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Article: Seeing & believing: The man who might have been & the politics of Canadian innocence.
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- Take One
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- September 22, 1999
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From our perspective, here in the midst of the final entropic spasms of the 20th century, it is difficult to imagine a world in which former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson could be described as "the most dangerous man alive." The very idea is laughable. Yet in the paranoiac anti-communist maelstrom on the 1950s, an American newspaper characterized the future Nobel Peace Prize laureate as precisely that.
From an American perspective, the reasons are simple: this Canadian renegade, then the Minister for External Affairs, resisted allowing the ferocious and destructive U. S. government's communist witch hunts to bleed across the border, employed avowedly ...