The Making of a Peacemonger : : The Memoirs of George Ignatieff / / George Ignatieff.
Standing on the roof of Canada House following one of the worst wartime air raids on London and surveying the devastation around them, two men resolved to devote their lives to the cause of peace. One of them was Mike Pearson, soon to become minister of external affairs and eventually prime minister...
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Ignatieff, George, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Making of a Peacemonger : The Memoirs of George Ignatieff / George Ignatieff. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©1985 1 online resource (286 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- One. In the service of the tsars -- Two. Luck on our side -- Three. Down on the farm -- Four. The Canadianization of the Ignatieffs -- Five. Diplomatic apprenticeship -- Six. Junior planner -- Seven. At the UN with McNaughton -- Eight. Golden age of Canadian diplomacy -- Nine. Russia revisited -- Ten. Ambassador to Yugoslavia -- Eleven. In London with the Drews -- Twelve. Ottawa under Diefenbaker -- Thirteen. Ambassador to NATO -- Fourteen. The hot seat in New York -- Fifteen. The cool seat in Geneva -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Standing on the roof of Canada House following one of the worst wartime air raids on London and surveying the devastation around them, two men resolved to devote their lives to the cause of peace. One of them was Mike Pearson, soon to become minister of external affairs and eventually prime minister of Canada. The other was a junior foreign service official by the name of George Ignatieff. The London blitz was not Ignatieff's first exposure to the horrors of war. As the Russian-born son of a famous aristocratic family, he was barely five years old when the revolution and civil war put an end to his sheltered childhood. His father was arrested and jailed by the Bolsheviks, then miraculously released in time for the family to escape to England and eventually settle in Canada. For the last event, he has never ceased to be grateful. With warmth, charm and unfailing humour, Ignatieff takes the reader through a remarkable life. The early years – from the elegance of his childhood home to the comic struggles of émigré neophytes operating a dairy farm, from the pain of isolation at an exclusive Montreal boys' school and the challenges of railroad construction life in western Canada to the heady days as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford – developed in the young man the flexibility and adaptability required of a diplomat. His close-up observation of troops massed to parade before Hitler, his shock at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Magasaki, the nuclear arms race, and the Cuban missile crisis all reinforced his commitment to peace. Ignatieff served his adopted country as Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia and to the North Atlantic Council. He represented Canada on the United Nations Security Council and at the Geneva Disarmament Conference. He participated in tense negotiations over most of the world's hot spots of the 1950s and 60s: the Middle east, Suez, Korea, Czechoslovakia, Cyprus. He accompanied Pearson on his historic visit to the Soviet Union, and spent a memorable evening with Khrushchev and Bulganin. He discussed multiculturalism with Tito, the Suez crisis with U Thant, and disarmament with anyone who would listen. His colourful recollections offer a rare glimpse into the workings of international relations, of policy-making at the highest levels, and of people whose decisions affect the stability of the world. They are also the intensely personal account of an immigrant who rose to distinguished heights in service to his country and to humanity. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Diplomats Canada Biography. DISCOUNT-B. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442654105 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442654105 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442654105.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- One. In the service of the tsars -- Two. Luck on our side -- Three. Down on the farm -- Four. The Canadianization of the Ignatieffs -- Five. Diplomatic apprenticeship -- Six. Junior planner -- Seven. At the UN with McNaughton -- Eight. Golden age of Canadian diplomacy -- Nine. Russia revisited -- Ten. Ambassador to Yugoslavia -- Eleven. In London with the Drews -- Twelve. Ottawa under Diefenbaker -- Thirteen. Ambassador to NATO -- Fourteen. The hot seat in New York -- Fifteen. The cool seat in Geneva -- Index |
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