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External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles Pearson arose in the House of Commons one day last week to open the annual full-dress debate on foreign policy. Spreading on his desk a sheaf of handwritten notes which he had edited and re-edited almost to that hour, he outlined a policy that has undergone some shifts in emphasis, but not in direction, within the last year...
...Pearson, who is on record as favoring ultimate recognition of Red China, laid down-for this year, at any rate-a firmer line on Asiatic Communism: "We must not compromise with Communist military aggression in Asia or in any other place . . . That does not mean that we should assume that every anticolonial, nationalist or revolutionary movement in Asia is Russian Communist in origin or direction, any more than we should assume that, with patience and sympathy, every Asian Communist leader can be turned into a Tito ... I suggest that we must . . . try to convince the Asian people that . . . our kind...
Former President Truman, on a filmed television program with Columnist Drew Pearson last week, gave his version of the famed "red herring" crack about congressional spy hunts in 1948. Said Harry Truman: "The facts of the case are that, in a press conference one morning, some young man . . . asked me if the action of the House Un-American Activities Committee was not in the form of a red herring to cover up what the Republican Administration in the 80th Congress had not done, and I said it might...
CLARENCE W. PEARSON Mt. Vernon...
Secret Rendezvous. Mike Pearson, who was en route to a U.N. session in New York, hurried back to Ottawa as soon as the second U.S. note was received late last week, and called a press conference to repeat that Gouzenko had "nothing more to offer." That same day Gouzenko issued a 350-word sworn statement. Said Gouzenko: "Mr. Pearson was ill-advised . . . I can give advice which . . . would have good chances of bringing exposure of present Soviet spy rings...