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Words & Occasions /

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 r...

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Autor principal: Pearson, Lester B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, [1970]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.