Word: pearsons
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Just two weeks to go before Canada's national elections. Liberal Leader Lester ("Mike") Pearson, the challenger, was brimming with confidence. "A tide is sweeping across the country-and we will elect a Liberal government with a clear majority," said Pearson as he campaigned through the western strongholds of Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. A Nobel prizewinner and a somewhat reticent diplomat, Pearson seemed less ill at ease on the hustings than the last time he electioneered...
...Pearson and the Liberals who seem to be showing most of the drive and the exhilaration. He frankly patterns his campaigning on Kennedy, talks of declining prestige abroad, and the need to "get moving" ahead. At rallies, Liberals last week had a new gimmick, passing out play money "Diefendollars" marked 92½?, lampooning Diefenbaker's recent devaluation of the Canadian dollar. "Canada has been hurt in purse and hurt in pride," cried Pearson. And he hammers away at Tory "mismanagement''-citing unemployment, twice what it was under the previous Liberal government; six successive Conservative budget deficits, totaling...
...plane (both candidates have chartered DC-6Bs for $1,000 a day), Diefenbaker shows occasional flashes of the evangelical fire of the prairie lawyer that carried him to power in 1957 and again in 1958, but too often seems curiously defensive. Behind stolid placards intoning CARRY ON, JOHN (the Pearson adherents do no better with: BESTER WITH LESTER), Diefenbaker earnestly justifies the benefits of a devalued dollar in terms of increased trade, talks of recent improvements in unemployment, rising income and production. As to devaluation: "The only people who can be annoyed are those who want to visit...
WILLIAM M. PEARSON...
...This means," thundered Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. trying to make the best of it. "increased exports, increased jobs and more prosperity for all Canada." Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, trying to make the worst of it. labeled it "a confession of the complete failure of the government's economic policy.'' Certainly the devaluation seemed to strike at Canadians' instinctive pride in their dollar, arming Pearson in his campaign charge that Canada's international prestige has declined under five years of Tory management...