Word: pearsons
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Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, who had declared a fortnight ago that Canadian neutrality would be "unthinkable" if the U.S. were at war, was evidently thinking hard about it last week -and making a few qualifications. Pearson's afterthought came out in a foreign-policy debate in Parliament, when he was under attack by opposition CCF (Socialist) members for following the U.S. too closely, and by Tory and Social Credit critics who feel that Canadian support of the U.S. is not forthright enough...
...situation in which Canada might conceivably remain neutral, Pearson said, would be a fight by the U.S. to defend the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He said: "I do not consider a conflict . . . for the possession of these Chinese coastal islands [to be] one requiring any Canadian intervention...
...Down. Then what did he mean by his earlier statement that Canada could not remain neutral if war came? "I have said that it would be impossible for either the U.S. or Canada to be neutral if the people of the other country were engaged in a major war," Pearson explained, putting special emphasis on the word major. "It does not mean . . . that whenever the U.S. is engaged in any kind of war, we are at war ... It certainly does not mean that we must participate in limited or peripheral wars...
Grays dominated the 100-yard freestyle with Jim Boudreau winning the event in 1.03.3 and Chuck Currier finishing second. In the 200-yard freestyle, Andy Pearson for Thayer Middle was first while the leading qualifier, Anderson, who was obviously tried from the 100 event, dropped to third...
...Washington two days later, Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies added the endorsement of his 9,000,000 people down under to what Pearson had said. "The enemy is very astute," Menzies told the U.S. Senate, "to seize upon every point of difference among the governments of free countries, and magnify them. I believe that the points of difference . . . are trivial . . .If we were contemplating a great world war in defense of freedom, you would know, I would know, everyone in Great Britain would know, all around the free world we would know, that we would...