Sovereignty or Security: Government Policy in the Canadian North, 1936-1950
This book has been eagerly awaited since 1982 when Ms. Grant first presented her views in a paper entitled The Northern Nationalists: Crusaders and Supporters of a ‘New North’: 1940-1950. Without trying to be condescending, this is a competent book and one…
Second World War; Struggle for Survival; On Guard for Thee; A Nation Forged in Fire; Wartime
The Second World War has retained its fascination for readers, authors and publishers alike, as the plethora of volumes to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its formal beginning amply indicated. That interest is certainly understandable. Its imagery, vocabulary, characters and events are…
Games of Intelligence, The Ultra Spy and Churchill’s Secret Agent, Codename ‘Jay Bee’
Nigel West is the pseudonym for Rupert Allason, a conservative MP for the Home Counties who has written a number of popular but controversial histories of Britain’s intelligence and security organizations. He also has written a spy novel.
The Birth of the PJBD
August 18, 1990 marked the 50th Anniversary of the so-called “Ogdensburg „Declaration” which established the Canada-USA Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD). Ironically, on that precise date two years before the PJBD came into being, President Franklin Roosevelt, who may have been…
A Little Mix-Up in the Mail
This article is adapted from a chapter of Sidney Freifeld’s new book Undiplomatic Notes: Tales from the Canadian Foreign Service, to be published by Hounslow Press in October. The book will be illustrated, like this article, with drawings by Susan Macartney.
Things Remembered: External Affairs in 1939
by Benjamin Rogers
1945: Reflections from Canada House
One of Canada’s most distinguished commentators and scholars in the area of foreign policy and external affairs, John Holmes died on August 13, 1988. In this article, originally a lecture delivered at Carleton University, he explored some of the foreign policy conundrums…
Waldheim Fooled Canada Too
Amid all the brouhaha over the World War II activities of Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria and former two-term Secretary General of the United Nations, it seems to have been forgotten that Canada was the first country to which Austria appointed him…
The Canadian Residence in the Hague
Since the end of the Second World War, Canada and the Netherlands have enjoyed harmonious and close relations of a unique character. These are symbolized by an attractive well-located Chancery designed by a Canadian architect in the neo-classic or Beaux Arts style,…
Mr. Mackenzie King and the Onset of War, 1937-1941
by James A. Gibson
