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By MARK FRANK

, —OTTAWA.

OUIS St. Laurent, minis-
| ter of external affairs

and the white-haired boy of
the Liberal Party now being
groomed for the Number 1
position on the front-line
government benches, makes
interesting reading as a former
member of the big money frat-
arnity.

Slated to take over from Prime
Minister Mackenzie King after
the next national convention of
the party, St. Laurent’s back-
ground as a one-time corporation
tawyer and a director of 11 im-
portant companies is in startling
contrast to King’s own lack of
such direct connections.

In answers filed recently to
questions about cabinet members
and their corporation connect-
tions, Prime Minister King’s
secretary, Norman Robertson,
wags particularly careful about
underlining the fact that King
was not and never had been a
director of a corporation. :

When King steps down, it will
be the end of an era indeed, as
some writers have noted. For
ito his boots—barring an up-
yt— will step St. Laurent with
a long string of formerly-held
directorships gilding his record.

St. Laurent, of course, had the
good sense and “decency” to
resign his directorships on De-
cember 15, 1941, when he “sever-
ed” his tie-up with:

Les Prevoyants du Canada;
Administration and Trust Com-
pany; Quebec Apartments Ltd.;
Gatineau Power Company;
Rocky City Tobacco Company
Ltd; Bank of Montreal; Met-
ropolitan Life Insurance Com-
pany; Ltd.; Individual
Acceptance Corporation; PF.
erault Limitee; and Stand-
ard Investments Ltd.

Some of St. Laurent’s fellow

members of the government still
bolding down directorships are:

Minister of National Revenue
James J. McCann, with Capital
Trust, which merged with Guar-
antee Trust in May, 1947, and

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Finance Minister D. C. Abbott,
the man who had harsh words
for housewives seeking relief
from high prices, is still a direc-
tor of the Winisk Company Ltd.,
Sherbrooke Machinery Invest-
ments Ltd. Charnie Company
Ltd., and Clemenceau Arizona
Company Ltd. He resigned from
Montreal Industries Ltd. and
Valleyfield Silk Mills Ltd. in
1946.

Secretary of State Colin Gib-
son, is a director of Canadian
Power and Paper Investments
Ltd. His parliamentary assistant
Hugues Lapointe is a director of
the Quebec newspaper Le Soleil.

Parliamentary assistant to the
finance minister R. W. Mayhew
is a director of Sidney Roofing
and Paper Company Ltd. and
National Paper Box Ltd. He is
said to be a millionaire in his
own right.

To complete the picture of
Who's Who in corporations on
government benches, there is
Hon. W. M. Robertson leader of
the government in the Senate. He
is president and director of Pro-
vincial Motors Ltd., Halifax.

‘LOUIS ST. LAURENT

He resigned his directorships
in eleven corporations in 1941.

Zilliacus calls for a stand

—LONDON.

A CLEAR statement by British

workers that they will not
fight a war ‘on the side
of American capitalism and im-
perialism against the workers
of Europe and the workers of
the Soviet Union” is called for
by Labor M.P. Konni Zilliacus.

tureats to Russia as “madness.”

Conditions in eastern Europe
today, he says, compare favor-
ably with the “hell of corrup-
tion, violence, terror, abject pov-
erty and despair contrasted with
shameless profiteering, into
which Britain and America have
plunged the unhappy people of
Greece.”

President Will Lawther of the
National Union of Mineworkers
has already stated that the mem-
bers of his union would not
support an anti-Soviet war.

Zilliacus charges that Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin shares
Winston Churchill’s “fanaticism

and obsession” against commun-
ism. He describes recent British

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