DISCREET SILENCE
Washington Reaction (N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) WASHINGTON, February 6. Official Washington adopted a policy of discreet silence today on the fall of Mr Diefenbaker. There were no cries of approval, but neither were there any loud lamments, the Associated Press said. Relations between Canada and the United States have been tense much of the time since Mr Diefenbaker became Prime Minister and United States leaders obviously were not upset by his political misfortune.
What does seem to have distressed President Kennedy and the Secretary of State, Mi Dean Rusk, is that the United States played such a role in bringing about the collapse of the Diefenbaker Government United States officials insisted that the United States action was not designed as a political bombshell—at least not as great a bombshell.
Mr Kennedy and Mr Rusk, according to Administration reports, were not directly involved in the issuing a week age of the State Department statement which precipitated the crisis. In a time of turmoil in a neighbouring country the United States normally would keep quiet. The present situation is considered here to be especially delicate.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30051, 8 February 1963, Page 12
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