Lester B. Pearson was the Canadian Minister of External Affairs when he won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in resolving the Suez Canal Crisis. Pictured here, Pearson displaying the Nobel ...

Minister of External Affairs Lester B. Pearson cautioned against succumbing "to the black madness of the witch hunt" when Canada began to track down homegrown communists in the early 1950s.

Former Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Lester Pearson examines the current state of global political and economic development and the prospects for world peace.