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...teasing, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't election talk went on, a lot of Canadians were tiring of Pearson's game. "If Mr. Pearson does not have serious and clear views on whether there should be an election," said the Ottawa Journal, "he should conceal that ghastly vacuum in impressive silence." With that kind of sentiment growing and John Diefenbaker sharpening his sword, there was a chance that a fall election might leave Pearson little better off than he is right...
...dilatory as they are-have been magical in their muddling. He was firm only in the Kutch incident, when he sent two divisions of Indian troops to within 300 yards of Pakistan's fortified positions, and that won him support at home. His trips abroad-to Cairo, Moscow, Ottawa, London and Belgrade-earned headlines at home for a man who was at least patrolling the old capitals if not storming them, as Nehru had done, to India's delight. Even when Lyndon Johnson scrubbed Shastri's June trip to Washington under the press of Viet Nam business...
There is one other matter which I wish to announce," Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson remarked to the Members of Parliament in Ottawa last week. "The Minister of Justice this morning submitted his resignation to me. After discussing the matter twice with him, I have no course but to accept it. I do so with deep regret...
...Dieppe raid in 1942, got his revenge in command of the First Canadian Army on Dday, went on to smash the German hinge at Caen, then swept north along the coast through Belgium, clearing the Channel ports and storming across the Rhine into Germany; of a heart attack; in Ottawa...
...English nor French. And Pearson has gone far to meet Quebec Premier Jean Lesage's demands for nation-within-a-nation status by allowing Quebec to "opt out" of such national schemes as old-age welfare and public works, thus freeing provincial funds that would otherwise go to Ottawa...