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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...
Vodka & Mr. Dulles. It used to be said that when New Delhi wanted to talk to Washington, the call went first to Ottawa. As an interlocutor, Pearson attained a rare influence for Canada; Senator John F. Kennedy wrote that the Canadian Foreign Service for its size was "probably unequaled by any other nation." A colleague describes Pearson's talents as a negotiator: "He sits down with a person from another country without ingrained hostility or prejudice or superiority. He has a sense of humor that helps...
When General Lauris Norstad, retiring from SHAPE, dropped in at Ottawa last winter and allowed that Canada was not living up to its NATO commitments. Pearson, after a thoughtful week off, announced a switch in Liberal policy: since Canada had made a nuclear commitment to NATO and NORAD. it should live up to its obligations, and at a future time re-examine the rights and wrongs of the commitment...
...French dissatisfaction that Demagogue Caouette exploited was the feeling that French Canadians had been cheated out of their birthright. They thought, said Mike Pearson, that Confederation "meant partnership, not domination." but the result has been "an English-speaking Canada with a bilingual Quebec." In Ottawa, French-speaking civil servants are even required to write to each other in English-for ease of filing. Young French intellectuals bitterly call themselves the "white Negroes" of Canada. French Canadians outside Quebec, crusading for schooling in their own language, were recently told by a school trustee of one large Ontario city: "We have...
Just a Gimmick? After a NATO session in Paris and conferences in London attended by Rusk. Defense Secretary McNamara and other top policymakers, the U.S. announced that it would present next month's NATO meeting in Ottawa with detailed plans for a nuclear command and planning structure to integrate the new inter-allied force. It would include Britain's V-bombers and, in 1968, its Polaris fleet, as well as three Polaris submarines that the U.S. has committed to NATO, and other Allied aircraft and missiles...