Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report of the "three wise men"-Canada's Lester Pearson, Italy's Martino, Norway's Halvard Lange-was less ambitious. While arguing broadly that "there cannot be unity in defense and disunity in foreign policy," its recommendations were hedged carefully with a sense of reality. Its chief recommendation: "Member governments should not adopt firm policies or make major political pronouncements on matters which significantly affect the alliance" without advance consultation with the NATO council...
With equal firmness but less heat, External Affairs Secretary Lester Pearson pointed out that Britain had failed to advise Canada of its Middle East plans. Lacking prior consultation, Canada went to the U.N. and voted independently. "If a resolution is right, we vote for it," Pearson said. "It is bad to be a chore boy for the United States. It is equally bad to be a colonial chore boy, running around shouting 'Ready, aye, ready...
...Pearson's declaration of independence won Parliament's solid approval. Shortly after he spoke, the house voted 171 to 36 against a Tory no-confidence motion...
...friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling. Canada's Lester Pearson, who sponsored the resolution setting up UNEF, assured the Assembly that the Menon resolution was "unnecessary." The U.S. delegation, torn between its desire not to damage the Atlantic alliance further and its anxiety to retain new-found U.S. prestige in Asia and Africa, wavered. Finally, in the third U.S. change of heart in two days, Cabot Lodge lukewarmly but conclusively lined the U.S. up behind Menon...
Concluded the Post's letter writer: "Please keep publishing Pearson on your comic page. He is so much funnier than all the rest. As to that series on Pearson now running in another famous publication [the Satevepost's "Confessions of an S.O.B."], it seems to me your esteemed contemporary misses the point. To paraphrase that old vaudeville joke-it isn't so much a question of who called that political prophet a so-and-so; the real point is who called that so-and-so a political prophet...