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After the procession has reached a platform erected at one end of the Stadium, greetings will be given by Gov. Peabody, representing the Commonwealth; Cardinal Richard J. Cushing, representing Massachusetts churches; and President Pusey, representing the academic world. The Very Reverend Michael P. Walsh, president of Boston College, will also speak...
...motorcade of 12 cars will form at the American Airlines maintenance hanger and proceed to the B.C. main gate via the Sumner Tunnel, Storrow Drive, and Soldiers Field Road, then to Market St., Brighton, to Chestnut Hill Ave., and straight out Commonwealth...
...labeled as a neutralist in the U.S. When Red Chinese armies marched into Korea, and the U.S. proposed a hard U.N. resolution that Britain feared would extend the war, Pearson frankly told the U.S. that its policy was about "to go off the rails." Then he nudged Commonwealth Prime Ministers, meeting in London, closer to the U.S. position, and a compromise resolution was passed. Conceded a U.S. diplomat: "We would never have taken so much arm-twisting from anyone but Mike...
...Fell Out. Pearson's most anxious diplomatic hours came in November 1956, after Israel, Britain and France invaded Nasser's Egypt. The crisis split Canada, which had always loyally supported Britain in time of war, but now found itself ranged alongside the U.S. and most of the Commonwealth in disapproval. Pearson had long talked of a U.N. force. At a quiet conference with Dulles, during a late General Assembly session, Pearson brought his idea forward "to prevent the deterioration of the conflict into war, and give the British and French a chance to get out with some kind...
...glumly accepting visits from old Bloomsbury friends like Lytton Strachey. What makes Brenan's story unique and the telling of it a rare pleasure is the one quality that distinguishes him from the ordinary run of men-his indifference to the opinions of others. In the cozy modern commonwealth of man, he never learned to snuggle up to his fellows. He had a hermit's vocation in a world that has no use for those who have...