Monday, Jun. 30, 1958

Tory Mop-Up

Governments often live to a ripe old age in Canada, but none in the nation's history had lived as long as the Liberal regime in the central prairie province of Manitoba. Last week, after 43 years, the regime at last lost a provincial election--just one year after the fall of the national Liberal government that had ruled for 22 years.

The reasons were much the same: a resurgent Tory Party capitalizing on the cry of time for a change. The victory carried on the political upheaval 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.

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