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...Ottawa last week the talk was of a new election this spring-Canada's third in as many years. All this could have been expected to bring joy to the Conservative Party, which Pearson defeated in 1963. What it brought was a twanging in another set of rusty wires. Many Conservatives feel that former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 69, is too unpopular to lead them to election victory. They are pressing for a party caucus before Parliament convenes Feb. 16 to pick a new leader. Diefenbaker, after eight years of leadership, shows no inclination to fade quietly away...
...Royal Canadian Mint had never seen anything like this. On Jan. 2, post-office trucks rolled up to Ottawa's turreted mint building with 125 bags containing nearly 2,000,000 pleading letters. Within a week the mail reached 6,000,000 letters. And who was doing most of the writing? U.S. coin collectors...
...effect was a little like a run on a country bank. The Canadians fear a coin shortage of their own, and the Ottawa mint is Canada's only coin-making facility. As the mail piled up, Finance Minister Walter L. Gordon issued a hurried public statement declaring the sales of 1965 sets halted. The first day's orders alone were enough for the whole year. Mint Master Norval A. Parker turned one of the mint's cafeterias into a workroom, hired 20 extra workers to return the letters to their senders...
...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 fly the new banner -a single red maple leaf on a white field with heavy red bars on either side...
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...