying in state in the provincial legislature at Quebec city, a disturbing thought ran through many a mind: there was no one to replace him. Louis Alexandre Tascherau was one possible candidate-but he was 73. Quietly competent Joseph Adelard Godbout, Premier of Quebec, was another-but he was inexperienced in national politics...
...Conservatives could not have picked a more conservative leader. Nor could they have chosen one more heartily against Mackenzie King. To keep the support of the potent, close-knit French political bloc in Quebec and Ontario, Mackenzie King has soft-pedaled the question of conscription for overseas service, which in the last months has been brought up with increasing vigor by the all-out-for-Britain citizens of the prairie Provinces and the West. Canadian businessmen oppose the excess-profit taxes, the regulations, the price ceilings that the wartime Government has set. And Canadian labor resents wage ceilings quite...
Died. Foxhall Parker Keene, 74, onetime leading U.S. poloist, member of the first U.S. international polo team in 1886; at Ayer's Cliff, Quebec...