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MONTREAL, Quebec, April 8--Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson has emerged as Canada's next Prime Minister on the basis of today's nationwide elections. As of 1130 p.m. he did not have a working majority, but this party had won or was leading 128 ridings. The majority figure...
...seats to the 35 they had in the last Parliament, the Liberals had hoped to gain even more of Ontario's 85 seats. The N.D.P. retained its six seats, although David Lewis, deputy leader of the Party, lost his York South riding to Liberal Marvin Gelber. Liberal leader Lester Pearson easily won his Algoma East constituency...
...through Canada's eight-week election campaign, Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Liberal Leader Lester Pearson were politicians in search of an issue. The crowds turned out in numbers, but the oratory sounded as if it were from a leftover LP record, and this time the campaigners were playing the dull side. In the final stage of the campaign, just when he seemed to be running out of things to say, John Diefenbaker decided that he had found his issue...
...Victoria. B.C., Lester Pearson tried to shrug it off: "It's his rug, not mine." Diefenbaker was the one who brought the Bomarcs to Canada, Pearson recalled...
...betting was that in such circumstances, Diefenbaker would do the same. As Prime Minister, he has the technical right to remain in power until voted down in the House of Commons, and might well try to form a coalition with the funny-money Social Crediters. That possibility filled Lester Pearson with dismay. "I can think of nothing else much worse for Canada," he said, "except war or complete domestic anarchy, than to have this country fall into the hands of a group of parties of such men as Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr. Caouette." With Diefenbaker making the most...