P.M.'s Opponent

POLITICS

Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was going to meet opposition after all. Dr. Richard Monahan, 64, a lean, red-haired man with an un-Canadian impulse to throw away $1,000, announced that he would run in the Glengarry, Ont. by-election called for Aug. 6 to give Mr. King a seat in Parliament.

Opposition parties had stood aside to let Mr. King slide comfortably into the Glengarry seat after his defeat in Prince Albert, Sask., in the June 11 general election. To Dr. Monahan, no more a resident of Glengarry than the Prime Minister, this procedure seemed too cut & dried. Said he: "If he's not good enough for Prince Albert, he's not good enough for old Glengarry."

The doctor created a mild stir when he popped into Alexandria, Glengarry's biggest town, for the preliminaries. There he identified himself as a Montreal-born Irishman who had long served in the British Air Force, Army & Navy.

Like everyone else, Dr. Monahan thought that he had no chance to win. Said he: "I think the French Canadians (about half the 15,000 population) will lose me the election. . . ." He planned to spend $1,000 in an effort "to set the heather blazing again across old Glengarry."

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