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Pages THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday Decembers 1989 Book review OUR LANGUAGE Author chronicles friendship between Mitch and Mike By CYNTHIA SMITH Journalist Peter Stursberg master of the oral history tradi tion has produced another brisk biography that compliments his volumes on and Pearson His loth book provides a fitting description of hat Stursberg describes as the Damon and Pythias relationship of two of Canada s most prominent public men Roland and Mike Pearson Stursberg s latest Roland The Last Viceroj 237 pages might be more propnateh subtitled Mitch and Mike for it is in essence the chronicle long and loyal friend ship began on the Oxford team where the two scholarship winners from Canada both sons of Methodist clergymen forged a lifelong friendship that crossed political party lines Lester Mike Pearson chose academe the diplomatic corps and Mas recruited to the Liberal Roland law Bav Street and a cabinet post in the On tario legislature under Ton premier George Drew whom he later followed to the federal House After a somewhat confusing and disjointed introduction the book swings into high gear and is as in for its description of On tano and federal politics as It is for its portraval of We are guen a sympathetic trait of an optimistic man whose prominence as a Bay Street lawyer and an Ontario cabinet minister was not to be continued in Ottawa where he languished as a backbencher and in his own words did nothing spec tacular The hoped for cabinet post never came mainly due to John strong an tipathy to the patrician Michener who had remained quiet during the Tory leadership campaign Diefen baker assumed correctly in this case that those who were not en for him were against him Rescued from the of the back bench served for five years as Speaker of the House of Commons He and his ambitious bilingual wife their best to elevate the Speakership from be ing considered a consolation prize for those who didn quite make cabinet to a post of distinction As Speaker he enjoyed the respect of all parties but less from the press Norah Michener was as keen on the post as was her husband and was so often in the House that she was given the malicious of Madame Speaker bv the press corps In between her elegant entertainments she found time to write books of protocol for the wives of MPs Had the discus of creating a permanent Speakership ever come to fruition Michener would have sought it His years as Speaker were those he cherished most FD The Tories slid to government in then tht Liberals under Pearson won the election Mitch was rescued b his good fnend Mike He was of fered the of High Commis sioner to India which both Michener and Pearson saw as good neutral position from which to rise to the governor generalship After Georges Vainer death in Michener was appointed governor general and the last third of the book is dev to these years in which pomp and protocol rendered the position akin to that of v icerov It is alleged that Mitchell Sharp resented the attention being paid the vice regal couple on their famous grand lour of the Benelux countries which overshadowed his own role as Minister of Ex Affairs He pressured Pierre who succeeded as prime minister to lower the profile of the position The Micheners last major overseas ex travaganza was a trip to Iran VITEX SPECIAL BEST PERFORMER 8088 640 RAM 1 Floppy Philips Monitor Call Bill at Vitex Specializing In affordable PCs and Peripherals for home and small business use DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC AW TRENTON DT 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY S AND CULTURAL CENTRE 8772359 After that official were con f to Canada As governor general faced three major political crises including the fatal night in 1968 when with Pear son rehxing on a beach the Liberals failed to maintain ficienl attendance to keep a ma in the House and were defeated by the Tones on a tax bill Pearsons rage and Tory leader Robert Stanf leld honor which put the economic stabihtv of the country ahead of politics led to the avoidance of an election and the continuants of the government Another was the October Crisis of when was forced to invoke the War Measures Act The third and most trying involved the formilien of the minontv government elected on Oct 30 1972 when Stanfield wab but two seats awav asking to form a minority government spnnkled with dotes quotations and personal reminiscences Stursberg s book warmly portrays Canada s most famous jogger although it is much less kind to his wife Few men can claim to have a mountain in the Rockies named after them Pwer still could climb that mountain at the age of This is an important addition to the shelf of political books about the Diefenbaker Pearson and early years Political buffs will enjoy it Smith was the editor of Sir John A An Anecdotal Life of John A and associate editor of the Oxford Book of Political Anecdotes Step up increases or raises as in step up production If anyone tries to use step up incorrectly put your foot down The highest 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