Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columnist Drew Pearson suggested that Smith should be investigated because he had been elected Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild, "a known Communist front," and because he had attended the second anniversary of Castro's revolution and returned "singing Castro's praises." Smith did not know of the Act "and if I had I would not have registered," he says. The case eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court and an unfavorable decision would have meant thirty years in jail, but the Court ruled the law unconstitutional...
Although Canada has had much entertainment lately - the glowing centennial of its independence, the excellent Montreal Expo, the amusing visit from Charles de Gaulle - its politics have been rather dreary. The Liberal government under Lester Pearson has gone quietly on its way, strengthening relations between French-and English-speaking Canada, expanding foreign trade, and boosting an economy that has been growing 6% a year...
...progressive who sees no "original sin" in government economic planning and built so elaborate a welfare program in Nova Scotia that he was called a Conservative socialist. At the same time, he wants Canada's growing welfare state to be administered in a more businesslike way. Like Pearson-and unlike Diefenbaker-Stanfield believes broadly in warmer relations with the U.S. and more foreign investment in Canada. With his accession, the Conservative Party's main power base will automatically shift from Diefenbaker's Western prairies to the Atlantic provinces. Stanfield will also pay more attention to Ontario...
Drift in Feeling. Pearson's Liberals are well aware of what they are now up against. Though Canada is prospering as never before, public sentiment is drifting away from Pearson's brand of big-government spending. If Stanfield can hang on to Diefenbaker's strongholds in the West and win Ontario, a new election could well reduce the Liberals to a party significant only in its traditional power base, Quebec...
...Pearson plans to sit tight for a while and watch Stanfield in action. Then he will decide whether, at 70, he wants to confirm his leadership by calling new elections (he has until the fall of 1970) or convene his own party convention and let power pass to a younger leader...