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Canada and the cost of World War II : the international operations of Canada's Department of Finance, 1939-1947 / Robert B. Bryce ; edited by Matthew J. Bellamy ; foreword by Gordon Robertson, afterword by J.L. Granatstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryce, Robert B. (Robert Broughton), 1910-
- Series:
- Carleton library series ; 204.
- Carleton library series ; 204
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finance, Public--Canada.
- Finance, Public.
- World War, 1939-1945--Finance--Canada.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Canada--Appropriations and expenditures.
- Canada.
- Canada. Department of Finance--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bryce chronicles in splendid detail how the tiny and overburdened department in Ottawa worked behind the scenes to deal with the critical public policy challenges that accompanied World War II and postwar reconstruction. Canada's financial aid made it possible for Britain to wage an effective war and then deal with the destruction it wrought. Bryce details how Canada's Department of Finance can also be credited with overcoming some of Britain's most pressing balance-of-payments problems after the war.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Unprepared Beginnings
- The EAC and Trade Problems
- The Air Training Plan Negotiations
- Financing Britain
- Scarce us Dollars and the Hyde Park Declaration
- US Economic Arrangements and Dollars Galore
- Mutual Aid to Allies
- Financing Britain Further and Keynes’s Visits
- Working up to Bretton Woods
- International Institutions
- The 1946 British Loan and Settlement
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Sequel to Maturing in hard times.
- Includes index.
- Originally an unpublished document, written 1990, and sent to C. Scott Clark, Deputy Minister of Finance, on Sept. 3, 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-383) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-7305-4
- OCLC:
- 560352782
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