 If he had succeeded in his bid for the national leadership in 1942, he might have taken the place of John Bracken on his six-year march to oblivion as leader of a party that had not changed itself enough to follow a Prairie radical ... [If he had defeated Drew in 1948, he] would have been free to flounder before the political strength of Louis St. Laurent in the 1949 and 1953 campaigns.The governing Liberals repeatedly attempted to deprive Diefenbaker of his parliamentary seat.In 1948, Lake Centre was redistricted to remove areas which strongly supported Diefenbaker.