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...Canadian history, and all but divided a nation. Last week the debate over a national flag for Canada finally ended. By a vote of 163 to 78 in the House of Com mons, and 38 to 23 in the Senate, Canada's Parliament approved what Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson calls a flag for all Canadians. All that remained was for Queen Elizabeth to proclaim the new flag as the official emblem of Canada. Then down will come the old Red Ensign with its British Union Jack in the corner. And over Ottawa's Parliament Hill will...
Clearly, it was a tense moment in Ottawa. The "hot line" from the home of Canada's Prime Minister Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, 67, was in use, and North American Air Defense Command headquarters in Colorado Springs listened incredulously to the high-pitched message coming over the wires. Fortunately, Pearson added, telling the story at a rally in Manitoba last week, he was able to grab the receiver from his four-year-old grandchild, Robin Hannah, who had found the phone in a closet. "I explained to the officer on the other end that war had not begun," said...
...Canadian parliamentary issues have generated more heat and less light than the fight over a national flag. In May, Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson unfurled his choice for a flag - three red maple leaves on a white ground, bounded by two blue bars. And for the next six weeks, Canada's House of Commons argued about it in a nerve-frazzling filibuster led by Tory Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker. At last Diefenbaker wryly allowed as how the debate was going nowhere. So why not submit the issue to a 15-man committee whose "unanimous decision" would be binding? Since...
Signing the manifesto were: G. Octo Barnett, research associate; Stanley Cobb '10, Ballard Professor of Neuropathology; Gene W. Dalton, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior; Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion; William H. Forbes '23, lecturer on Physiology; Lester Grinspoon, instructor in Psychiatry...
...there was no blinking the fact that the Queen's visit had been, as London's Daily Mirror put it, "a wholly wretched mission." Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson had hoped that her presence would somehow draw French and English Canadians closer together. While her welcome was warm and cheerful in Ottawa and Prince Edward Island, French Canadians virtually ignored her, and among those who did turn out in Quebec City were the separatists, who shouted rude obscenities, chanted Québec Libre, and fought with billy-swinging policemen...