Word: pearsons
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NEARLY all TIME stories are written and edited in New York by staff members working with reports sent in by correspondents all over the world. This week's cover story on Canada's next Prime Minister, Lester Pearson, is an exception. It was written and edited in Montreal by our Canada staff, which is manning a unique outpost in TIME'S editorial operation...
MONTREAL, Quebec, April 8--Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson has emerged as Canada's next Prime Minister on the basis of today's nationwide elections. As of 1130 p.m. he did not have a working majority, but this party had won or was leading 128 ridings. The majority figure...
...seats to the 35 they had in the last Parliament, the Liberals had hoped to gain even more of Ontario's 85 seats. The N.D.P. retained its six seats, although David Lewis, deputy leader of the Party, lost his York South riding to Liberal Marvin Gelber. Liberal leader Lester Pearson easily won his Algoma East constituency...
From the start, the Liberals had staked their campaign on the promise of "stable government," arguing that they were the only party capable of winning a majority. Diefenbaker, with his emotional Chautauqua-style campaigning, was conducting a surprisingly strong campaign. If he finished not too far behind Pearson, there was a good chance that Diefenbaker might insistently hang onto office even though he might have fewer seats than the Liberals. There was a convenient precedent: in 1926, with 101 seats, Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King nonetheless clung to power for a time though the opposition held...
...betting was that in such circumstances, Diefenbaker would do the same. As Prime Minister, he has the technical right to remain in power until voted down in the House of Commons, and might well try to form a coalition with the funny-money Social Crediters. That possibility filled Lester Pearson with dismay. "I can think of nothing else much worse for Canada," he said, "except war or complete domestic anarchy, than to have this country fall into the hands of a group of parties of such men as Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr. Caouette." With Diefenbaker making the most...