Lester B. Pearson Quotes
As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.
Pearson, Lester B. "The Four Faces of Peace." Les Prix Nobel en 1957, edited by Göran Liljestrand, Imprimerie Royale P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1958, pp. 219-236.
Eisenhower was clear on this point but the neoconservatives of the Republican party advocated just the opposite and decades later would influence American foreign policy to have a different view and aggressively export American democracy as in the Iraq War.
MacArthur wanted to widen the Korean war and use nuclear weapons against Communist China, after erroneously assuring Truman and other American leaders that his tactics in North Korea would not cause Chinese troops to enter the war. MacArthur would not obey the orders of the civilian government and was thus fired.
Actually drafted by Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles
Lester Bowles Pearson PC OM CC OBE was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. He was the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968, as the head of two back-to-back Liberal minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965.
