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APPENDIX E
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Full biographical information about Cana-
wide participation by Canada in world affairs
dian personalities of importance is for the
and in the North Atlantic defense system.
most part available in Who's Who in Canada,
Abbott, Douglas C.
and is not repeated here.
Minister of Finance. Abbott, a Montreal
Field Marshal the Rt. Hon. Viscount Alex-
lawyer, was elected to the House of Commons
ander of Tunis.
in 1940. He held his first ministerial post in
Governor-General of Canada since 1946.
1945 and was appointed to his present one in
Viscount Alexander, one of Britain's most
December 1946. He possesses a pleasing per-
brilliant generals of World War II, who di-
sonality, is conscientious, and has an intellec-
rected campaigns in France, Burma, North
tual grasp of problems. He tends, however,
Africa, and Italy, is the seventeenth Gov-
to explain or defend his moves in a rather
ernor-General of Canada. During the three
summary fashion and his critics complain
years that he has held this post his popularity
that he often brushes aside intelligent ques-
and prestige have been high.
tioning. Abbott, who seems in general to have
St. Laurent, Louis Stephen.
the confidence of the business community,
does not hesitate to take unpopular economic
Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the
measures when necessary, as evidenced by his
Liberal Party. Prime Minister St. Laurent's
program of import restrictions and his past
rise to political power has been remarkably
budgetary practices of creating surpluses by
swift: from his first entry into the govern-
high postwar taxation. Abbott's attitude to-
ment as Minister of Justice in 1941, to the Ex-
wards the US is friendly and cooperative.
ternal Affairs Ministry in 1946, and finally to
his present position in November 1948. The
Buck, Tim
great prestige he enjoys in all parts of the
Leader of the Labor Progressive Party (Com-
country, his ability, and the strength of his
munist). Born in England in 1891 and sent
party leadership were reflected in the over-
to work in a machine shop at the age of twelve,
whelming victory of the Liberal Party in the
Tim Buck relied for his education upon ex-
June 1949 general elections.
perience and the writings of Marx, Lenin, and
Born in Quebec province, Mr. St. Laurent is
Stalin. He has learned to be a skillful public
the second French-Canadian to become Prime
speaker, and observers have been impressed
Minister, and his leadership rallies the im-
by his appeal to reason, and by his coherence
portant French-Canadian province of Quebec
and literacy. Tim Buck heads in Canada a
behind the Liberals. Mr. St. Laurent is noted
typical Communist organization which places
for his intellectual ability, for his sincerity,
the USSR above all other loyalties. He has
and for an integrity and simplicity which have
visited Moscow several times, and in March
won the trust of Canadians. In debate he is
1947, Belgrade.
logical, thorough, and firm in his convictions,
In 1920 he was active in support of strikes
yet his conciliatory methods are an important
and in 1921 helped organize a Workers' Party;
asset in the handling of sensitive Dominion-
in 1931 he was sent to jail for five years; in
provincial relations.
1935 he became a member of the Executive
On purely domestic affairs Mr. St. Laurent
Committee of the Communist International;
stands to right of center in his Liberalism;
and in 1937 he went to Spain to help organize
in foreign affairs he stands vigorously for the
the Canadian battalion in the fight against
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