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Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction- The Post-war Revolution in Canadian Foreign Policy

I. The Establishment of the United Nations

1. Postwar International Organization: The Functional Principle

2. Functional Representation and the Proposed Security Council

3. Canadian Views on the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, 1945

4. Resolution in Parliament on Invitation to San Francisco

5. Statements on the Resolution by the Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King

6. Statement by the Prime Minister at the San Francisco Conference, April 27, 1945

7. Canadian Amendments on the Economic and Social part of the United Nations Charter

8. Report to Parliament on the San Francisco Conference

II. Peacemaking in Europe

1. Canada’s Right to Participate in Peace-Making

2. Canada’s Interest in the Peace Settlement

3. The Italian Treaty

4. Extracts from the Debate in Parliament on the Paris Peace Conference

5. The Issue of Canadian Participation in a Peace Settlement With Germany

6. Canadian Submission on the German Peace Settlement

7. Recognition of the Federal German Republic

8. Proclamation of Termination of State of War With Germany: July 21, 1951

9. Canadian Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Re-establishment of an Independent and Democratic Austria

10. Canadian Views on Trieste

11. Submission on Disposal of Former Italian Colonies

III. Post- War Economic Policy

A. Reconversion

1. Employment and Income with special reference to the initial period of reconstruction

C. The General Assembly and the Maintenance of Peace and Security

6. Establishment of an Interim Committee of the General Assembly

7. Statement on "Uniting for Peace” Resolution

D. Control of Atomic Energy: Disarmament

8. Joint Declaration on A tomic Energy

9. Comments on the Joint Declaration

10. United Nations Resolution on the Establishment of a Commission to deal with the Problems raised by the Discovery of Atomic Energy

11. The Veto in the Atomic Energy and the Disarmament Commissions

12. Comparison of United States and U.S.S.R. Plans

13. The Canadian Position

14. Canadian Reply to Soviet Proposals for Disarmament

15. Progress of Disarmament as of 1953

V. The United Nations: Pacific Settlement Of Disputes; Promotion of The General Welfare

A. The Pacific Settlement of International Disputes

1. A Middle Power in the United Nations

B. Palestine

2. Canadian Policy

(a) Canada Votes for Partition

(b) Suspension of the Partition Plan

(c) Conditions of a Settlement

C. The Indonesian Question

3. Canadian Policy

(a) Extract from DEA, Canada and the United Nations 1948

(b) Extract from DEA, Canada and the United Nations 1949

D. Kashmir

4 (a) Kashmir - Canada’s Concern in the Dispute

(b) Canada's Policy

5. Canadian Policy in the Security Council in Retrospect

E. Race Relations

6. The Colonial Issue

7.Race Relations in South Africa

F. Human Rights

8. Human Rights

9. Human Rights- Canadian Views on the Draft Covenants

G. Economic and Social Council

10. Canadian Administrative Procedure on United Nations Matters

VI. From Collective Security to Collective Defence: N.A.T.O.

A. Retreat from Europe

1. Withdrawal of Canadian Forces from Occupational Duties, 1946

(a) Statement by the Secretary of State for External Affairs, Mr. L. S. St. Laurent, March 3,1947

(b) Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, March 10,1947

B. Towards Collective Defence

2. The Brussels Treaty

3. Canada and Collective Security

4. Need for a New Security Organization

5. From the Brussels Pact to the North Atlantic Treaty

6. Signing the Treaty

7. North Atlantic Treaty

C. Build-Up and Expansion of N.A.T.O.

8. The Canadian Contribution to the Military Build-up of N.A.T.O.

10. Article 2

11. Accession of Greece and Turkey

12. Canada’s Stake in N.A.T.O.

D. The Accession of the Federal Republic of Germany

13. Debate in Parliament

(a) Statement by the Secretary of State for External Affairs, Mr. L. B. Pearson, January 20, 1955

(b) Opposition Leaders and Private Members

VII. Continental Defence

A. Defence Objectives

1. Statement by the Minister of National Defence, Mr. D. C. Abbott, August 19, 1946

2. Canada's Defence Policy, 1947

3. Canada's Defence Programme 1949-50

4. Canada’s Defence Programme 1951-52

B. The Documentary Basis of Joint Defence with the United States

5. Joint Statement by the Governments of Canada And The United States of America Regarding Defence Co-Operation Between the Two Countries and Statement by the Prime Minister Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King

6. The Permanent Joint Board on Defence

C. Specific Arrangements for Joint Defence

7. Proposed Establishment of Weather Stations in the Arctic

8. Armed Forces in Churchill

9. Standardization and the Role of Canada’s Forces

10. Reciprocal Defence Purchasing

11. Collaboration in Civil Defence

12. The “Pine Tree” Agreement

13. After the Russian Thermo-Nuclear Explosion

14. Joint Announcement by the Governments of Canada and the United States on the Mid-Canada and Distant Early Warning (D.E.W.) Lines, November 19, 1954

D. Newfoundland and North America Defence

15. Revision of the Leased Bases Agreement of 1941 as applying to United States Bases in Newfoundland

E. Canada and United States Defence Policy

16. Reaction to the Dulles Policy of Massive Retaliation

17. Continental Defence Attitudes and United States Commitments

VIII. The St. Lawrence Seaway And Power Development

1. Canada Prepared to Undertake the Seaway Alone

2. Parallel Applications to the International Joint Commission

3. Lapse of Agreement of 1941

4. Construction of Iroquois Dam and Other Works

5. Modification of Agreement of June 30, 1952

6. The Case for Joint Construction

IX. The Far East And South-East Asia

A. Peace-Making with Japan

1. Proposals for a Peace Conference

2. Commonwealth Conference on Japanese Peace Problems at Canberra

3. Soviet Attitude on Procedures

4. Comment on the Treaty

5. The Fisheries Convention

6. The Trade Agreement with Japan

B. Korea

7. The Issue of Participation to Meet Aggression

(a) Statement by the Secretary of State for External Affairs, Mr. L. B. Pearson, June 28, 1950

(b) Comments of Private Members in Parliament

(c) Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. L. S. St. Laurent, June 30, 1950

8. Exchange of Correspondence on Contribution of Forces

(a) Acting Permanent Delegate of Canada to the United Nations to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, July 12, 1950

(b) Telegram from Secretary-General to Acting Canadian Permanent Delegate, July 14, 1950

(c) Acting Permanent Delegate of Canada to Secretary-General, August 11, 1950

(d) Permanent Representative of Canada to Secretary- General, August 14, 1950

(e) Secretary-General to Permanent Representative, August 21, 1950

9. Implications of Aggression

10. Issues During the War

(a) On crossing the 38th parallel and on branding Communist China as an aggressor

(b) Limited military objectives and the position of Formosa

11. The Search for a Settlement

(a) General objectives

(b) Points in dispute in the armistice talks

(c) Participants in a Political Conference

(d ) Proposals fora Peace Conference

12. United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency

13. The Question of a Pacific Pact

C. The Geneva Conference 1954

14. Korea - Communist Proposals; Canadian Policy

15. Failure of the Geneva Conference on Korea

16. Indochina — Canadian Views on a Regional Solution

17. Indochina - Membership on International Commissions

(a) Invitation from the Geneva Conference, July 21, 1954

(b) Reply to invitation, July 27, 1954

18. Statement on Canadian Membership on the International Commissions for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, July 27, 1954

D. China Policy

19. Canada’s Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights

20. Repeal of Chinese Immigration Act

21. The Communist Takeover

22. Recognition of Communist China

(a) Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. L. S. St. Laurent, March 25,1954

(b) Statement by the Secretary of State for External Affairs, Mr. L. B. Pearson, for the “Peoples School”, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N.S., November 7,1954

24. The Formosa Straits

X. Commonwealth Relations

A. The Nature of the Commonwealth

1. Consultation between Commonwealth Governments

2. The Meaning of Consultation

3. Commonwealth Representation in a World Organization

4. Consultation about India

5. The Commonwealth as a Bridge between Asia and the West

B. Independence of India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma

6. Independence within the Commonwealth

7. A Republic within the Commonwealth

8. Comments on the Prime Ministers’ Conference on India

C. The Colombo Plan

9. Commonwealth Meeting on Foreign Affairs at Colombo January 9-14, 1950

10. Commonwealth Consultative Committee on Economic Aid to South and South-East Asia

11. Canada and the Colombo Plan

Co-operative Economic Development of Pakistan

D. The Monarchy and the Commonwealth

13. Proclamation of Accession of Elizabeth II

14. Communique from Commonwealth Conference on the Queen’s Style and Titles, December 19, 1952

15. The Royal Style and Titles in the Commonwealth

16. Proclamation of the Queen’s Title, May 28, 1953

E. Removal of Constitutional Anomalies

17. Letters Patent constituting the office of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada

XI. The Foundations of Canadian Policy In World Affairs

An address by the Secretary of State for External Affairs, Mr. L. S. St. Laurent, inaugurating the Gray Foundation Lectureship at Toronto University, January 13, 1947

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