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...Johnson's foreign guests have included such dignitaries as Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, the Upper Volta's President Maurice Yaméogo, The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson (see cover story) and Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson, who annoyed the President during his U.S. visit by making a critical speech about the Johnson Administration's policy toward Viet...
...Britain's Labor government was finding it increasingly difficult to defend the U.S. in Commons. The U.N.'s U Thant had long since criticized the Johnson Administration for failing to keep the U.S. informed of the "true facts" about Viet Nam. Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson made a speech in Philadelphia urging the U.S. to call a temporary halt in bombing North Viet Nam. And from a 17-nation conference in Belgrade, with countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zambia, came still another appeal for peace negotiations...
...Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson at the height of the French Canadian separatist terrorism in 1963, the commission dug back into Canadian history, traveled all across the country interviewing hundreds of organizations and more than 11,000 individuals. It reported that while English-speaking Canadians are basically satisfied with their lives, French Canadians are not and are in an increasingly dangerous mood about...
...sides questioned the tone of high alarm. The commission did most of its interviewing in the spring and summer of 1964, when tensions were still high after a tiny lunatic fringe of Quebec separatists had been bombing mailboxes and raiding armories. The situation has eased considerably since then. Lester Pearson has appointed more French Canadians to key Cabinet posts than any other Prime Minister, and made a start on lowering the language barrier in the civil service. Canada has a new maple-leaf flag that symbolizes neither English nor French. And Pearson has gone far to meet Quebec Premier Jean...
...least of all Mike Pearson, pretends that the problem has been solved. But few Canadians genuinely believe that their country is currently in "grave danger." The commission now has another two years to recommend what else can be done, as its mandate says, for a "satisfactory matching up between the minimum of what French-speaking Canadians consider as vital and the maximum that English-speaking Canadians will accept...