The Uneasy Alliance: Religion, Refugee Work, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Reviewed by Gerald Dirks
Diplomacy of Fear: Canada and the Cold War, 1941-1948
by Donald Barry
Our Man in Moscow — A Diplomat’s Reflections on the Soviet Union
by Peter Roberts
La grande illusion
Compte rendu par J.E. Ghislain Hardy
The Joys of Renting….
by Carol N. Markham
The Brass Ring — Power, Influence and the Brascan Empire
The history of Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company (in 1969 the name was changed to Brascan) from its beginnings at the end of the 19th century until the great pull-out from Brazil in 1979, is covered in nine pages of this…
Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean
The Commonwealth Caribbean has had ties with Canada stretching back into the eighteenth century colonial system. Yet it, like Latin America, to which it is now more bureaucratically linked, has remained less attractive to the aspiring foreign service officer than other parts…
The Golden Hope
Peter Stursberg, noted World War II CBC correspondent and eminent practitioner of oral history, has taped interviews with three score Canadian missionaries and their children, Sinologists and Chinese to try to record and evaluate the aims and achievements of 60 years of…
Spearhead To Victory: Canada And the Great War
Modern Canadians are uncomfortable with the thought that a warrior spirit lurks in their history and heritage. The Canadian shock trooper, armed to the teeth, bayonet fixed, equipped with a sometime “no-prisoners approach” to the grim business of war, striking fear and…
Spoils of Power: The Politics of Patronage
Canadian journalists are unquestionably better on the average today than used to be the case: better educated, better trained, and less likely to be party-lining hacks. But it is a rare journalist in Canada now or ever who has a genuine scholarly…
