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...drawn Canadian political cartoon (see cut) straight out of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Canada's leading cartoonist, Duncan MacPherson, aware that the summer Shakespearean season at Stratford, Ontario, coincided with the June 18 national election, put his Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (center) and Liberal Opponent Lester Pearson (holding the lion) in the motley of a couple of Shakespearean comics. He didn't try to indicate the winner, which, to judge by Canada's latest Gallup poll, is a risky business...
...This polecat . . . this vile, corrupt creature . . . this damnable skunk . . ." In these pungent terms, recalling a bygone style of political vituperation, Minnesota's Republican Representative H. Carl Andersen, last week on the House floor, attacked Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, who had written about Andersen's involvement in the Billie Sol Estes scandal (TIME cover, May 25). Andersen, senior Republican on the House subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, is so far the only Republican in Congress to be seriously tarnished by the Estes case: he took $4,000 from Estes for stock in a coal mine owned by the Andersen family...
Just two weeks to go before Canada's national elections. Liberal Leader Lester ("Mike") Pearson, the challenger, was brimming with confidence. "A tide is sweeping across the country-and we will elect a Liberal government with a clear majority," said Pearson as he campaigned through the western strongholds of Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. A Nobel prizewinner and a somewhat reticent diplomat, Pearson seemed less ill at ease on the hustings than the last time he electioneered...
...Pearson and the Liberals who seem to be showing most of the drive and the exhilaration. He frankly patterns his campaigning on Kennedy, talks of declining prestige abroad, and the need to "get moving" ahead. At rallies, Liberals last week had a new gimmick, passing out play money "Diefendollars" marked 92½?, lampooning Diefenbaker's recent devaluation of the Canadian dollar. "Canada has been hurt in purse and hurt in pride," cried Pearson. And he hammers away at Tory "mismanagement''-citing unemployment, twice what it was under the previous Liberal government; six successive Conservative budget deficits, totaling...
...plane (both candidates have chartered DC-6Bs for $1,000 a day), Diefenbaker shows occasional flashes of the evangelical fire of the prairie lawyer that carried him to power in 1957 and again in 1958, but too often seems curiously defensive. Behind stolid placards intoning CARRY ON, JOHN (the Pearson adherents do no better with: BESTER WITH LESTER), Diefenbaker earnestly justifies the benefits of a devalued dollar in terms of increased trade, talks of recent improvements in unemployment, rising income and production. As to devaluation: "The only people who can be annoyed are those who want to visit...