One of the biggest turnouts of voters in Quebec history went to the polls last week and returned the eleven-year-old government of foxy, popular Liberal Premier Louis Alexandre Taschereau with a smashing majority. Even the Liberals were surprised.
Ever since 1897 the Province of Quebec has remained unflinchingly Liberal. Last year, however, the rest of Canada turned Conservative with a vengeance and swept Dominion Premier Richard Bedford Bennett into power on a Canada-First platform tinted ever so delicately with anti-U. S. sentiment. Many Quebeckers voted for Bennett. Conservative tacticians decided that...
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