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...screened porch in the residence of the U.S. ambassador in green and summery Ottawa, two tall, greying men stood elbow to elbow one evening last week, each intent upon the other. While cocktail-party chatter echoed in other rooms, John George Diefenbaker, the Prime Minister of Canada, talked, gestured, sipped from a glass of orange juice. John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, cradled a rye highball in his hand as he nodded, smiled, listened. Thus casually, top officials of the world's two most neighborly nations began to explore the subtle new relationship that must come about...
Canada and the U.S. want to get along, can get along, and most of the time they do get along. But the closeness of contact makes irritation inevitable. In the last three years Ottawa has sent half a dozen stiff notes to Washington protesting U.S. trade restrictions. The case of Canadian Diplomat Herbert Norman, who killed himself in Cairo after a U.S. Senate subcommittee revealed that he once had Communist connections, inspired bitter diplomatic notes and an outburst of anti-U.S. editorials. Proud that their currency is robustly solid, Canadians are furious when some U.S. shopkeeper or cab driver...
...debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast in the college magazine The Sheaf that he would some day lead the opposition in the House of Commons in Ottawa...
...struggle left Drew ill and exhausted. From a Toronto hospital room, he resigned as party leader. At a convention in Ottawa in December, John Diefenbaker won the leadership on the first ballot. Diefenbaker opened his campaign for the June election with the simple charge that the entrenched Liberals had become too powerful and arrogant. The Tories, he promised, would put an end to the "concentration of overwhelming power in the Cabinet...
...night a week after the election, as John Diefenbaker and Olive sat down to chicken sandwiches and ice cream in Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel, a telephone call came from Government House. While Olive wept softly with excitement, John was informed that on the following day Governor General Massey would ask him to form a new government of Canada...