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...numbing campaign ditties echoed and re-echoed across the countryside last week as 10 million voters prepared for yet another trip to the polls. Canada's general election next week will be its fifth in eight years, the fourth straight in which Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson, 68, has gone up against Conservative Leader John Diefenbaker, 70 (score: Pearson 1, Dief 2). For many Canadians that old act is getting to be a drag...
Most of the world was begging the contestants to stop. Would-be mediators ranged from Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson to the leaders of Russia. There were some strange alignments. The Soviet Union?long a supporter of India?called for an instant truce. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson did the same and urged all Commonwealth heads of state to follow suit. Red China gleefully came out for Pakistan, and on a Karachi visit last week, Foreign Minister Chen Yi pledged China's support of Pakistan in repelling "Indian armed provocation." Indonesian students in Djakarta joyfully wrecked the Indian...
Climaxing a two-week guessing game, Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson last week gave the widely expected answer and called a general election for Nov. 8. After 29 months of remarkably successful minority rule, Mike Pearson apparently feels strong enough to win more than the six additional seats he needs for a majority in the House of Commons...
...question is how Canada's voters feel about being dragged into their fifth election in eight years. Indications are that they are not at all enthusiastic. There are no real issues; the country is calm, prosperous and intent on getting more so. The normally pro-Pearson Ottawa Citizen was sharply critical of "the specious grounds" for an election; the Ottawa Journal called it "a spectacle of bad judgment"; the Toronto Globe and Mail rapped Pearson for ignoring "every conviction relative to the national good." Summed up the Montreal Star: "The feeling across the country is that no election...
...teasing, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't election talk went on, a lot of Canadians were tiring of Pearson's game. "If Mr. Pearson does not have serious and clear views on whether there should be an election," said the Ottawa Journal, "he should conceal that ghastly vacuum in impressive silence." With that kind of sentiment growing and John Diefenbaker sharpening his sword, there was a chance that a fall election might leave Pearson little better off than he is right...