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[Editor's Note: MI AL Laurent was chosen during the past week-end to Bead the Liberal Party of Canada, rag- ceeding Mr Mackenzie King. This article, written at the end of July, has just been received; It gives useful Information about a personality Hitle known here.]
CANADIAN
St. Laurent, a sixth-generation French-Canadian from Quebec, Is the one outstanding Canadian poin- eal gure produced by the last war. He had never been active, or even greatly interested, in politics before December 10, 1941, when, in answer
to a call from Mr King, he entered
the government Justice.
Minister 09
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At that time St. Laurent was one of the foremost Canadian barristers.
his incursion into politles meant a large personal sacrifice which he cheerfully made to assume some of
specialising in corporation law, and
the burdens of the war effort.
Tito-the man
who is challenging Stalin
Marshal Tito, Stalin's rival in Yugoslavia, has been, black- balled by the Kremlin on chargos of having dared to deviato from Kremlin policy..
In a speech subsequently, variously estimated to have fasted between eight and 10 hours, he accepted the challenge and dis- puted the charges.
His refusal to bond to the Kramlin is the biggest upsat Russian Communism has yet had to face.
Hero Brigadier Fitzroy Macloan, M.P., head of the British mission to Tito's partisans in 1943-5, describes the personality of this remarkable figure and the Intriguing situation that is de- veloping.
By BRIGADIER FITZROY MACLEAN, M.P.
Tita
Human experience shapes human character. The impact of events on One thing struck me imme- the individual cannot be left out of
It would Indeed
havo
ST dangled from my
parachute, swinging diately; Tito's readiness to dis- account slowly backwards and cuss any question on its merits been astonishing if Tito had emerged stirring your completely unchanged forwards in midair, the secluded and, if necessary, take a deci- at the end of those strenuous and Bosnian valley towards which I sion there and then. He seemed in outlook and stature. was descending looked dim and perfectly sure of himself; a mysterious in the pale light of principal, not a subordinate. To find such assurance, such indo pendence in a Communist, waa for me a novel experience.
the moon.
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The question is how far his war
has undermined experience mental habit painfully and rigorous- ly built up over twenty years. Which will prevail in the end?
Inde-
No less mysterious was the Liberals will
personality of the man I had come to find. All that I knew I was struck, too,, by the The humble functionary of the choose a new lender for themselves and a new Prime
of Tito was that he was sup, intense pride which he took in Kremlin? Or the guerilla leader, Minister for Canada early in
posed to be a Communist, and the successes of his partisans the great national Ogure? this was borne out by the red and in the fact that they owed August at the biggest political
Ho stepped into the shoes of Mr star, with its hammer and these successes to no one except convention in Canudu's history,
King's chief French-Canadian leu Bickle, stitched to the caps of themselves-not even Moscow.
clustered Three thousand delegates and tenant, Mr Ernest Lapolate, who had the partisans who party boosters from all parts of just died. Lapointe had been more round me when I landed.
than Minister of Justice he had the country will converge on been the politician responsible for Ottawa to select a successor to keeping Quchee in the Liberal fold; Prime Minister Mackenzie King, for the Tiberal administration in then, as it does Ottawa depended to draft a new Liberal Party
now, on almost colld support from platform, and to review the Quebec to maintain it in power. state of the party's organisa- tion.
MIL LE ST. LAURENT
As they thus write "finis" to one
ATMOSPHERE
Of fear, suspicion
PAST LIFE In goal, in exile
As the night wore on, our talk drifted away from the During the two and a half immediate military problems years I had spent in Russia which we had been discussing,
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was not long before St. Laurent before the war, I had encounter and Tito, unbending, told me was doing Lapointe's job in the ed many Communists, big and something of his past. political as well as the administrative little, from members of the Belda fact which is now one of the Politbureau to the NKVD spics chief things in favour of his candido-who trailed me wherever I went. ture. Many Liberals believe ha is
and keep the party in power.
port
Tito may capitulate yet. pendence, once forfelted, is hard to regain. But, so far, in his clash with the Cominform and with tho Soviot Communist Party, he has shown an independence Incompatible with the role of a mere puppet.
To the charge that he is a de- viationist, his answer has been that he is right and the others wrong.
FOLLOWERS Rally round him
has
To the suggestion that the Yurcalay Partisans had un CXRX- cerated idea, of their own achieve- ments during the war, ho replied with fresh panegyrics of their exploits. Finally, to the summons to "healthy elements" in Yugoslavia to overthrow him, he has responded by rallying his followers around him.
It had been the life of a pro fessional revolutionary, in and out of prison, in hiding, in exile; the only man who con hold Quebec All had one thing in common: the life of a loyal servant of the their terror of responsibility, Communist International. Of The
the their reluctance to think for this he made no secret. convention will see French-speaking, delegates solidly themselves, their blind, un- behind St. Laurent.
For 20 years after the Rus- He will also questioning obedience to a party have strong English-Canadian sup-line dictated by higher authori- sian Revolution he had occupied
ty, the terrible atmosphere of a responsible but relatively This is a far call from the abject the great Moscow St. Laurent is not actively seeking fear and suspicion which per- minor, place in the Communist confessions of the leadership, although other
treason trials; from the alacrity with vaded their lives. Was Tito hierarchy. Then in 1937 came which our own domestic Communists - powerful- party_men_are___ working hard in his interests. He announced going to be that sort of Com--the reward-for-his-loyalty, the change their whole line at a nod last autumn that he would accept the munist? It seemed only too crowning proof of his orthodoxy. from the Kremlin. leadership if the convention offered likely.
Gorkich, the Secretary-General And Indeed, Tito's it with
reasonable unanimity, but
He stands in his own warned that he would withdraw if
of the Yugosay Communist Party, different, Next evening, in the gather was found unworthy, and Tito was country at the bead of a large and ing darkness, after a journey appointed in his place with the task well-trained army, forged with his through wild mountain country, of bringing the party into the true own hands in the furnace of war, avoiding as far as possible areas path. regularly patrolled by enemy, I reached the ruined castle where the partisans had their headquarters high on a
his candidature. threatened to split
the party along racial lines.
On the other hand, Gardiner is not sparing himself in an aggressive campaign to obtain a majority at the convention.
era in the life of Canada's dominant political party and usher in a new He is the Minister who negotiated one, they will be labouring under the, the food contracts with Britain, is a shadow of the Dominion's General former premier of Saskatchewan, hill above the river. Election expected next year--an and has been in politics since 1914.
When he came to Ottawa in 1935 election which will test the Liberals' power to withstand the increasing as Minister of Agriculture it was strength of the Canadian Socialista. with the thought in mind that some day he might succeed to the Prime Mr King's decision to retire, after Ministership. He mado this too 29 years as leader of the party, pre- apparent, and incurred Mr King's cipitated the convention and threw displeasure. the party leadership
all open to comers
Months of jockeying for position by the various aspirants, both in the open and, more subtly, behind closed duars, have reduced the "feld" to four or five, with two members of the present ministry conceded to have the best chances.
They are the Secretary of State for External Affairs, Mr Louis Stephen St, Laurent, and the Minis- ter of Agriculture, Mr James Gar
fleld. Gardiner.
He la n rough-and-ready pollllclan, a Left Wing Liberal, while St. Lau- rent belongs to the Right Wing,
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St
religious issue forces Laurent to withdraw, It is be- lieved he will swing his support be- hind Hon, Paul Martin, Minister of National Heath and Welfare.
Martin' who is 45, is of French Canadian descent, but is from an English-speaking Ontario. contti- tuency. It is felt that he might be more accoptable to English Canada, and yet hold Quebec. Among "dark
the
A sentry, stepping from the shadows, challenged me, and then, on receiving the password, guided me through the crumbl ing walls to where a light was showing.
READINESS
To discuss matters
HOW HE ROSE To be world figure
It was from his position as leader branch of a small, illegal, remote of the party, kept underground by rigorous police repression, that Tito, carried onwards and upwards by that same "gale of the world" that was to sweep Mihailovich to his a very few destruction, was in years to rise to be a major dgure in international affairs.
caso
surrounded by men whose loyalty is to him personally.
One thing is certain, The pundits of the Kremlin cannot tolerate such insubordination with- out serious loss of authority.
DEADLY BLOW- To whole system
If they welcome an unrepentant Tito back into the fold on his own terms, they will be dealing a deadly blow to the doctrine of absolute in- fallibility on which their whole system depends.
It was this appointment, too, this ultimate recognition of his ortho.. doxy which, in the long run, was Nor can they abandon their con- to sow the seeds of the unorthodoxy trol over Yugoslavia without
crificing a vital strategical advant- with which he is now charged.
For as things turned out, it was
agc.
$-
Sitting under a tree, studying a map by the light of a flicker-
There remains another possibility ing lamp,, was a sturdy gray to Tito, as secretary of the party.
Tifo haired man dressed in plain that fell four years later the task a highly intriguing one.
the in may have been encouraged to act dark clothes. He rose and came of organising resistance to
as he did by the knowledge that forward to meet, me, his blue vaders of Yugoslavia.
there were dissident elements in the It was Tilo who, given this task, Kremlin and that his attitude, eyes alert.
showed himself capable of building though perhaps not officially ap He had straight, regular from nothing a guerilla force cap proved, would command powerful, a determined able of containing 15 enemy, divi- and in the long run possibly decisive,
support • We shook hands and sions,
St. Laurent is the odds-on favou rile, despite the fact that at 66 he is nearly two years older than Car- diner and far less of a politician. horses" In the race are Mr Douglas features and
He has strong popular support, and Abbott, aged 48, Minister of Finance; manner. the backing of many influential men Mr Brooke Claxton, aged 50, Minis-sat down. in the party including Mr King's. 1er of National Defence; Mr Stuart Actually he has been hoir-apparent Garson, aged 49, Premier of Muni aince November 1946, when Mr tobo; and Mr Angus Macdonald, King persuaded him to remain in aged 58, Primer of Nova Scotin.. the government rather than return None is thought to have much remunerative law chance while St. Laurent remains in his more
the race. practice.
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It was Tito, finally, who displayed If this is so, the present crisis in A partisan, his Schmelasser quaililos of military and political the affairs of the Cominform may bo sub-machine gun slung across leadership and skill which, already the first outward sign of a rift in the that ho Communist High Command, of an his back, brought a bottle of in 1943, left little doubt
and the movement at whose head ha internal confifet on the outcome of were stood must in the long run bo the which the future course of events in plum-brandy. Soon we deep in conversation.
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