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...touched off across Canada by the magnetic, evangelistic personality of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, the Tory national leader. The returns in Manitoba gave the Tories 26 seats, the Liberals 19, the socialist CCF II. Though the CCF thus got the balance of power, the premier will probably be Tory Dufferin Roblin, 41, the spellbinding bachelor politician who energetically masterminded his party's victory. Across the land the long-dominant Liberals were left with control of only two small island provinces on the Atlantic coast-Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland...
Married. Lucian Michael Freud, 31, tousled London painter, grandson of the late great Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud; and Lady Caroline Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 22, sister of Britain's Marquess of Dufferin and Ava; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
...Allan Octavian Hume, a British theosophist and retired civil servant, founded the Congress in 1885. He persuaded the Viceroy, Lord Dufferin, that the best way to combat growing unrest in the villages was to let Indian leaders discuss political development...
Jumping the Fence. By no means all the deserters were French Canadians. At least 600 members of the Oxford Rifles, transferred to London, Ont., from the West Coast at year's end and headed for overseas duty, did not return from leaves. When members of the Dufferin & Haldimand Rifles were rushed to fill the Oxford's ranks, at least 100 of them went A.W.O.L. by scrambling over a 6 ft. fence...
...British Columbia's Premier, red-cheeked Thomas Dufferin Patullo, last week's Provincial elections were supposed to be a mere matter of routine. His Liberal Party held a comfortable 31 seats of the 48 in the Legislature and there were no vital campaign issues. His foremost rivals, the Conservatives and the socialistic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, were stumping the Province with only formal eloquence, with little to talk about. It looked like the quietest election since the Liberals took control...