Words & Occasions / / Lester B. Pearson.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1970 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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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