Canada at War: SASKATCHEWAN: Revolution, Ltd.

The socialists won Saskatchewan last week and jarred all Canada. The only vigorous socialist party in North America, Canada's Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, took 43 of 51 contested seats in the provincial legislature, lost only five to the Liberal Party of Dominion Prime Minister Mackenzie King. The Tories (Progressive Conservatives) did not win a single seat.*

Saskatchewan's next Premier and the head of Canada's first nominally socialist government will be bantam-sized, genial Tommy Clement Douglas, only 39, a onetime Baptist minister and linotype operator (TIME, May 22). In the province where the C.C.F. was born some ten years ago, he can now...

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