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Reporting on Canada to John Scott and his staff of writers and researchers are twoscore correspondents, including bureaus in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Calgary. For this week's cover story, the biggest reporting job was done by Ottawa Bureau Chief John Beal, an old TIME hand, who was a correspondent in our Washington bureau for 15 years, and who is author of John Foster Dulles, a biography of the late Secretary of State. In the course of reporting the Pearson story, Beal got many new insights, including an opportunity to study Pearson's never-released diary...
Creating NATO. The King that Truman was not referring to-Prime Minister Mackenzie King-called him back to Ottawa in 1946. By then, Pearson had ' mastered the technique of the new internationalism. He helped to draft the U.N. Charter as senior adviser to Can ada's delegation, and chaired the U.N. interim commission on food and agriculture. He was one of several men mentioned for the post of U.N. Secretary-General, "a job I would have liked." Though the Russians agreed that Pearson had the qualifications, they insisted on a European, settled on Trygve...
...make up nearly 30% of the country's population, and most of them feel like second-class citizens. They complain that they hold only 10% of the jobs in the federal civil service, usually at lower levels, that bilingualism, though given lip service in the federal capital at Ottawa, is ignored throughout the rest of the nation; that even their own province's economy is dominated by English-speaking Canadians. To War-No! Caouette shares their insecurity and makes it his platform. The son of a Quebec civil servant and the fourth of 15 children, he was forced...
...Conservatives should happen to achieve majority in the Parliament at Ottawa this April, American policy and Diefenbaker opportunism will have combined to bring U. S.-Canadian relations to what is really an unnecessary impasse...
Backed by a "Diefenbaker, resign" editorial in the pro-Conservative Toronto Globe and Mail, Trade Minister George Hees led a second palace revolt. Going to Diefenbaker's Ottawa home, Hees asked him face to face to resign for the good of Canada and the party. Stung to tears, Diefenbaker refused, and set out to rally his strength. Loyal supporters whipped up the prairie-province backbench M.P.s, and there were cheers as Diefenbaker entered the House of Commons to answer no-confidence motions brought by the opposition Liberals of Lester B. Pearson and the funny-money Social Crediters...