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...miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. other provost officers, aided by Mounties, were staging another manhunt. In two cars and a truck they drove to the road's end at the foot of lonely Gros Cap hill. Then they trudged on snowshoes up the steep hill to a well-hidden, log-and-tar-paper shanty at the top. Outside, the officers pounced on five unshaven, bedraggled youths. Inside they found seven more, plus large stores of butter, canned goods, milk, cigarets, coffee, bread...
...twelve were Italian-Canadians. All were surly. When officers tried to take them aboard a train at Sault Ste. Marie, they resisted, smashed windows. They were finally handcuffed and bundled aboard. During the night, five managed to escape. One was recaptured at once. The other four hitchhiked, still handcuffed, into North Bay. Local police picked them...
...Jewish quarter around the rue Ste.-Croix de la Bretonnerie, the Germans had set up a ghetto. Only 10,000 of 100,000 Jews who used to live there still remained. They straggled out last week to meet American visitors. Broken by hunger, torture, humiliation, the yellow star of David newly torn from their sleeves, they were Paris' most sadly joyous beings...
...sleepy village of Ste. Claire (pop. 150) in rugged, sparsely settled Dorchester County went Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, a pink-cheeked opportunist who was once Premier of Quebec and would like to be again. He was there to address a typical pre-campaign meeting in Quebec, where all important political meetings are held on Sunday. Townspeople, farmers in from the country, all of them fresh from morning Mass, thronged to hear Maurice Duplessis make...
...simple and ugly: he sought to whip up anti-Semitism in strongly Catholic Quebec. To his Ste. Claire hearers, many of whom seldom if ever see a Jew, Duplessis hinted a horrendous plot by the International Zionist Brotherhood to establish 100,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe on Quebec's rolling fields. Opposition Leader Duplessis dragged in Premier Adélard Godbout's ruling Liberal Party, said that the Zionists had decided "to aid financially all Liberal candidates who would agree openly or secretly to support the plan in the House of Commons...