Words & Occasions / Lester B. Pearson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearson, Lester B., Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pearson, Lester B.

Canada.

Canada--Politics and government--1945-1980.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A portrait in words of Lester Pearson, this volume contains his own selection of his speeches and writings from 1924 to 1968 on a wide variety of topics - serious and frivolous, political and non-political - with introductions which serve as an autobiographical and interpretative link carrying the reader forward through his career.

Contents:

pt. I. 1924-1948. 1. The Game's the Thing

2. The New History

3. To a Church Group in Ottawa

4. Cards on the Table

5. Topics of the Day

6. Canada and the United States

7. At a Farewell Dinner in London

8. The Road to War

9. To the Staff of UNRRA

10. Canada and the San Francisco Conference

11. some Principles of Canadian Foreign Policy

pt. II. 1949-1957. 12. To the Ontario Municipal Association

13. From the Honourable Member from Algoma East

14. On Signing the North Atlantic Treaty

15. The Implications of a Free Society

16. In Reply to a USSR Peace Resolution

17. Canadian Foreign Policy in a Two-Power World

18. On My Installation as Chancellor of Victoria College

19. To the United Nations Correspondents' Association 20. To the Ontario Liberal Association

21. International Public Relations

22. Christian Foundations for World Order

23. Impressions of the Russians and Their Leaders

24. The Atlantic Community

25. On the Middle East Crisis

26. The Tragedy of Hungary

pt. III. 1957-1963. 27. To the National Liberal Convention

28. St. Andrew's Day Address

29. Politics, Opposition, and the Plight of Democracy

20. Education: The Creation of Finer Human Hungers

31. At the Toronto Freedom Festival

32. Tensions in the Western Hemisphere

33. The Canadian Partnership

34. On Canadian Defence Policy

pt. IV. 1963-1968. 35. A l'Association des hebdomadaires de langue francaise du Canada

36. Before the Eighteenth Session of the United Nations

27. A Toast to the President of France

38. At a Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner

39. To the Royal Canadian Legion

40. Mrs. Pearson Speaks

41. At the Federal Provincial Conference, Charlottetown

42. From the Commons Flag Debate

43. To the Toronto and District Liberal Association

44. On the Inauguration of Canada's National Flag

45. On Television with Pierre Berton

46. At the Atlantic Award Dinner

47. On Lighting the Centennial Flame

48. Vimy, Fifty Years After

49. To the Canadian Political Science Association

50. Expo, and a Welcome to the Queen

51. My Undelivered Toast to General de Gaulle

52. I Announce My Retirement

53. Adieu to the Parliamentary Press Gallery

54. At the Liberal Leadership Convention.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7478-9

OCLC:

1129160835