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...through what seemed to be an expectable Opposition speech in Parliament. Then, with Diefenbaker sitting near by and without changing his tone, he threw a bomb that reverberated across the country. He read a letter supposedly written last January to Liberal Leader Lester Pearson by U.S. Ambassador W. Walton Butterworth Jr., blatantly siding with Pearson's Liberals in the political campaign...
...Canadian newspapers bothered with the letter then, because a little checking made it look like a clumsy forgery. The original was probably put together from three photographs: a letterhead from the U.S. embassy in Ottawa, the text, and a facsimile of a Butterworth signature. The type in the text did not match the typewriters of the ambassador's secretaries, and the scale was out of proportion with the letterhead. Pearson's Rockcliffe address was misspelled "Rockliffe," and the occasion of Pearson's nuclear policy speech was misstated. Beyond this, the letter simply did not read like Butterworth...
...Once again last week, both Butterworth and Prime Minister Pearson wearily denied that any such letter was ever written or received...
...catalyst of conflict, it would seem that a novel about the marriage of a bone-bred conservative and a dogmatic liberal must at least provide a rattling good battle-report. For a time it looks as if this is what First Novelist Le Comte has produced. "He" is John Butterworth. a rather stuffy young Yale man who considers himself to be the best Latin teacher in the country. "She" is his wife Herta. a beautiful Viennese Jewish girl who fled Europe during World...
...Future. This is not the "China Lobby" talking, but a gentle missionary who tries hard to avoid recriminations. Yet, Dr. Stuart recalls how, on his return to the U.S. in 1949, Walton Butterworth director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, and other State Department pros shushed Stuart, screened him from the press and censored his speeches...