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...center for more than 50 years after Francis' death. Their products are the subject of a large and delectable show called Fontainebleau: Art in France, 1528-1610, organized last year by the French government and now on view at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa...
...only nation irate about cease-fire violations. Canada, the chief Western member on the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision, has been so hampered by Communist obstruction that Ottawa is considering a walkout. Canada's External Affairs Secretary Mitchell Sharp flew to Indochina last week for a three-day tour of Saigon, Vientiane and Hanoi. His purpose: to size up the problems of Canada's 290-man mission to the ICCS. The U.S. is extremely anxious for Canada to remain, for, as one American diplomat put it, "there is no question that the Canadians have provided...
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...Pearson, while head of Canada's Liberal Party, from ever winning a majority in Parliament. It also helped make his term as Prime Minister (from 1963 to 1968) one of the most boisterous and fractious in Canadian history. Yet even before he died last week of cancer in Ottawa, at the age of 75, "Mike" Pearson had acquired recognition and respect as an authentic Canadian statesman...
...lasting accomplishment was essentially a negative one-he kept Canada from splitting apart. He awoke his own party and English-speaking Canada to the imperative need to accommodate Quebec's so-called Quiet Revolution. He also invoked a diplomat's infinite flexibility to prevent a collision between Ottawa and French Canadian nationalists. In a rare moment of immodesty, Mike Pearson precisely summed up his own achievement: "It is not nation building. It is nation saving. It is not less than that...