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Caouette is the most conspicuous new political phenomenon in Canada, and a man who on April 8 could wind up holding the balance of power in a nation deeply divided between Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Conservatives and Lester Pearson's Liberals. Caouette's platform is based on the funny-money Social Credit party, which in the Depression promised a printing-press prosperity (each citizen should get a share of the national wealth-in cash...
...decision of the Liberal leader, Lester Pearson, to arm Canadian Voodoo interceptors and Bomarcs with American made nuclear weapons is singularly resented in Quebec. Every Quebec newspaper save one has vehemently editorialized against him for this apparent "capitulation" to the Americans. In addition, in contradiction to Mr. Cohen's assertion, Premier Lesage of Quebec has not been "rallying provincial support" behind Mr. Pearson. Mr. Lesage has retained the classic stance of Quebec Premiers--that of studious aloofness, if not indifference, to the federal election campaign. There is not evidence that Mr. Lesage has put his political machine at Mr. Pearson...
...Then the mob gathered on Jacobs Beach, the sidewalk at 49th and Broadway. Now they sit at grey Formica tables in the Garden Cafeteria gulping matzo-ball soup, or at Jack Dempsey's bar sipping Rob Roys. Promoter Jack Solomon was in from London to see the fight. Lester Collins, ten years a manager and now a California businessman flew to New York because "I heard so much about Clay I had to find out if he's really that good." Ernie Braca, Sugar Ray Robinson's ex-manager, said that even the scalpers were...
...Diefenbaker played Truman, Liberal Party Leader Lester Pearson sounded discouragingly like Adlai Stevenson in his off moments. A onetime university professor, Canadian External Affairs Secretary, and 1957 Nobel Peace prizewinner for his work on the Korea and Suez crises at the U.N., Pearson is respected at home and abroad. But he is hardly the knock-'em-dead campaign politician. He seemed out of place before large rallies, despite a talent for the bright line and the quick quip. When Diefenbaker grandly announced that he would not debate against his competitors on TV because "I have no competitors," Pearson found...
...Liberal Party should slice through both the English and French barriers to gain substantial support in each of the nation's ten provinces. Leader Lester B. Pearson has taken a solid and uncompromising position on the two key issues which face the country: biculturalism and nuclear policy. Although Pearson's pro-nuclear posture will antagonize some pacifist French-Canadians, he has softened the possible effects by stating his position in terms of Canada's responsibility and commitments to NATO and NORAD. In addition, Pearson's genuine concern for the problem of Confederation, the co-existence of the English and French...