Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subtle death wish: many wanted their own party cut down for the good of the two-party system. A Liberal in Ottawa who voted Tory summed up a common Liberal reaction: "I never dreamed everybody else would do what I did!" Among the irritants was External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson's we-know-best refusal to answer the crowding questions about the suicide of Ambassador Herbert Norman in Egypt (see box). The voters saw in earnest John Diefenbaker a way to unload .the entrenched government. Riled at the Liberal assumption that only Liberals could competently rule, they decided that...
...PEARSON Denver...
...later in 1950, said Pearson, the R.C.M.P. double-checked this ten-year-old security report on Norman, reported "that the information given is one of either mistaken identity or unfounded rumor by an unidentified subsource...
...Pearson's answer only raised a new question: Had a disloyalty charge against Diplomat Norman-even though it proved to be false-stood for ten years without getting a thorough check from External Affairs? And there was still the unchallenged statement of Orientalist Karl Witt-fogel, an ex-Communist, that he had known Norman as a Communist...
...Walsh, a onetime courier for the Communists who is now secretary of the Pan-Canadian Anti-Communist League. "Mistaken identity-rubbish," scoffed Walsh in an interview with the Toronto Telegram. "My report was the facts of the case. The second report [clearing NormanJ was the intervention of Pearson...