Seize the day : Lester B. Pearson and crisis diplomacy / by Geoffrey A.H. Pearson.

Includes bibliographies and index.

In this uniquely insightful and informed account of Lester B. Pearson's foreign policy in the year 1948-1957, his son Geoffrey Pearson places the "Golden Age" of Canadian diplomacy in perspective. Holding the necessary balance between nationalism and realism in a particularly unstable time emerges as Pearson's overriding achievement as Secretary of State for External Affairs. It was a time when Canadian influence was felt around the world, and it culminated with a Nobel Peace Prize for Pearson. The author examines his father's politics in the context of Cold War stand-off, relations with the United States, the pressures for collective security, and the threat of nuclear war. Research into cabinet documents, combined with more personal sources, provides an especially strong picture of the Pearson legacy and its future implications for Canadian foreign policy

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 The Minister and the Department in 1948: From King to St. Laurent -- CHAPTER 2 The Wider World in 1948 -- CHAPTER 3 Creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Alliance or Community? -- CHAPTER 4 The Colombo Plan, 1950: Helping the New Asia -- CHAPTER 5 The Shock of Korea, 1950 -- CHAPTER 6 The Ultimate Weapon: Canada, the United States, and the Atom Bomb -- CHAPTER 7 Indochina Surprise, 1954 -- CHAPTER 8 The China Puzzle: Don't Let Asia Split the West -- CHAPTER 9 Seize the Day: Suez, 1956

CHAPTER 10 A Pearsonian Consensus?NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W

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