Word: canadians
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Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, who had declared a fortnight ago that Canadian neutrality would be "unthinkable" if the U.S. were at war, was evidently thinking hard about it last week -and making a few qualifications. Pearson's afterthought came out in a foreign-policy debate in Parliament, when he was under attack by opposition CCF (Socialist) members for following the U.S. too closely, and by Tory and Social Credit critics who feel that Canadian support of the U.S. is not forthright enough...
...situation in which Canada might conceivably remain neutral, Pearson said, would be a fight by the U.S. to defend the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He said: "I do not consider a conflict . . . for the possession of these Chinese coastal islands [to be] one requiring any Canadian intervention...
Good Impression. In private talks with the Cabinet, Dulles was even more forceful. He directly attacked the proposal often made by Canadian and British leaders that the islands of Quemoy and Matsu off China should be meekly surrendered to the Reds, with no truce concession in return, in order to have, as they put it, "a hundred miles of clear water between you and the Communists." If that is the thing to do, Dulles asked, why not withdraw all the way to the U.S. mainland, behind 6,000 miles of water? The proposal might seem sensible to someone who looked...
Whether he won them over to his viewpoint is a question that will be answered only in future Canadian foreign-policy decisions and debates. But there was no doubt that John Foster Dulles personally had made a good impression on Canadian leaders. The reaction of Toronto Conservative M.P. Margaret Aitken was typical: "I don't necessarily agree with his point of view, but it was immensely reassuring to know that the U.S. has men of that intellectual caliber...
...Canadians have learned to be fond of the imported games of football and baseball, but their first love is their own game: ice hockey. Much of .that love is lavished on one star: French Canadian Maurice ("the Rocket") Richard, the best professional player on skates-and the man with the hottest temper...