Words & Occasions / / Lester B. Pearson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Pearson, Lester B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1970
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

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. His humour and modesty, his honesty and directness, infuse the work as they have in his public life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- PART 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 -- PART II. 1949-1957 -- 12. To the Ontario Municipal Association -- 13. From the Honourable Member for 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 in Hungary -- PART III. 1957-1963 -- 27. To the National Liberal Convention -- 28. St Andrew's Day Address -- 29. Politics, Opposition, and the Plight of Democracy -- 30. 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 -- PART IV. 1963-1968 -- 35. A l'Association des hebdomadaires de langue frarnçaise du Canada -- 36. Before the Eighteenth Session of the United Nations -- 37. 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 -- Captions to the Illustrations