FRENCH CANADIAN TO BE DOMINION’S NEW PRIME MINISTER
(Rec. 9.10) OTTAWA, August 7 Hon. Mr Louis Stephen St Laurent, Canadian Minister of External Affairs, was named to-day as the successor to the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Mr MacKenzie King, and as the National Liberal Party Leader. Mr St Laurent will be the first French Canadian Prime Minister since 1919, when the late Sir Wilfred Laursen held the office. (Rec. 7.40) OTTAWA, Aug. 6 RETIRING PREMIER’S WARNING The Prime Minister of Canada, Mr MacKenzie King, in addressing the National Liberal Party Convention, said flatly, in his farewell speech, that he could not be drafted to continue as Leader of the, Party. He said that a new Leader must be chosen .with whom he would confer as 'o when to present his resignation as Prime Minister.. The time for this step, he added would have to take into consideration the international situation.
He told the Convention that the trend towards totalitarianism was. he believed, the most serious of the present day problems. He warned that “it may be that at any hour the free nations may be called upon again to defend freedom.”
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Grey River Argus, 9 August 1948, Page 5
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