bout de papier, Volume 3, Issue No. 3, 1985
Mike’s World
IN A RECENT GLOBE AND MAIL COLUMN, John Ibbitson complained that, with the switch of Champagne for Garneau, Canada has had 14 foreign ministers in just over 20 years. 14! And many of them non-memorable. We grump about Canada’s loss of credibility…
Pearson’s Prize: Canada and the Suez Crisis
Over the last few years, it has become almost de rigueur for world weary policymakers and hip international analysts to dismiss Pearsonian peacekeeping as quaintly old-fashioned. In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 world, peacekeeping has been replaced by peace building and peace enforcement…
From Nihon to Nasser: Herbert Norman’s Diplomacy During the Suez Crisis
FROM TOKYO TO CAIRO Much has been written about Herbert Norman in the context of his contributions to our understanding of Japanese history and the extended anti-Communist witch hunt in the United States that eventually caused him to take his own life.…
The Diplomacy of L.B. Pearson
by Geoffrey Pearson
Malcolm MacDonald: Bringing an End to Empire
In many ways Malcolm MacDonald lived a charmed life. Although not born into a wealthy family, as the son of Ramsay MacDonald — Labour leader and future prime minister — his early life was filled with interesting and increasingly well-connected people. He…
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…
