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Lawrence was not a Washington personality in the manner of the Alsop brothers or the late Drew Pearson. Nor was he an eminence like Walter Lippmann or Arthur Krock. In recent times the readership of his newspaper column declined, and his writing became utterly predictable. But for more than 60 years Lawrence was a formidable journalist who always knew his audience...
Nobel Prize. Pearson's easy informality made him a highly successful ambassador to Washington in the 1940s, and an effective mediator in the founding days of the United Nations. In 1948 he helped negotiate and guide through the General Assembly the resolution establishing the state of Israel. When Israel, Britain and France invaded Egypt in 1956, Pearson proposed that the combatants be separated by an emergency U.N. force. He won approval for the idea from the General Assembly-and the Nobel Prize. It was the high point of his career...
...nadir came in 1958, when Pearson, newly named as leader of Canada's Liberal Party, lost an election to a Tory firebrand prairie lawyer named John Diefenbaker by the most lopsided margin in Canadian history. It was the first of four elections in a decade-long political duel between Mike and Dief. Pearson's liberals finally won more seats than Diefenbaker's conservatives in 1963, but for the next five years, Pearson's Cabinet seemed to lurch from one headline-making crisis to another. He survived each potential disaster, largely by leaving his ministers to fight...
...Pearson's most lasting accomplishment was essentially a negative one-he kept Canada from splitting apart. He awoke his own party and English-speaking Canada to the imperative need to accommodate Quebec's so-called Quiet Revolution. He also invoked a diplomat's infinite flexibility to prevent a collision between Ottawa and French Canadian nationalists. In a rare moment of immodesty, Mike Pearson precisely summed up his own achievement: "It is not nation building. It is nation saving. It is not less than that...
Died. Lester B. Pearson, 75, former Prime Minister of Canada (1963-68) and winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (see THE WORLD...