Michael- Meighennominated OCT 12 1971

W estmount Tory hoeing a hard row. If there is a gentle. corner mons. At the same time, Premier ·Robert Bou- of heaven reserved for politi- Fernand Alie, the president o( rassa. cians who have had a rough the party's. Quebec associ- t i m e on earth, A1thur by ation, also resigned after One issue •!eighen was there last week, attacking the party, in an "There's no other issue in booking down on his grandson Peter open ' letter in the Montreal Quebec right' now," according tand wondering if miracles can newspaper Le Devoir, for fail- to Nolin. still happen. Desbarats - i n g to accommodate the The party's most glaring national aspirations of its deficiency continues to be the The science that he loolmd - French-speaking members. down on must have seemed lack of an effective spokes- both f a m i l i a r and extra- . have looked down on his These events led to specula- man in Quebec. Ordinary to this p r a i r i e grandson with total Under- tion that the Conservatives The whole picture in Que- lawyer who became Prime standing. might be wiped out complete- bec could change if the Minister of Canada in 1920, A veteran of some of the ly ih Quebec in the nex~ Conservatives could come up lost the election th.e following bitterest election battles in election. with "a bold man and an year and was replacedas Canadian history, he must Strength claimed MICHAEL MEIGHEN aggressive fighter, a master Conservative leader in 1927 by . have regarded the task ac- of satire and caustic wit, and R. B. Bennett. ce.pted by Michael Meighen But officials of the. party in There is an active provin- fact that Alie's resignation fond of p i c t u r e s q u e lan- cial council and 10 regional seems to have ended the "two guage." Nominated with a mixture of admiration Montreal this week claimed councils, four in Montreal and nation" debate within the That was the description of and horror. that the resignations had not six in rural Quebec. party that hurt it in all parts Arthur Meighen written in In Victoria Hall, in the In the election of June, jeopardized a basic reorgani- of the country in 1968. 1965 by party historian Heath centre of Westmount, in the 1968, , president zation that has been under Finances improving Nolin now insists that "the MacQuarrie. h e a r t of English-speaking of the Treasury Board and way since the 1968 election. C o n s e ·r v a tives are the Last Wednesday night, look- ,Montreal, 32-year-old Michael one of the inner cir.cle in the In the wake of that disas- Nolin claims that party staunchest federalists of any- ing down on his bachelor Arthur Meighen was accept- Trudeau cabil1et, was elected trous campaign,·C o n s e r v- finances are improving. one in Quebec" and it's clear grandson c h a r m i n g the ing- the nomination as the in Westmount with 30,732 atives in Quebec realized that There will be a public test that the party is not going to matrons of Westmount in local Conservative candidate votes against 5,909 for his the tparty really had never of this claim on Nov. 21 in debate federalism with Prime Victoria Hall, Arthur Meighen in an effortless mixture of Conservative opponent. recovered from its suicidal Montreal when Stanfield is Minister T r u d e a u on the might have recalled another McGill University English and And w h i l e Conservative alliance with the late Maurice scheduled to speak to a $50-a- h u s t i n g s the next time description of _himself written Laval University French. leader tried Duplessis in the '30s. plate dinner. Organizers of arow1d. when he attended the 1921 If Arthur Meighen, on the to reassure theaudience last The unexpected Conserv- the event already are going The campaign will focus on Imperial Conference in Lon- far side of the great language week that "after all, 24,000 ative majorities in Quebec in out on a limb and predicting Quebec's economic problems don as a freshman prime barrier, understood what his . votes or so isn't really that 1962 had to be regarded as a that more than 2,000 people - an interestil1g attempt to minister. grandson was saying, he must much, when you remember freak phenomenon. In 1969, will attend .. beat Trudeau with the weapon They said he was a ''de- have been astonished to learn what happened to our major- the event disintegrationof the Equally iillportant is the used so effectively in 1970 by butante among dowagers. " ihat one out of four West- ities in this province in 1962,'' National Union in Quebec also mounters today is a French- Arthur Meighen knew from influenced a basic reconstruc- speaking Canadian and that P e r s o n a l experience that tion attempt by the Conserv- eight out of 10 live not in the being a Conservative in Que- atiyes. fabled man s ion s of West- bee during certain periods of According to Alie's succes- mount but in something called history is the l o n e lie s t sor, 48-year-old Montreal law- "habitations a 1 o g e m e n t s vocation in the world. yer Claude Nolin, this effort . ' it- as now giye the art for