Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During an audience in London last week with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Queen Elizabeth II signed a formal proclamation giving Canada its own national flag after 252 years under British colors. It should have been a moment of pride for Pearson. In 21 months of difficult minority rule, his accomplishments, besides the new maple-leaf flag, include armed forces integration, improved federal-provincial relations, the Columbia River Treaty with the U.S. -while the economy has continued strong and growing. But Mike Pearson is doing very little pointing with pride these days. A series of embarrassing scandals cloud and threaten...
...Pearson's personal integrity and international reputation as a statesman have never been at issue. But as a politician he has stumbled over one rusty little wire after another, nearly always involving the old-guard politicians in his government...
Congenial but Cautious. In a less volatile involvement with foreign affairs, Johnson met with an old friend, Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, and the two announced that tariffs covering auto shipments between the two nations would be dropped. The President also met, for the first time, Japan's new Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato. They got on congenially enough, but both proceeded cautiously and without changing their attitudes on thorny subjects...
...very end, Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker and his Conservatives fought bitterly against the maple-leaf flag, arguing that it was an affront to Mother Britain to replace the Red Ensign* that had flown for 19 years. Yet Pearson, head of an unsteady minority government desperately trying to unify Canada's divided English and French-speaking populations, persisted and finally had to shut off debate by invoking closure for the first time since...
...clock ran out, Pearson and Diefenbaker leaped to their feet for one last speech. When Pearson got the floor, he offered half his time to Diefenbaker, who refused, raging: "When the Greeks produce gifts, we recognize what they mean." Pearson was barely audible above the Conservative cat calls, but he got out a line that will join him in the history books as the man who gave Canada its own emblem: 'This is a flag for the future...