Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill got set for their eighth meeting of the war. Perhaps deliberately, their meeting place was one of the war's worst kept secrets. Even Broadway columnists seemed to know it. Last week they chanted: Quebec. The New York Post ran an article called "Some Reasons Why Quebec Would Be Ideal for Coming F.D.R.-Churchill Conference."* The conservative Associated Press, which scrupulously observes censorship, mentioned Quebec...
...London, "Dicky" Mountbatten, looking fit and showing no trace of an eye injury received in the jungle last spring, told at last why operations in his command had been so maddeningly slow: landing craft allocated to him after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...
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...
...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...