Phone Home, Mike Pearson
“The oddest thing has happened, Liebnitz.” said Chief MacBannock as the ace logician entered the conference room. “This morning, as I logged onto my computer, I noticed an E-mail dated 12/15/94 with the subject line “PROXIMA MISSION”. When I brought it up,…
Pearson and Canada’s Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957
Commentators on postwar Canadian diplomacy have frequently explored their subject through interpretative syntheses that cut broad swaths through the events of the late 1940s and the 1950s. Designed as contributions to the perpetual national debate on Canada’s place in the international system…
Best-Kept Secret (Canadian Intelligence in the Second World War)
This seems just another book about Canada’s secret wartime activities and exploits. It is much more than that. It is a skillfully researched, well-constructed, clearly-presented account of Canada’s successful entry in wartime into the highly secret, arcane business of communications intelligence. It…
Seize the Day: Lester B. Pearson and Crisis Diplomacy
Students of Canadian foreign policy, members of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and former colleagues of Lester Pearson already owe a considerable debt to Geoffrey Pearson for their appreciation of his father’s life and his…
Documents on Canadian External Relations, Vol. 19, 1953
This hefty volume (it weighs two kilograms) covers a single year. It was a year of startling events on the world stage: the inauguration of a new Republican Presidency in the United States which ended twenty years of Democratic dominance; the death…
Memories of Mike Pearson
by John Edward Belliveau
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.
Lester Pearson and the UN Secretary Generalship, 1953
The inclusion of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s name on the official list of candidates to succeed former United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar during last fall’s Security Council deliberations was not the first time that a Canadian had been formally…
Apartment Hunting in Paris — A Liberal Education — Part II
During his long and truly distinguished career in External Affairs, Charles Ritchie held such top posts abroad as Ambassador to the United States, High Commissioner in London, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Permanent Representative…
Diplomatic Anecdotes
A history professor at Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, B.C., Gordon Martel has combed nearly three hundred diplomatic memoirs for anecdotes illustrative of the life and work of Foreign Service officers abroad over the past century. Six excerpts from this collection…
