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Quebec Strongman Maurice Duplessis lay buried less than a week, but already the government of French Canada was taking on the easier, more tolerant attitude of Premier Paul Sauvé, 52, the longtime Duplessis lieutenant who was hand-picked by Le Chef to succeed. COMPLETELY NEW CLIMATE IN QUEBEC, headlined Montreal's Duplessis-hating Le Devoir...
...Sauvé was first elected to the Quebec legislature in 1930, taking a seat his father had held since 1907. In the 1944 election he piled up a record majority from 3,000 miles away in Normandy-where he was a lieutenant colonel in Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal. He made his reputation as the super-efficient minister of social welfare and youth. He is a natty bon vivant who made a million on the stock market...
...first acts in office, Sauvé took steps to consolidate himself as the new Chef, eying his Union Nationale party's first big test in expected elections next spring. From the treasury he sprang $16.5 million to build old couples' homes and aid 63 private high schools across the province. (Twenty of the schools never had received grants before because Duplessis enigmatically decided to ignore them.) Affably, Paul Sauvé set out to woo Quebec newsmen, who often feuded with Duplessis. He named a press attache "so the public can quickly be informed.'' And he quickly...