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Seize the day : Lester B. Pearson and crisis diplomacy / by Geoffrey A.H. Pearson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pearson, Geoffrey A. H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pearson, Lester B.
- Prime ministers--Canada--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- Canada--Foreign relations.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 190 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this uniquely informed account of Pearson's foreign policy in the years 1948-1957, his son places the
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Table Of Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: The Minister and the Department in 1948: From King to St. Laurent
- CHAPTER 2: The Wider World in 1948
- CHAPTER 3: Creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Alliance or Community?
- CHAPTER 4: The Colombo Plan, 1950: Helping the New Asia
- CHAPTER 5: The Shock of Korea, 1950
- CHAPTER 6: The Ultimate Weapon: Canada, the United States, and the Atomic Bomb
- CHAPTER 7: Indochina Surprise, 1954
- CHAPTER 8: The China Puzzle: "Don't Let Asia Split the West
- CHAPTER 9: Seize the Day: Suez, 1956
- CHAPTER 10: A Pearsonian Consensus?
- NOTES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-7384-4
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