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For the fifth time in Commonwealth history, the organization’s leaders gathered in London with the ever-increasing tensions between the West and the communist world as backdrop. The Korean War was the epicentre of the world’s instability at the time. Prime Minister St.-Laurent represented Canada at the high-level talks.
Historian Dale Thomson, who served in Prime Minister St.-Laurent’s office, later wrote a biography of the 12PM. In it he described his chief’s demeanor at this Commonwealth conference. “Throughout the ten-day meeting, St.-Laurent maintained the same calm, pragmatic approach that he displayed in Ottawa,” Thomson wrote.
The trip to London also gave St.-Laurent the opportunity to lay out his vision for the organization. “The Commonwealth will survive if we don’t try to force too much integration on it,” Canada’s PM said in a speech to a British audience. “Since it has no central organs of government, there can, of course, be no such thing as a Commonwealth policy as such, though there can be, and most often is, identity of policies among the nations of the Commonwealth.
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