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life to build a „future Canadian
Prime Minister
The son of a, general storekeep-
er, he had been born do Compton,
a small Quebec town near the Ver-
mont border, Compton, had been
settled by I.oyeliste wiho had fled
to Canada during the Revolution-
IVY
evolutionaxy War, and St. Laurent grew up
in a transplanted New England
tradition of plain living, and high
thinking, To his French father the
boy spoke Drench; to his Irish
mother, English. Not until he
reached' hie teens did he realize
that there were two official lang-
uages in •Canada. "I thought," he
says, "that everybody spoke to his
father in French and his mother in
English-"
Young St. Laurent studied law
at Laval University in Quebec. By
the time he was 30 he had estab-
lished himself as one of the most
successful lawyers in the province.
Nothing St. Laurent has done or
ever will do can be judged apart
from the quiet influence of his
'wife. At a house party, when he
was 24, the slim and studious
young lawyer met Jeanne Renault,
by common consent the prettiest
girl in Quebec. Her father insisted
that his 16 children be home at
nine o'clock every night, and there
were always heavy ranks of ohap-
erones on every, side. 'Neverthe-
less," says Madame St. Laurent,
"we managed to meet."
They have five children and. 12
grandchildren. A thoroughly do-
mesticated, man could ask no more
than such a family, high success in
his profession, the big, bustling
house, plenty of bridge, golf and
fishing, a quiet office; a club where
men talked like philosophers All
this must be given up, if King's in-
vitation to be Foreign Minister
were accepted. But St. Laurent felt
that it was his duty to accept. 1
When they returned to Ottawa
Madame St. Laurent once more
found herself in a three-room flat:
Every morning he rose early,
cooked ,breakfast for the Foreign
Minister. Before nine be walked up
Parliament Hill, a quiclkmoving
figure neatly dressed in a dark
suit which was likely to be rather
old. At one o'clock he and his wife
lunched together in the parliament
tary restaurant.
In the afternoon. when St. Lau-
ren took his seat in the Commons,
she sat opposite him in the gallery.
Every day you would see. there a
dark little woman, still handsome,
her black hair now streaked with
gray, her famous brown eyes as
lustrous as ever, her accent frank-
ly French. She never left the
House while her husband was in
it. Hour after hour, through in-
terminable debate, she waited for
her Louis to speak and then went
with him to dinner. Or if he work-
ed at night in his office—often un-
til two in the morning, even on
Saturdays and Sundays—she would
wait up tor him in the lonely fiat,
with a not snack ready for his re-
turn. They had no time for Ot-
tawa's round of social affairs.
It was a dull life for her, a kill-
ing
illing life for him. broken only by
occasional trips to United Nations
meetings.. And: it all seemed to be
leading nowhere.
But. by .last, summer, the Foreign
Minister's blunt speeches in the
United Nations, so 'unlike King's
caution, had begun to register with
the Canadian people. When King
announced his retirement and the
Liberal Party called its August
convention, the first since 1919, the
choice of St. Laurent as leader was
routine. He had made no campaign,
refused to seek a single delegate.
To the last moment he said only
that he would accept the job if it
were offered but would refuse if,
at the convention, his French-Cana-
dian
rench-Cana
U ON EXP, IT
d4aln background 4eeE30llltetlY `to
divide the party and eatifen,
St, Laurent's, prepafatiq»s Toa
the decisive ballot CQh$ist@dr;'ot a
ham sandwich, a bottle of rink ae
the back of an envelope .Ziatieg
his snack a few mini/tea bakdee he
was called to the pletforn}; lee
&crawled ,. a few nates On the. •en-
velope. The simplicity of: 'rhe
speech, in contrast with 410 „two
opponents' orations, his torte ot a
friend in a gathering of fl'ieittls—
the very opposite of his "rather
classical parliamentary noel ete—
was just what the comes:11 M *ent-
ed to hear. More important, it'rave.s;
just what thef public wanted.' to
hear. St. Laurent reeived 'an ov-
erwhelming majority of, the'`Yotes
from all parts of the counlrye,
As for the new leader, lie, tjrgot
all about the .reception aseene'bled
in his honor after the convention
and went off to dinner, with, his
wife.
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On Nevember 15 last, St. Laurent
was sworn in as Prime MIAOW.
That night he worked in hlei,oftice
until half past seven. When he
started home, the elevator was
waiting for him, an aged mean,' at
the controls: St. Laurent asked; hint
if he stayed on duty as late as that
every night. The man replied that
he had orders always' to Walt' for
the Prime Minister. ".After this,"
said St. Laurent, "you go hetne
with everybody else. I can walk,"
He and his wife moved into; a
five -room fiat in the same apart-
ment house and went on as:usual
—this though Madame St. Laurent
was Canada's first "first lady" in
years, after two bachelor prime
ministers.
Up to now St. Laurent has writ-
ten his own speeohes, or the frag-
mentary notes on which they are
based. In international conferenc-
es, when he must make instant de-
cisions without consulting .anyone,
he works fast. Attending United
Nations sessions, for instanee,, he
may take along an expert in his
automobile and ,before the car has
reached the meeting place he has
digested„the facts of the day's bus-
in.ess and is ready to deal with
them in conference extemporan-
eously. No other such mental en-
gine has been known in Canadian
affairs in the present generation.
St. Laurent learns quickly. In his
first radio talk as Prime Minister
Rt. Hon. Louis S. St. Laurent, M.P.
Prime Minister of Canada
he broke through the ministerial
front. His voice was not the par-
liamentarian's, but the cheerful
voice and the colloquial sentences
of a neighbor who had dropped in
for a chat. To find a human being
like themselves at the head of the
State, after 30 years of austere re-
cluses, was a new experience to
the voters.
Canadians had thought of him as
the constitutional lawyer, the soph-
isticated and dashing figure of
clubs and board rooms. But he is,
in fact, pure homespun, a simple
man most at home among small-
town folk.
Great decisiions, long postponed,
lay ahead of St. Laurent. For a
long time he watched' the United
Nations at first hand failing as an
instrument to enforce peace. He
chafed month after month at the
impotence imposed by Russian
veto. Last spring, St. Laurent op-
ened fire. In the Canadian Parlia-
ment, without warming, he propos-
ed that Canada join the Brussels
pact, erect a North Atlantic alli-
ance and fight for Western Durdpe
against any aggressor.
Pressed for details• late one night
he stood up in the House of Com-
mons. without a note to guide him
and laid his policy on the line—no
veetrY,t4tlon'e in. the 4Yer$aeaO 'COM,
flit neat, a 1lnop'holes, 'mho house
gasped, 0,4nada had never gone so
far *Ore.
Whe4 a powerful Freeel -Ca far
than delegation protested{ to, biro.
against oyerseaa rcottunitpp,Qpblts
`,s h 11 night encourage Wet', St,
leanrent . retorted that only Com-
mitments could p1,event war, 'To
asslime that he wasz.for war be-
cause he favored commitments, he
said, was like saying' that a matt
was for appendicitis hecauso her
savored surgery. That phrase swept
from., coast to coast.
The St. Laurent ,policy, etpetch
ing eastward , across the:. Atlantic,
stretches also southward across
the 49th parallel. He proposes noth-
ing less than a total' overhaul; oP
North America's daily business, the
coordination of the eoonomio pow-
er
power of Canada and the United
State.
More than a year ago King de-
clared in general for policy of
„real reciprocity” with the United
States. At most that could, mean
free trade. At least it means a dra-
stic reduotion of the tariff dam.
Which has obstructed, y lueQ the
American Qivil War, the movement'
Of goods north and soothalogg,the
natnrall cha'nuels of •the cohtilnents.
This vision'has 1ong; been held—r
and resisted --in Canada. It- hoe
peen held 'et times, het usually/ by
e, small minority, in tike:' ,t1"t4`,
States. It is St. Lauregt's peelelien;
fortune to reach power ,at a Nook.
eat when the•vision. at last hats `e
come, practical politics and ;h,e may
bo able to bring it .to lite.•.
it will be, for the .American pec',
pie to accept er reject a.'T,a1lres t'a
oftew. Whateve{, else he may dio,;'he
brings them: to the brink of &.great
dec;laios —perhaps, considering tike
'Stakes, ono of the greatest trading
decisions they have ever faced.
BBut the :.•: most important' and me -
during thing represented by the
emergence of St. Laurent at ,utile;
time is Canada's coming of age in
a, new international society'. What
happens to the continental and
trans-Atlantic movement, in which
he speaks for Canada and ,which
he has done so much to launch,
Will be felt aa far ,i -it the future as
any Canadian er AMerieen can.nee.
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