Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defeated Conservative government, was rambling through what seemed to be an expectable Opposition speech in Parliament. Then, with Diefenbaker sitting near by and without changing his tone, he threw a bomb that reverberated across the country. He read a letter supposedly written last January to Liberal Leader Lester Pearson by U.S. Ambassador W. Walton Butterworth Jr., blatantly siding with Pearson's Liberals in the political campaign...
...letter extravagantly praised Pearson's speech in favor of accepting nuclear arms for Canada's defense forces, promised him that no other Canadian politician "has gained as many devoted friends in my country as you have." As for the Conservatives then in power, they were "narrow-minded" in their policy, "unfit" to run the country, and would now be forced to echo Pearson's statements. "At the first opportune moment," concluded the letter, "I would like to discuss with you how we could be useful to you in the future. You can always count on our support...
...probably put together from three photographs: a letterhead from the U.S. embassy in Ottawa, the text, and a facsimile of a Butterworth signature. The type in the text did not match the typewriters of the ambassador's secretaries, and the scale was out of proportion with the letterhead. Pearson's Rockcliffe address was misspelled "Rockliffe," and the occasion of Pearson's nuclear policy speech was misstated. Beyond this, the letter simply did not read like Butterworth. While the Kennedy Administration was clearly unhappy with the Diefenbaker government, hardly anyone thought that skilled Career Diplomat Butterworth would have...
...Once again last week, both Butterworth and Prime Minister Pearson wearily denied that any such letter was ever written or received...
Amid all the furor about the letter, more substantial fuel was added last week to the Liberal-Conservative controversy about U.S.-Canadian defense policy. This time, it was reports that the U.S. might base eight squadrons of jet interceptors in Canada.-Pearson's Defense Minister said he has had "in formal intimations" of such a proposal, but both Pearson and the Pentagon denied that any official request had been made. In any event, the new storm brought fresh Conservative charges of a Pearson "surrender...