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...Canadian policy was set forth in a more direct and specific form than the British position. As stated by External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles Pearson, and discussed privately by Ottawa officials, Canada's view ef the situation added up to this...
...Official Ottawa's first reaction to the crisis was one of silence. Later, after a cabinet meeting, External Affairs Boss Mike Pearson warned against use of the atom bomb by U.S. decision alone. Said Pearson: "Before a decision of such immense and awful consequence . . . there should surely be consultation . . . with the governments concerned. One of those would be the Canadian government...
Canadians welcomed close U.S.-Canadian cooperation on defense-but there was such a thing as getting too close. The Ottawa Citizen last week indignantly reported that a U.S. defense map showed Newfoundland and a large hunk of northeastern Canada as part of the U.S. Northeast Command...
Last week the Ottawa Citizen added a startling footnote to the story of King's lonely meditations. Mackenzie King, said the Citizen, was a practicing spiritualist who believed that his dead mother helped him with advice from the spirit world...
Firm Belief. King's secret was indeed so well kept that his closest associates in Ottawa last week were unable either to confirm or deny that he was a practicing spiritualist. Some of them knew that King attended seances in London and Paris, but they attributed his curiosity to his religious nature and his firm belief in life after death. None of them could say whether, in the privacy of his study, Mackenzie King actually tried to communicate with his dead mother or whether his spiritualist experiments had any effect upon his conduct of the country's affairs...