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Reds and (Cordons) Rouges: Bennett and Skelton in Geneva
step of insisting that he, not Bennett, was the Canadian spokesperson at the key committee meeting on the Soviet candidacy. Skelton’s speech, as Bennett wished, took “a whack at the Rooshians,” making a frontal assault on the Soviet experiment in Communist rule.
Woman of the World: Mary McGeachy and International Cooperation
Ah, the great names of Canadian diplomacy — Lester Pearson, Norman Robertson, Marcel Cadieux, Mary McGeachy. “Mary who?” you may ask. You would be forgiven for not knowing that a Canadian was among the few women to achieve senior rank at the…
(Also in) Paris 1919
Margaret MacMillan, the Provost of Trinity College and Professor of History at the University of Toronto, has earned international acclaim for her elegant, witty and remarkably comprehensive account of the Paris Peace Conference, which was published first in the United Kingdom as…
Mackenzie King’s Italian Holidays
As we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of the most successful politician in Canadian history (and, according to Norman Hillmer and Jack Granatstein, Canada’s greatest prime minister), it seems appropriate to shed additional light on the illustrious career of W.L.…
Words Not Deeds
Nearly a decade after the “war to end all wars” statesmen gathered in Paris to sign the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, more commonly known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact in honour of its principal sponsors, American Secretary of State Frank…
A World Mission: Canadian Protestantism and the Quest for a New International Order, 1918-1939
Reviewed by Don Page This is a book that is long overdue in Canadian historiography because it brings to light the importance of religious thinking on Canadian attitudes towards international events. The author has written a series of topical essays on the…
Paul Martin, 1903-1992
There will be a great variety of assessments of the life and work of the Right Honourable Paul Martin. It is fitting however that bout de papier contain an early appreciation of his service in the Department of External Affairs.
