Word: laurentlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sculptor Laurent is Professor Emeritus of Indiana's Fine Arts Dept...
Pearson returned to Ottawa as deputy minister to External Affairs Secretary Louis St. Laurent, and drafted for him the historic speech that first suggested a North Atlantic treaty. "This treaty," Pearson said at the signing, "though born out of fear and frustration, must lead to positive social, economic and political achievements if it is to live." Though proud of his role in creating NATO, Pearson still finds a military alliance not enough...
...negotiated-and guided through the General Assembly-the plan that established the State of Israel (thereby earning Israel's Medallion of Valor). By now, Pearson had won such fame as a civil servant that the courtly St. Laurent, succeeding aging Mackenzie King as Prime Minister in 1948, brought him into his Cabinet as External Affairs Secretary-and into Parliament as a reluctant politician. Asked on the day he joined the Cabinet when he had become a Liberal, Pear son grinned: "Today...
Morning After. The Liberals had now been in office 22 years, and had become arrogant, tired and out of touch. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was a kindly French Canadian, but ineffectual at 75. The nation began to listen to a new voice from the prairies, full of fire and Chautauqua rhetoric, John Diefenbaker, promising a fresh if vague "new vision" for Canada...
Canada woke up on the morning of June 11, 1957, startled to discover that the Liberals had fallen to second place, winning only 105 seats to Diefenbaker's 112. After five days of thinking it over, St. Laurent decided that the nation had obviously lost confidence in the Liberals, and resigned...