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Burns, E.L.M. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

257658

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1976-05-16

Item number (ISN):

257658

Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1978-0072

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1976-05-16

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of General E.L.M. Burns, author and former Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) (1954-1956), Commander of UNEF in Egypt (1956-1959), and Advisor to the Government on Disarmament (1960-1968), by author Peter Stursberg, about: General E.L.M. Burns; his background; his experiences during World Wars One and Two; his career in the Canadian Armed Forces; his memories of Lester B. Pearson; World War Two; the 1st Canadian Corps; General E.L.M. Burns; his removal as Commander of the 1st Canadian Corps; Harry McCreary; General E.L.M. Burns's appointment as Chief of Staff of UNTSO in 1954; the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in Jerusalem circa 1954-1956; Arab accusations of Canadian-Israeli bias in UNTSO; Selwyn Lloyd's visit to the Middle East in March 1956; creation of UNEF in 1956; the Suez crisis of October 1956; General E.L.M. Burns' appointment as first Commander of UNEF in Egypt 1956; Gamal Abdel Nasser's objections to accepting Canadian troops in the UNEF in November 1956; Dag Hammarskjold; the Israeli-Arab War; the role of UNEF in Egypt 1956-1967; the United Nations Committee on Disarmament; Howard Green; problems with disarmament and progress made; the Non-Proliferation Treaty Article 6; the Canadian position on disarmament; and Lester B. Pearson's stand on the Middle-East crisis. <2h 35mn>

Language:

English

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Recorded in General Burns' home in Manotick, Ontario for the second volume of Peter Stursberg's book on Lester B. Pearson.~3. Closed, except with permission of Peter Stursberg, until 31 December 1980.~4. There is no release form on file at Library and Archives Canada for this interview. However, the transcript indicates an understanding between interviewer and interviewee that tape recordings and transcripts will be opened for research as of the publication of the second volume of Peter Stursberg's book on Lester B. Pearson, entitled Lester Pearson and the American dilemma, published in 1980.~5. E.L.M. Burns died on 1985-09-13.
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MSS 22018

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