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...deference to a custom of long standing, Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent will broadcast a message to the Canadian people on New Year's morning. St. Laurent recorded the speech last week just before leaving Ottawa to spend the holidays at his Quebec City home. The actual text was to be kept secret until the broadcast, but one of the aides who helped prepare it disclosed what the tone of the message would be. "It will be calm and confident," he said, "with what Hollywood calls an upbeat ending...
...young Frenchman named Laurent Francois heard that terrorists were abroad, drove to the police station in Cassaigne for protection. At the station entrance, a shot from the shadows drilled him through the head...
Leaving Massena, U.S. and Canadian officials rode across to a field near Cornwall, Ont. where Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Ontario's Premier Leslie Frost and Governor Dewey took silver-plated shovels in hand and broke ground for the project's powerhouse...
When a foreign-affairs debate opened in Parliament last week, Pearson and St. Laurent were in, a more cautious mood. Pearson, leading off with a review of foreign policy, completely skipped the subject of Red China. St. Laurent openly apologized for the "loose language" that had given the impression that he favored recognition soon. Said St.Laurent: "Under present conditions. I do not see any reason why we should consider diplomatic recognition of China...
...opposition Conservative Party was far from satisfied with the Liberals' backtracking. Tory Leader George Drew delivered one of the most forceful speeches of his career in condemning Pearson and St. Laurent for their loose talk outside the House. "When we talk of recognition for the government of China," said Drew, "let us remember that we are talking of recognizing a government whose hands are still red with the blood of young Canadians and other young men . . . who went to Korea. [In Indo-China], France ... is engaged in a deadly and terrible conflict with -armed forces . . . supported and maintained...