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...Canadians agree with External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson that the U.S. is ignoring or mishandling Canada's foreign-policy interests. Scholarly William Joseph Browne, a Newfoundland Tory M.P., took time out from the budget debate in Parliament last week to place a sharply dissenting opinion on the record. Said Browne...
Under the circumstances, Browne argued, a Canadian statesman should have little fault to find with U.S. policies. He had in mind particularly the recent Toronto speech by External Affairs Minister Pearson (TIME, April 23) in which Pearson was critical of U.S. leadership. Said Browne: "It was rather surprising that [Pearson] should speak as he recently did in Toronto . . . We are copying the bad manners of the Russians [in] their brazen . . . and even insulting tactics...
Bell Syndicate's Drew Pearson, introduced, in recognition of his libel docket, as "the only man . . . with more suits than Hart Schaffner & Marx," rolled with the attack. He realized, he said, that some "indefensible things" had been published by columnists, "and I myself have sinned. I'd like to forget a number of things." But alert columnists have kept the lid on graft, have "been able ... to give to newspapers some things which they would not otherwise...
...Pearson had a Sunday punch. The Milwaukee Journal itself, said he, knew all the facts in the celebrated case of White House Aide General Vaughan and the deepfreeze scandal (TIME, July 4, 1949 et seq.) and was "afraid" to print it. Instead, it passed the story on to Congressmen to investigate. When Pearson picked up the trail in Washington, he risked libel and printed as much of the story as he could get. Said Pearson: "If Mr. Ferguson's paper had published and not banned columns, they would have published the story of General Vaughan...
Special awards went to ABC for "the network's courageous stand in resisting organized pressure" during the Gypsy Rose Lee-Red Channels controversy (TIME, Sept. 25), and to the Providence Journal for a "most exacting, thorough and readable checkup of broadcasts by Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson and Fulton Lewis Jr.," which concluded that they were either inaccurate, misleading or inclined to emotionalism...