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...years by the Conservatives, Canada's Parliament gathered last week in delicate political balance. For Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, heading a ruling minority of no Tories* in a 265-seat House of Commons, the order of business was to pass an ambitious legislative program. Liberal Leader Louis St. Laurent, 75, Prime Minister from 1948 until his party's defeat last June, faced an equally challenging problem in maneuver: to harry and wound the Tories politically, but not so grievously as to force an election that Liberals fear would cost them some seats...
...needy and war veterans; it planned to provide cash advances for farmers with unsold wheat, and to embark on a far-reaching program of hydroelectric power development. If Parliament balked at any significant part of his program, confident John Diefenbaker would call an early election. Said cautious Louis St. Laurent: "It does not seem to us in the official Opposition appropriate to move the traditional vote of want of confidence." Taunted Diefenbaker: "A defeatist attitude...
...House of Commons settled down to its first full day's work, Diefenbaker strolled across the Chamber to shake hands with his old adversary, Liberal St. Laurent. Then moving a few paces farther, he offered a warm handshake to Lester Bowles Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs in the old Liberal government and now an ordinary M.P. Reason: word had just reached Ottawa that the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament had awarded "Mike" Pearson its Peace Prize−the first ever to go to a Canadian...
Ever since John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservatives bulldozed into power last June for the first time in 22 years, Canada's defeated Liberal Party has yearned nervously for new leadership. Liberal bigwigs were too fond of defeated Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 75, to dethrone him abruptly. But others were less solicitous: the liberal Toronto Star hammered away with Louis-must-go editorials; the Ontario Young Liberals Association breathed fire against "our latter-day leaders." Last week, with the tacit approval of his political intimates, "Uncle Louis" announced that he would step down as Liberal chief, explained...
Liberal Party custom dictates that a Protestant English Canadian and a Roman Catholic French Canadian alternate the party's leadership. The only Protestant of English ancestry prominent enough to succeed Louis St. Laurent is Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, boyish, bow-tied, onetime (1945) Ambassador to the U.S. and External Affairs chief throughout the St. Laurent regime. In that office he gave Canada (pop. 16.5 million) a great say in Western affairs; e.g., the U.N.'s Middle East police force was a result of a Pearson resolution. His only serious political trouble occurred at home, when...