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IN THE WORLDTOD'.lY
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Honorable Lester
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B. Pearson
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GENERAL
CRAIG, It is a pleasure
Canadian Minister
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to welcome tl'Je
to Wash1ngto~ and al$o Admiral De Wolf,
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Starr,
the Chairman of the Canadian Joint
to the National
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War College.
Our speaker this
Lester
is the Honorable
of State
tor External
I am sure he is known by reputation
to all of you.
effort
secretary
B. Pearson,
or Canada.
afternoon
His appearance
on our part,
an ef'fort
of several
this
is,
as Mr. Pearson
leader
I understand.,
an
to find ·
years,.
Indeed, Mr. Pearson.•s
could addr~ss our college.
that
at least
here today culminates
time when ~o busy an international
is so heavr
Affairs
schedule
his second\ address
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today;
attb.oon he spoke before the National
We are,
Press &ub.
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therefore,
here this
grateful
especially
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to him for co1l\ling
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afternoon~
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Mri Pearson served as a career ... officer
in the
Canadian Foreign. ·service for twenty years prior to his
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present app~~ntment in 1948. He knows the United States
well f'rom many visits
and several
assignment
or Ambassador
being that
United States
from 1944 to 1946.
of the Canadian delegation
cisco which formulated
attend~nce
capacity
Mr. Pearson has had a
the Charter,
at every session
of the General
in addition
first
to the conference
as a member
at San Fran-
and by his record
of the General ~ssembly since
the United Nations was formed.
President
for Canada to the
1n the United Nations,
very keen interest
;
tours of duty, his last
In 1952 he was elected
as
.Assembly and served in that
to his duties
as his country's
Foreign
Minister.
It is a very high privilege
Pearson to this
the Colleges.
platform
and present
f'.or meto welcome Mr.
him to the members of
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Mr. Pearson.
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MR. PEARSON: General Craig and gentlemen:-
glad that
these efforts
which have now extended,
over so many months have finally
Cra.ig said,
I am
as General
been succes stul,
and that I have been able to appear bet.ore you today.
am particularly
National
glad that
Press Club •
I am here after
an hour at the
.Any speech to you after
going to be in the nature
of relaxation
I
that hour is
and even almost
recreation.
I understand
that
the procedure normally 1s for
the speaker to talk for a while,
then to submit himself
glad to fall
part rather
not too long I hope, and
to you for questioning.
in with that
procedure.
I am·very
I like
the questioning
than the set speech because it gives
better
me a chance to find out what you are interested
subject
the general
As
that
a
concerning which I have been talking.
or fact,
matter
is to
subject
1n about
be.
I em not quite
as the choice of subject
discuss
with you informally,
connected or possibly
I couldn't do much better,
Possibly
insofar
sure what
1s concerned,than
and I am atraid
even coherent
fashion,
to
in a not very
some or the
problems of Canadian-.A.merican relations.
As General Craig has said,
I
know this
country pretty
well,
I like
and that
to th1nk that
personally
approach these problems from our end with a feeling
only of some knowledge or this
country
people or this
United States
of friendship
country.
when I was in college
here and play hockey,.
relations
and that
to the
when we used to come down
We lost
has temp9rarily
with that
introduction
or the
Those were the days when Canada was
the world champion in hockey{
Russia,
they have to) but
and understanding
I got my first
not
{nearly all Canadians
have some knowledge of the United States;
also with a feeling
I can
country,
that last
week to
thrown a·shadow over our
which have never been very good
in any event.
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introduction
up by attempting
to make a fortune
stockyards
the first
after
the Air Force.
effort
capacity
war when I was demobilized
for Oxford University.
as General Craig has saidt
as the servant
Then I
in an
~official
of the Canadian Government in the
Affairs.
service
and I had six or seven years,
in Washin.gton,
some first-hand
experience
It was. a happy and I hope a
for me.
As a matter
or fact,
I like
to think of Canadian-
American relations
in terms of the particular
that used to exist
between Mr•. Hickerson of yo~
We knew each other
myself.
endangering
our friendship,
relationship
staff
and
so well that we could row without
and we have had many rows in
That, in a sense,- is the way we carry on our
our time.
affairs
I
in the conduct ot
experience
Canadian-.American ·relations.
helpful
During the years
or my
Department of External
did acquire
from
I went from the sublime to the ridiculous
the stockyards
came back here,
quickly in the Chicago
That was a very short and unsuccessful
on my part.
by leaving
to .American life
generally,
shouldn't
though possibly
use the word ttrow".
when I generalize
But we do have our differences
and we do solve them; and the solutions
bitterness
l
hardly
ever leave
or ill-feeling.
We are probablf
more conscious
of that
fact
in
Canada than you are here because the problems we have with
you loom very large in our national
existence,
with the tremendous world responsibilities
in this
country,
important.
your relations
would be surprising
the fact
you have to face
with us are not nearly
so
But there are problems and they are growing in
number and in complexity
course,
while naturally
between our two countries.
if this
out of our history,
were not so.
They arise,
It
of
out ot our geography and out of
that we are associated
with you today in a free
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to preserve
the peace, of which you aro the
mighty leaders
and we are,
I hope, a respectable
The history
for some
or the
of Canada 1s in one sense responsible
difficulties
in the days ahead.
that we face,
and will face
1n your eyes may not seem
Our history
to be very exciting.
phrases
member.
It is usually
disposed
as the "125 years of peace",
boundary" and all that sort of ~hing.
in such
of
and "the unguarded
It ·1s true,
something any Canadian should be very happy about,
know .Americans are,that
countries
that
catch
and it 1s
as I
we have had peace between our two
for 14o•odd years;
though of course for most of
time we in Canada weren•t
in a position
to do very
much about it because we were a colony of the United Kingdom.
But for 140 years we have not fought again~t each other;
have only fought together
last
against
others.
war between us was the War
or 1812,
might be considered
little
unofficial
overtime.
during
which I suppose
But though we have had this
it has,been, (and this
peace with friction
of trouble
As you know, the
as having ended in a draw, af'ter a
peace for ll.f-0years,
appreciated)
that time.
always
ian•t
because we have had lots
That makes the tact
that we
kept the peace during those years far more important
it would otherwise
there
1s nothing
than
be; anybody can keep the peace when
to row about,
.
but to keep the peace with
at the same time is an achievement.
friction
30 or 40 years,
In the last
of the century,
that
between our two countries.
improvement
Most of the
stood between us in the 19th century,
the d1f'f1cult1es,
removed.
since the beginning
there has been a very definite
in the relations
things
w~
Then just
going along pretty
jealousies,
worries
and frictions
at the time everything
smoothly,
where we find ourselves
a lot of
were
seemed to be
the world got into the state
today; having fought two wars, we
have to face the possibility
of another one.
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to do it
able
times - a coalition
at the other
In that
such a tragedy_.
are the leader
time - I am sorry we weren't
as· I have said,
coalition,
and we are a member.
with the United States
arising
bilateral
out of that
but out of our position
probiems (if
problems multilateral
you like,
ones).
you
We have problems
coalition.
we have also problems with the United States,
of the coalition,
to prevent
not arising
on this
you can call
These bilateral
And
continent,
the former
problems,
which I have said are ffl)Wing in number and complexity,
concerned largely
stronger,
1s looming larger
national
country
although
has gone forward
as we get stronger
these
problems;
there
by leaps
today we are the third
all
and is attracting
of the North -American continent,
forward (and,
things
are only
trading
make for differences
problems of trad~;
of communications
and intertar more interest
.As we get a
·and as we develop
as our trade
15 million
and bounds in recent
largest
nation
goes
of us, it
years until
in the world)
and difficulties
problems of development,
and
problems
{the St. Lawrence seaway is one example),
and problems of how to deal with Communist subversion
threats
are
Canada 1s getting
than used to be the case.
more powerful,
our half
that
in the continental
scheme of things,
1n this
little
with the fact
out
and
to safety.
our trade problems can be summarized very quickly.
On our part,
it is a problem
United States.
or selling
more goods in the
Last year we bought from the United States
something over $3 billion
worth of goods, more than you sold
to the whole of South .America; and we sold rouoh less in
this
market.
recent
Canada.
The gap between our buying and our selling
years has been effectively
I think
it is interesting
of view it is very satisfactory
in
met by your investment
in
to know, from our point
to know, that
such is your
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all
your foreign
billion,
investments,
country that
mental interference,
any governmental
except that which 1s supplied
good government,
there.
Now you have a big financial
trading
stake,
your investments
up one question
time,
this
you, very closely
before
stake in Canada.
defense.
At the
single
that we have with the United
now work, as I hardly need to
together
on continental
defense
Ever since the Ogdensburg tgreement,
that,
made their
in 1938 when Mr. Roosevelt
reciprocal
Declarations,
of the two countries
been recognized;
a recognition
of fact,
recognition,
has reflected
these problems of joint
defense
of this
responsibility
continent
has
which is merely
itself
machinery which has grown up 1n recent
indeed,
and Mackenzie King
the joint
for the defense
and that
1s ot
which you would expect
continental
field
The two countries
questions.
you have a big
is one of the most important
problems in the bilateral
tell
and in the
and to keep them
staket
concern to you) a big defense
me to say something about;
States.
direction
and I think you also have (and this
That brings
of the
ony govern-
good enough in the provincial
sphere to attract
more direct
i15
in Canada by, as we think,
Federal
present
as I see it,
brought about without
without
of
about $5
to the north,
That is a very good.example,
kind of mutual aid;
one-third
an amount approaching
is in your neighbour
billion.
right
or our
in the future
in certain
years through which
can be faced and I hope
solved by working together.
We have a very successful
in the United States-Canada
We have equally
successful
between our starfs
of all
this
services,
Permanent Joint
and satisfactory
Board on Defense.
arrangements
in Washington and in Ottswa.
1s, I suppose,
two armed services;
piece of such machinery
that
(and this
which I like
the cooperation
applies
to think
The result
between our
also to our diplomatic
are a branch ot defense),
is
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closer
countries
than that
in the world.
But all this
between the services
'lnd may it
does,
of any free
continue
that way.
raise
soma political
or course,
problems for us of a kind trom which you are !ree because
of the different
nature
It 1s, for instance,
aggerate
of your position
in a sense (and I don 1 t want to ex-
the importance
of this)
Canada to have United States
though that
soil
a political
troops
is not foreign
countries.
in other
in the relationship.
on her own soil,
in the sense that
We are conscious
are asked questi.ons
problem for
about that
of that
even
1s
it
fact.
We
in our House of Commons
every time they read in the newspapers that United States
forces
have moved in for some kind of exercise
with us on somo kind of joint
establishment.
something we as a government,
re~ponsible
have to keep in mind.
of United States
trouble
get in the press
in Canada.
kind of thing,
gets in the press.
That is
to public
op1n1on,
The same kind of problem arises
installations
about that
or worked
When things
and we don't
If there
we hear about it;
go all
right,
out
1s any
it
it doesn't
hear very much about it.
We have, for instance,
the leased
bases which we
took over when Newfoundland became part of the Canadian
Federation.
We were obliged
to,
and we were quite happy
to take over the commitments that
Newfoundland had under-
taken during the war, by which the United States
bases.
In return
was gi•1en
the United.Kingdom was given destroyers.
Under international
law we had to take over those obli-
gations,
and there was no complaint
and this
is illustrative
about that.
But--
of the way we work these problems
out -- we went to the people in Washington and we said,
uwhile you are entitled
to all
you had under the old agreement,
bility
for this,
it
the rights
and privileges
and we accept the responsi-
is going to be a little
more difficult
for us now that Newfoundland is a part of Canada than it
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was when Newfoundland was a colony under the direction
of the United Kingdom.
alter
problem? ••
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by
which .tmerican forces
Canada, and there
is increased
of both countries
as continental
important
leads me to another
own centers
of population
activity
on the part
scheme of things.
.And
What are we doing to
primarily,
I think,
your
(because they would be the
number one target
if there were trouble)
protect
against
ourselves
in
defence becomes more
subject;
with you to protect
are also other
are stationed
joint
in the international
cooperate
which helped
problem in Canada. ·
.As no doubt some of you know, there
arrangements
poli-
By voluntary
here the bases agreement was modified,
us meet a political
that
after
with us, which will help us meet this
discussions
action
anything you can do to
arrangement of your own free will,
this
tical
Is there
but also to
air bombardment from the north,
something that has become rar more important
was a year or two ago because of developments
now than it
behind the
iron curtain.
Today we are working out with the United States
defense authorities
A southern
a scheme of early warning radar protection.
chain which 1s now completed has 33 stations;
middle chain along the ;;
way, is a joint
possible
bility
parallel,
which is now under
of the. two countries;
cha.in is now under investigation
tar in the .Arctic.
problems,
We are,
project
0
strategic
I think,
In till this
a third
as to its
there
solving them in a satisfactory
But behind these radar defense networks,
completed,
basis,
be the parallel
there will
problems.
way.
if and
as it should be, on a joint
for these early warning systems,
systems themselves
feasi-
are technical
problems and for us political
when they are all
a
problem of fighter
support
without which support the
1
would not be or·much use~
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That also illustrates
joint
defense
what I mean by saying some of these
problems involve us in-pol1t1cal
time we in Canada feel,
At the present
felt
here,
that
own continent
of defense
line
but across
as you have
is not on our
the seas in weetern Europe.
without
Because
any
voice in our House of Commons, the North At-
dissenting
lantic
our first
that way, we were able to accept,
we feel
problems.
Treaty Organization.
of Canadian politics
To anybody who knows the history
for the "iast fifty
something revolutionary;
to aoeept the tact
on Turkey was an attack
the Atlantic
across
we have an army br.igade group there
roughly 300 jet fighters,
represents
a very considerable
interceptor
,strength.
overseas,
up by
'1,llltil today
of
'?his
of our air
when these squadrons moved
denuded us
it practically
that
in Montreal.
ma.de
proportion
In fact,
an attack
and an air division
jets
sabre
that
We followed
on Canada.
sending some of our forces
that was
years,
or that
kind of support
in the north.
For us, the problem expresses
continental
defense
becomes more important
year or two ago, and if the radar
up by interceptor
our population
to provide
squadrons,
and other
this
itself
this
way:
if
than it was a
chains have to be backed
and if,, beqause of our size,
things
defens~ ourselves
we have not the facilities
and keep an air division
of 12 squadrons 1n Europe, what are we going to do?
Bring
our squadrons back from Europe where they would have to
be replaced
by somebody ~lse,
.or allow United States
to move in1Dour north land and take over that
which really
responsibility.
should be ours because it 1s responsibility
ror our soil?
to as involving
That is the kind of thing I hav~ been referring
political
in defense matters,
standing
squadrons
problems with which we are faced
and which require
and good will
on both sides
a good deal
or under-
for a satisfactory
solution.
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there
and cooperation,
are economic problems for defense,
such things
as the implementation
in a
cold war of the Hyde Park Agreement which worked so well
during
the "hot•• war, and through which our economic
resources,
our ind~stria;t
continental
whole.
the utilization
were considered
resources
There was rally
no distinction
of Canadian resources
That kind of thing is a little
oerned'with
more difficult
to do in
with you 1ri the broader alliance
also partners
of N.ATO. As you know, .we are
wider search for collective
United States
inevitable,
partner
expect
sections
about.the
under the leadership
be a feeling
or tar
hadn't
of opinion in C~nada, a feel-
direction
of' pol1cy .in the coalition
of the United states.
greater
anxiety,
when these decisions
of this
I assure you, it the
that
that
countries
(it
at what is happening
the big,
know that
control
ow hands.
Canada at times look with some anxiety,
not so),
fateful
decisions
once those decisions
or
of these
-That I think
way, why we in
would be queer it it were
It 1s here
in l.'ashington.
have to be made.
Yet we
are nmde, we cannot help
from thexn, which we don't.
the ma.gnitude of the issues,
feel
as indeed do your
but be involved in them, even if we desired
ourselves
and.
mean peace or atomic war, wtll
and I think in an understandable
in other
a. junior
that
in making decisions,
voice
has been taken out of its
friends
Yet it 1s
kind, which at best cannot
uneasy by the consciousness
explains,
But there would
take~ th1s leadership.
to have a decisive
things
1n the Unit~d 1fat1ons.
! suppose, _and not unnatural
in a coalition
a little
security
in the still
- and I ~ight as well speak frankly
about it - in oertain
ing of' anxiety
come into play.
other problems which are con-
are.these
our partnership
There 1s a feeling
between
.and American resources.
peace time because commercial considerations
Then there
as a
to isolate
The rea.lization
plus the fact
wewould
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be involved
in any decision
or not,
consulted
causes us at times to wot_ry a little
Canada and 1n other
however; we worry as much as they do
because we know this
countries
than other peoples do.
well,
far better
able,
I hope, to distinguish
..
in some of the aspects
too disturbed,
headlines
between froth
of your life
see some
.
.
We get more in Canada, I suppose,
because from a journalistic
at your movies.
of intensity
that
the anxiety
is a little
our feelings
directly,
I
In our case,
because we can express
So we can
as we look across the
anxiety
a slightly
stems from this
the responsi-
about it.
of admiration,
There it?, in short,
that
with the same kind
and we get at times
for doing anything
border with a mixture
to
arid ve look
you have yourselves.
go on occasions,
country
is certainly
in the knowledge that we haven't
let ourselves
I.
headlines.
we listen
screen
things
different
get
for our
point of view this
you do yourselves,
the same ki~d of_.anxiety
feeling
better
than in any other
We look at these
·
by ma.ny·of the
or these
we watch your television
your radio,
we are
and we don't
continent •. We see your newspapers,
a single
so
a.nd substance
here,
l.t might be a little
peaco of mind if we didn't
bility,
country
Therefore,
though we get disturbed,
we read.
in
countries.
I ·don•t·think,
in some other
which 1s made, whether we were
and awe.
uncomfortable
awareness
that
escape the eonaquences of any.decision
we cannot
you may make or may
I
I
not make.
unlike
1s also 1nflusnced by the fact
This.feeling
some countries
the last
twenty or thirty
colonial
status.
discouraging
much as it
important
is only 1n the last
yea.rs,
It is a little
to find that
we had to learn
it
that
that
thatt
few years,
we have emerged from
ironical,
indeed a little
as soon a~ we became independent,
independence
should have meant; that
than independence;
didntt
really
mean as
interdependence
and that
all
this
1s more
boasted
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sovereignty
we had achieved from our mother country,
United Kingdom, had disappeared,
in the international
to some extent
the
et least,
commitments which we had to take.
We were glad to aecept them, but they did {and I am not
complaining about it)
new constitutional
well.restrict,
pretty
in fact,
our
freedom of action.
I con express,
I think,
some or our preoccupations
as I want to do 1n a raw
made
words, with the speech which Mr. nulles/in
New York
with this
matter when I deal,
on January 12, and which, as I was telling
today, may become one of the most important
in our time.
a statement
I venture
of defense
the Press Club
speeches made
about it because it was
to talk
planning,
defense policy,
defense
dtplomaey or an import far wider than your own boundaries,
and I think in that
sense 1t is a.ppropriate
us who are your friends
talked
to discuss
to say~
This illustrates
It 1s just
to know what this
Certainly
of
it is being
in the press and in public
about in our country,
as it 1s here,
1t.
for the rest
what I have. been trying
almost as important
means - in fact,
to us in Canada
just
as important
to
us·~ as it is to. you.
Mt. Dulles,
in New York uttered
particular
recall,
to your friends
as a basic principle
action,
making this
speech
one sentence which is I think
significance
said that
defense
you will
the decision
and allies.
for defense planning
had recently
or
He
and
been taken in
Washington (and I quote his own words) ttto depend primarily
upon a great
capacity
to retaliate
instantly
by means and
at places of' our own choosing.".
ta;'hen we. read that
just
speech in Canada (and we read it
as soon as you read it here),
at once were "1nstantly
0 ,
the words that
struck us
"means", and "our" in the context
of "our choosing".
Those three words have caused a good
deal of speculation
across
the border,
es they have here.
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So .far as "our choosing"
essential
that
earlier
to prevent war, or if that
Indeed,
Mr. Dulles himself
aggression
be able and willing
with means of its
this
collective
is for the fr~e community to
at places
are the other words •instantly"
then tor collective
ment has to consult
11
sentence),
and
own choosing".
consultation.
reconcile
that
and
experience
important
obligation
you have to have
friends,
Govern-
how are you going to
for consultation
with the other
We know in Canada (and I have p~rsonal
of this)
that
in Washington before
decisions
that
affect
course,
their
they make
friends,
they do
-with those triends.
very best to ·consult
times,of
action
but
But once the United States
with its
1nstantly"?
l
~hen the processes
Washington a~e so exhausting
There are
of consultation
and so exhaustive
in
that when
they are concluded those concerned probably haventt
tor consulting
time or energy left
But with tha~ understandable
occasionally
their
operate,
collective
only way that
free
coalition.
sultation
is taken.
action
matter;
we have.
consultation,
reservation
which
and others
in \iashingt_on with
And that
is the
c·an be made e:trecti ve in a
If it were a Communist coalition,
wouldn't
partnership
action
any
with anybody else!
they do consult
before
friend.s
is
in an
If "our" means not only -the United States
the coalition,
their
stated
to· respond vigor·ously
Then there
"means".
it
should fail,
part of his speech (I quote f'rom another
"The way to deter
word
surely
that word "our" should mean those who have
banded together
to win war.
concerned,
but that
Yet that
con-
is not the kind of
kind of free. and full
which is the only wo.y by which defense
and diplomatic
cooperation
and inevitably
will
have a bearing
because the two things
I know that,
can be made .effective,
planning
undoubtedly
on the word ttinstantlytt
have to be reconciled.
even 1_nyour own country,
there
1s
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a good deal of worry about the reconciliation
retaliation
ment.
with consultation
If that
within
you can se.e the problems that
this
new doctrine
with,
is the third
our worries
by the knowledge
word
(I am not complaining
"atomic"
means.
be used,
be done and the effect
(explosive
important
it
about it.because
know) that
That raises
problems about
the occasions
when 1t should
possibly
in more respects
it may have.
All this
seems to me to add up to one thing;
which has been important.
.now, if this
Our pre•
word are increased
I don't
war,
when atomic means will
diplomacy,
in reconciling
meanstt.
0
about this
may be .the best way to prevent
than one) that
arise
will
is obvious)
with allies.
Then there
ttmeans0 ·includes
it
govern-
of immediate overwhelming retaliation
with consultation
occupation
the notional
(and it is true,
is true
of instant·
kind of doctrine
than ever.
in recent
is put into
By diplomacy
years
effect,.
is
more
I mean two things.
I
mean the etfort,~h1ch
should be patient
to settle
with those whom we rear behind the
differences
If in fact
iron curtain.
any \tar is now going to bo an
overwhelming retaliatorypart
is going to result
not necessarily
atomic war, if any move on .their
in that
quarreling
the best way to prevent
the field
satisfactory
kind of action
about this
aggression)
be done, and if the day of little
then surely
and persistent,
it means we will
(I am
because it max be
1f that
aggressions
is going
to
is over,
have to work far harder
in
of diplomacy to try to work out some kind of
arrangement
have to operate
in that
with those against
way if things
from making diplomacy less
important
diplomaoy with the Communists),
whom we would
went wrone.
(I am talking
So, far
of
it m~kes it more important.
That is one reason why it was wise to have the Berlin
conference
even though it didn 1 t accomplish
very much, and
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why I think it 1s wise to have the forthcoming
Gene\ta
conference.
There 1s another kind of diplomacy which 1s now
also more important
than ever;
agreement between friends
on policy
choosing" will
timing so that"our
decision,
tha_t is,
the search for
and tactics
mean an agreed collective
and one which won•t prejudice
an emergency.
Indeed,
agreement within
discussion,
if this
speedy action
as I told the press today,
the coalition,
after
to put it bluntly,
policy
is absolutely
of preventing
aggression
the slogan of other
countries
be •No annihilation
without
as good as "No taxation
Therefore
1s to work
consultation".
without
are my closing
today,
friendly
or those
together.
!tis
and, indeed,
countries
between Canada and the United States.
1n that
qualifications
American accent.
in the state
that
is now more
than
We in Canada have
we have often
between the United
We have some special
for we speak English
with an
that
we Canadians put it that way
had in mind was 0 work1ng both sides ot
Well, there
is a respectable
are
Jack Hickerson used to say when he was
Department,
but what we really
the street".
regard
there
is easier,
- indeed,
boasted of the role - ot interpreter
-
should work
surely
where cooperation
in the past been given the role
observations
it becomes more
countries,
and the United Kingdom.
almost
representation•.
- and these
than ever that
with you, will
not any two in the world where cooperation
States
necessary
by the threat
associated
in the world in which we live
important
and
If you want to put it 1n a catch phrase,
collectively.
closely
in
such
consultation
of immediate and overwhelming devastation
important
and
objective
1s nothing wrong in that;
of diplomacy? It is true,
in the past a Canadian representative
that
however,
abroad could on
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be o.f · some. service
oocas1ons
From
owz:ipersonal
my
experience
or interpreter.
role
in this
- and I served in London
and in Washington - I found that when I was in Washington
I intuitively
used to put the.British.point
1n terms an Englishman wouldntt dare do
occasionally
because he couldn't
London I.found
English
get away with it.
myself often
they didn't
and that
of view and
But equally.in
and automatically
r'3ally understand
they shouldn't
them as well as ve did,
telling
the
the Americans at all,
act like that,
and 1f they knew
they wouldn'tt etc.
etc.
Recently we have been given a new opportunity
Canada to be of some value 1n this
the United States
don't
know this
inclined.to
field
to other countries
of the free
t~is
country in.terms
kind of news which they get about it.
the headlines,
they think there
in Canada.
By
world who
of the wrong
not l:ooking behind
1s nothing else.
So possibly
in closing
read to you what our own Prime Minister
in India.
by interpreting
country as well as we do, and who.are
interpret
differently
in
We know
I might just
said the other day
He ha~ been in lsia
on a journey which, from
was
our point of view in Canada,/a very useful and important
trip.
to think it has also been·· of some value to
I like
the United States.
not the easiest
nice things
Before the India~ Legislative
audience in the world at this
he had this
about the United States
to say, as a Canadian talking
to an .,sian
!•The United. States",
audience.
said Mr. St. Laurent,
could have said it in F~ench or English,
powerful nation
in this
.A.swe. see it,
of the postwar period,
collective
the readiness
benefit
and he
"much .the most
arrangement,
in the light
to assume the responsibilities
a very great
time to say
about .~merioans t a.nd on the eve of your military
aid for Pakistan
leader.
lssembly,
is its
of all the circumstances
of the United States
of a major power has been
to the free
world.
We who live
along
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),I
· side of this
great
and dynamic nation
long experience
that
selfish
ever to play this
country
ambition
the United States
than to live
helpful
know from our own
international
and let
is the most un-
role,
others
and it has no other
live
intercourse.
in mutually
WhatAver those of us
who do not bear the arduous responsibility
think
or particular
from time to time
are thankful
both through
the United states
freedom for themselves
"As their
fury
we have special
the qual1t1es
presented
by films
that
outlook
of
Through the sound and
clamor and behind the blurr~d
and popular
reason
of the .Americans
in the fundamental
government over the years·.
of contemporaty
and by instinct
others.
close neighbors,
Which have been reflected
their
we Canadians
people are devoted to peace and
and !or all
to know and appreciate
proposals,
experience
and its
of the role may
magazines,
picture
we in Canada see
m'1111ons of good people who are working hard and un;
selfishly
to build
of peace.
a good ~nd free
These people differ
rrom the
qualities
great
or in mine, or, for that
society
little
majori~y·of
matter,
.
in a world
in their
essential
people in your country
in any
country
in the
world."
Notwithstanding
gentlemen,
States.
our transitory
is the reeling
I end by putting
words which, I hope, won't
difficulties,
or Canadians
for the United
t~at
in the following
thought
be m1sund~rstood.
relationship
is much like
that
sometimes it
is difficult
to live with her,
it
is impossible
to live
that,
without
Our
between a man and his wite;
at all
times
her.
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Lester B. Pearson speech, "Canada in the World Today," 15 Mar. 1954, LAC, RG 25, vol. 4903, file no. 50115-P-40, part 2.
continental defence
Dwight Eisenhower
General Craig
Lester Pearson
PJBD
US-Canada relations