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Ignatieff, George - Interview

Item number (ISN):

390257

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1978-06-29

Item number (ISN):

390257

Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1978-0098

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1978-06-29

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of George Ignatieff, Vice-Chancellor and Provost of the University of Trinity College in Toronto, and former Canadian diplomat, by author Peter Stursberg; about: his education; his family background; his experiences during World War II; his career with the Department of External Affairs (1940-1971); his memories of Lester B. Pearson; Great Britain; the British government's appeasement policy circa1938; his father, Count Paul Ignatieff); the Russian Revolution of February 1917; contributing causes of the revolution; the Russian Civil War circa1918-1920; his Grandfather Ignatieff; the Russo-Chinese border dispute and settlement of 1858; Canada House in London, England; wartime activities; British internment and deportation of foreign aliens in 1940; Lester B. Pearson's wartime activities at Canada House; William Lyon. Mackenzie King's visit to England 1941; Pearson's views on world interdependence and Canada's role; the Post-Hostilities Planning Committee; the creation of the state of Israel; General A.G.L. McNaughton; accusations that Pearson hada pro-Zionist bias, with regard to the settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Russia's relations with Israel; Russian policy towards Israel; British-American relations over the Palestine question; Dean Rusk; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); its purpose; the Three Wise Men (a NATO committee consisting of Lester B. Pearson; Gaetano Martino and Halyard Lange, which was set up on 4 May 1956 because of the disarray of the alliance, as displayed by the Suez crisis); NATO Article II; John Foster Dulles; NATO; the recommendations of the Three Wise Men committee to improve consultation among members; France's request for the United States to use an atomic bomb on the Chinese mainland to relieve pressure on their troops at Dien Bien Phu in 1954; the Korean conflict circa1950-1953; the United Nations and its role in the Korean conflict; Lester B. Pearson's trip to the Soviet Union in October 1955; Canada-USSR relations; Nikita Khrushchev; Soviet Union opposition to a German-American military alliance (NATO), as causative factor in the Soviets' ongoing armaments program; the United Nations and the question in 1966 of Chinese representation at the UN; and Canadian initiative. <4h 1mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. George Ignatieff died at age 75 on August 10, 1989.~3. Recorded in Toronto for the second volume of Peter Stursberg's book on Lester B. Pearson.~4. Norman McLeod Paterson died at the age of 100 on 10 August 1983.~5. The sound recording of the interview(s) and/or transcript(s) made from the interview(s) conducted on 29 June 1978 are available for public access on completion or after 29 June 1978. All claims of copyright by the interviewer or interviewee are hereby waived to ensure the widest possible access for research and publication.
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GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

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Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : interviewee restrictions vary : see notes

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