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Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, in Moscow last week for a good-will visit with top Soviet officials, found time for one item of business: an agreement to start preliminary talks for a new Canadian-Soviet trade treaty. The Moscow press, hailing the latest evidence of the spirit of Geneva at work, announced that Soviet negotiators would leave soon for Ottawa...
...Pearson's agreement to talk trade came almost as an afterthought to a week devoted to rounds of parties, sightseeing tours, and long office calls on senior Soviet functionaries. Three of his Russian hosts once cornered Pearson at a Canadian Embassy luncheon and demanded to know why Canada refuses to sell Russia strategic aluminum, copper, and nickel. Pearson smoothly replied that the metals are in short supply. "Where?" demanded ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov. "In Russia," smiled Pearson...
Canada's peripatetic External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, bandying spirit-of-Geneva small talk with Soviet big shots during a social visit to Moscow last week, clinked champagne glasses with Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovitch and pitched a slow-curve bon mot: "We in Canada have an interesting geographical position in the world-between the Soviet Union and the United States . . . You might say we are the ham in the sandwich." Suggested Kaganovitch politely: "Or perhaps a good bridge?" "Well," agreed Pearson, "perhaps that's a nicer way of putting...
...Pearson also pictured Batista as a staunch foe of Communism, but neglected to mention that the President had legalized the Communist Party and won its support in the 1940 elections before finally outlawing the party. When Pearson wrote that "not even an armed sentry paced outside" the presidential palace-which is guarded night and day by up to six sentries in plain view-Diario National Columnist Luis Conte Aguero exploded: "Too ridiculous to comment." Although intensive security precautions are taken to protect Batista wherever he goes, Pearson wrote that the President "had no secret service" at a political rally...
Columnist Perez. The hardest blow was struck by Columnist Milton Guss in the English-language Havana Post, which usually carries Pearson's column. Instead, Guss introduced readers to "Don Perez,' famous Havana columnist, whose predictions are 98% correct-2% of the time." Wrote Guss...