Word: pearsons
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Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's administration had long delayed such a drastic step, though a S.I.U. walkout and the dynamiting of a Canadian freighter manned by a rival union last fall indicated that there would be no waterfront peace as long as Banks was in power. For the past five months, government-appointed trustees have run the S.I.U. in an effort to clean it up and get the members themselves to vote Banks...
...which, it seemed, was still only in the discussion stage. Two weeks ago, the Security Council had authorized such a force but, despite backstage urging by Britain and the U.S., it had not yet been assembled. "Events move very rapidly these days," said Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson, inferring that they move far faster than governments. Canada was willing to supply 1,000 soldiers but did not intend to be the only partner of Britain in a peacekeeping operation...
...third such raid in less than a month, and Diefenbaker asked what was being done to "protect our armed forces." Another Opposition speaker sarcastically demanded assurances that the RCAF's new Bomarc missiles would not be stolen as well. Embarrassed officials of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's government could only reply that security measures were being tightened at armories all over Quebec. In their zeal, soldiers even paid a midnight call on a fashionable prep school and took away the cadets' World War I drill rifles...
...Prime Minister Pearson's first acts when he took office last year was to appoint a Royal Commission on Biculturalism to recommend ways to develop "the basis of equal partnership." But feelings run deep, and, partly spurred by the rise of Charles de Gaulle's France to new prominence, more and more French Canadians are openly talking about a separate Quebec. Yet the fear of economic hardship, among other things, discourages many Quebeckers from taking separatism seriously-it would be a "disaster," says Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage. On its own, however, Quebec is seeking capital from...
DOCTOR DARWIN by Hesketh Pearson. 235 pages. Walker...