by Mohamed Tawfik Al-Mansouri

Created on: March 11, 2009

The Book Launch of the Biography of the Former Prime Minister of Canada the Late Lester B. Pearson

M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D., The Afnan's Executive Editorial Secretary, Ottawa, CANADA: Thursday, March 5th , 2009 at 7.30 to 9.00 p.m, The Canadian Nordic Society presented by Lennard Sillanp, Ph.D., hosted a presentation by Andrew Cohen on Canada's Nobel Prize Winner: Lester B. Pearson and the Suez Crisis, based on Cohen's biography, Canadian, Lester B. Pearson.

The book entitled" Lester B. Pearson " , which was written by Andrew Cohen, the journalist and the associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa.

A review and reading of a biography of the Late Prime Minister of Canada at the Army Officers' Mess at 149 Somerset St. West.

The author was questioned by audience, and comments were added by Her Excellency Ingrid Iremark, the Ambassador of Sweden, and by His Excellency Tor Berntin Naess, the Ambassador of Norway.

The admission was free, and jacket and tie were necessary clothing.

The Book was published by Penguin Group ( Canada), and printed in the U.S.A. It costs 25 Canadian Dollars, tax included.

The introduction was written by John Ralston Saul, the essayist, who has a growing reputation as a thinker.

Andrew Cohen, does not criticize the decisions of Lester B. Pearson about nuclear tipped missiles in Canada, installed and controlled by the United Sates of America.

Lester B. Pearson laid the groundwork for the creation of the state of Israel in 1947. During the crisis of 1956 when, the United Kingdom, France and "Israel" attacked Egypt, also Pearson proposed and sponsored the resolution, which created the United Nations Emergency Force to police that area aiming to protect the new Zionist State. These are the reasons that Andrew Cohen supported Pearson.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau , said Pearson was a " defrocked priest of peace" because of this policy.

According to The Nobel Prize.Org: Lester Bowles Pearson (April 23, 1897-1972) has been noted for his diplomatic sensitivity, his political acumen, and his personal popularity. He is affectionately called Mike, a nickname given to him by his flying instructor in World War I, who discarded Lester as being insufficiently bellicose.

Born in Toronto of Irish stock on both sides of his family, he received a balanced education in politics, learning the conservative position from his father, a Methodist minister, and the liberal

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