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‘Genius And Dictator’ ere Duplessis Labels

PS Post - dev was anti - Duplessis feeling. in night customer of the Montreal| He grew up jin a political war elopments and! sis was first of ali the builder of : ‘ : : ; : ma ; ,|der which more than $200,000,000/ mounting budgets favored a far- Montreal and Quebec . where| village of Mysini in eastern Crete By THE CANADIAN PRESS to high religious or civil rank} Forum where Montreal Cana-| mosphere. Two uncles e i ai hing buildi new roads, bridges, schools, hos- rapid growth and uncovered emetery Sean called Maurice Duplessis} and took many verbal swipes at|diens of the National Hockey| members of the legislature—one bas ) to farmers - siice are. pitals. He is Sees are 8 © ean ie

a political genius and saviour of Quebec. Others called him a dictator. Some—hailed him as a while others de

crushed foes.

He. made no bones about his views on government affairs. He called the system of letting out tenders for contracts “disguised hypocrisy.” He said of - govern- ment purchases it was his policy to encourage ‘our friends first” and to buy elsewhere when nec- essary.

He said his government paid the highest retail prices for many goods because it believed in en- couraging small business, as well

. as big wholesale organizations. : : ___ | tion defeat, and turned himself | Special delivery service available between 8:30 |. In the 1956 election campaign,| His standard election campaign | into a master of politics. | DILLON & SPILLETT LTD od re aan ry . he told voters in one riding they | Platform was’ based on provincial} A victir of diabetes, he ate oe, ° | a.m. 700 a.m. if your paper is late — or melid wat oot 2 ed bridge | autonomy. Some opponents called | simply and observed regular hab- CHICK HATCHERY missed.

unless they elected a Union Na- tionale candidate to the legisla-

high-placed persons who «dared to disagree with him.

He chided French premiers about the instability of their gov-

written statement flayed Can- ada’s federal goveremest lead- ers. e As attorney - general, he ex- pressed dimpleasere with deci- sions of the Supreme Court of Canada in cases which felt in- volved Quebec's judicial author- ity. However, he quietly paid court-ordered damages for car celling the liquor permit of Frank Roncarelli, ‘Montreal rest- aurant owner who put up bail for arrested members of the Wit- nesses of Jehovah sect.

his autonomy ery “‘poliical auto-

He was a New "York Yankees baseball fan and at one time dis- appeared from his office every autumn to attend the world ser- ies. He was a regular Saturday

League performed on weekends.

His spoken French had an earthy flavor responsible for part of his popularity with voters and

slight accent and French turn of phrase.

In his younger days he was a hard-living, hard - driving politi- cian who once joked that he would trade 200 years of purga- tory for a few years of political power. He smoked cigarets, drank champagne and his good looks attracted the ladies. —

DIABETES SUFFERER

He gave up alcohol in 1942, three years after his Union Na-. tionale, party's only general elec-|

its though he got only about six

The institution of the plain- clothes guard dated back to times when threatening letters found their way into Mr. Duples- sis’ mail.

Mr. Duplessis was born at Trois-Rivieres April 20, 1890. His

ber of the Quebec legislature for eight years.

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sat on the government benches with the Liberals when Mr. Du- plessis was first elected—and a sister married the son of J. A. Bureau, lo

Rivieres’ and lat . senator.

Mr. Dusletiie cf” Marpoiition teeth in municipa! elections, working for a Liberal. When: he ran as a Conservative in the 1923 provincial election, the 33-year-

old Duplessis went down to de-

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father was a conservative menr| short

| Bureau, long-time Liberal mem-| ber of the Commons for Trols-|

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hours sleep after his busy day.!

from Conservative leader to leadef of a coalition which he

campaign with a remark about “participation” interpreted as in- dicating opposition to the war ef-

called }'Union Nationale was a_| fort.

The two most talked - about pieces of legislation to emerge from his 1936-39 administration were the Farm Credit: Act, un-

1937, and the Padlock Law, which empowered the attorney-general to order any premises padiocked for one year if he was satisfied they were used as Cemmunist

law has been ruled invalid:

DEFEAT BY LIBERALS Federal Liberals joined forces with the provincial Liberal party to defeat the Duplessis oo ment a few weeks after out- break of the Second World War.

Quebec voted Liberal on’ that occasion but elected Mr. Duples- sis’ Union Nationale in 1944 when the war was in its closing stages.

His government enacted un- usual and drastic legislation—es- tablishing a redefinition of free dom of worship aimed at re- atricting the activities -of Jeho-

» & provincial lot- tery, television censorship, news- @rint controls—but ‘much of it re- mains a dead letter.

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His anti-margarine legislation, in effect for the last seven years, was held up as evidence that the Union Nationale government con- centrates its attention on rural constituencies.

A BUILDER To Quebec voters, Mr. Duples-

ssociated with -pro-

gress and development. He was

the man who gave Quebec a flag) ——

+a white cross on an azure field

with four white fleurs-de-lis. Ungava's gi

St. Lawrence River te carry elee- tricity to the dormant Gaspe Pen- insula; roads that opened the northern regions’ of barren Chi- bougamau and sparsely-inhabited Lake Sf. John to an era of boom: ing growth—these were achieve- ments of the Duplessis adminis- tration.

Rural districts with new high- ways and school overwhelmingly supported the premier but there

given rise to increased social and labor problems.

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It was only in recent years,| On Wednesdays, he left his;

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elsewhere to new coods | or hos- pitals.

“If you-approve, let_us_ know by your vote,” he said.

His system worked.

He was the first Quebec pre- mier to serve five terms of office | —four of them consecutive. His

| absented . himself during legisla- ture sittings leaving the conduct

of affairs to subordinates. . NO HEIR APPARENT

From time to time, the men- tion of an heir to his leadership spread around but the premier gave the talk no encouragement.

Different names cropped up. at,

oneer suite in the Chateau | ac _at Quebec and ac- companied by a provincial police | officer in plain clothes attended | ~ 6 a.m. mass at the Roman Cath-| lic basilica. I

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