Escott Reid

by Donaghy, Greg; Roussel, Stephane

• ISBN13: 9780773527133
• ISBN10: 0773527133
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

Jack Granatstein introduces Reid and the forces that shaped his progressive idealism in the 1920s and 1930s. Hector Mackenzie assesses Reid's contribution to the creation of the United Nations in the mid-1940s, while David Haglund and Stéphane Roussel examine Reid's crucial role in the negotiations to establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Greg Donaghy, Bruce Muirhead, and Alyson King write, respectively, about Reid as high commissioner to India, as an important influence on World Bank policy in the early 1960s, and, finally, as founding principal of York University's Glendon College.

Table of Contents

Foreword : Canada looks ahead : Escott Reid and Lester B. Pearson
Introduction : a liberal idealist in a hard-power world	p. 3
Becoming difficult : Escott Reid's early years	p. 11
"Writing marginal notes on the pages of history"? : Escott Reid and the founding of the United Nations, 1945-46	p. 23
Escott Reid, the North Atlantic Treaty, and Canadian strategic culture	p. 44
"The most important place in the world" : Escott Reid in India, 1952-57	p. 67
The radical banker : Escott Reid, the World Bank, and aid to India, 1962-65	p. 85
The Glendon College experiment	p. 101
Conclusion	p. 123
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