[3] In the 1962 hit film based on Ryan's book, a fictionalized portrayal of Lynch's pigeon accusation is shown taking place on Sword Beach, by a British correspondent.

[4] He then moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to become Reuters' chief South American correspondent.

[5] Lynch moved back to Canada in 1958 to assume the role of Ottawa Bureau Chief of Southam News.

"[6] General Lauris Norstad's affirmative answer,[7] and Diefenbaker's subsequent statements in response would eventually lead to the Progressive Conservative Party's loss in the April elections.

As a working journalist, Lynch sent home dispatches vividly describing his impressions of the country's politics and people under Chairman Mao Zedong.

The trip is notable because it was sanctioned by the Chinese government — almost unheard of for a journalist at the time, and the fact that it chronicles life in China from a Western perspective less than a year before the start of the Cultural Revolution.

Lynch's dispatches were ultimately edited and compiled into what became the journalist's first book: China, One Fourth of the World, which became a Canadian best-seller.

In 1977, Lynch was made an Officer of the Order of Canada as an acknowledgment of "the vitality, insight and integrity he has shown during his forty years of reporting the news.