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Martin, Paul - Interview

Item number (ISN):

390432

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1977-10-24/1977-11-01

Item number (ISN):

390432

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1977-0179

Media:

Sound

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1977-10-24/1977-11-01

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of the Honourable Paul Martin, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and former Secretary of State for External Affairs, by author Peter Stursberg, about: Paul Martin's career in politics; Lester B. Pearson; the United Nations package deal; Henry Cabot Lodge; Canada-U.S. relations circa 1950-1968; John Foster Dulles; Louis St. Laurent; the Suez crisis; Anthony Eden; the idea to create the United Nations Emergency Force; Dag Hammarskjold;the Columbia River Treaty 1963-1964; the nuclear arms issue 1963-1964; Quebec nationalism; Jean Lesage; Quebec-France relations; Quebec versus Canadian representation at Francophone conferences; Quebec's special status; the Vietnam War; American intervention in Vietnam; Lester B. Pearson's position on Vietnam; [Walt?] Rostow; Canada-U.S. relations; Vietnam policy; Dean Rusk; the sale of Canadian military supplies for use in Vietnam; Blair Seaborn's mission to Vietnam; allegations that Seaborn acted as an American agent; Canada's efforts to obtain a cease-fire in Vietnam; Robert McNamara; the Pentagon Papers as unofficial documents; Chester Ronning's mission to North Vietnam; William P. Bundy; Lester B. Pearson's speech at Temple University criticizing the American bombing of Vietnam; Lyndon B. Johnson; the United Nations International Control and Supervisory Commission and its role in Vietnam; the North Atlantic Treaty Organzation (NATO); NATO Article 2 on economic cooperation; France's withdrawal from NATO in 1966; Canada-France relations 1964-1967; General Charles de Gaulle, his view of NATO as a violation of French sovereignty; General Charles de Gaulle's visit to Canada in 1967; Charles de Gaulle's support for French culture; Walter Gordon's speeches on NORAD and NATO in 1967; Lester B. Pearson's views on the Commonwealth; the Rhodesia crisis and the proposed Commonwealth peace force; Harold Wilson; disarmament; the United Nations; the Subcommittee of the Disarmament Committee 1953-1956; the Geneva Summit Meeting in 1954; General Tommy Burns; the United Nations Disarmament Committee in Geneva circa 1956-1965; Time magazine's Canadian tax exemptions; Walter Gordon; the Mercantile Bank ownership issue; and Selwyn Lloyd. <3h 45mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Recorded at McDonald House in London, England.~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.

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Vault ISN:

458912

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01226

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

677184

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01225

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : with written permission of interviewee

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