Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GRETCHEN K. PEARSON...
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...
Nothing . . . gives us cause to believe that basic Soviet objectives in foreign policy have changed, or that Soviet leaders are in fact ready to accept reasonable solutions to major international problems." Dependence on U.S. Relations with the U.S., said Pearson, "are becoming more and more important to both countries and more varied and complicated...
Died. Joseph Wright Powell, 76, naval architect and shipbuilder; in Thomasville, Ga. During the Spanish-American War, Annapolisman Powell commanded the little launch which, under heavy fire, vainly searched for survivors of the-collier Merrimac, scuttled in the entrance to Santiago Harbor by Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson in an effort to bottle up Admiral Cervera's fleet...