Collection search - Diefenbaker, John G. - Interview

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Diefenbaker, John G. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

413390

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1973-12-20/1973-12-22

Item number (ISN):

413390

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1973-0123

Media:

Sound

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1973-12-20/1973-12-22

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of John G. Diefenbaker, Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Prince Albert and former Prime Minister of Canada, by reporter Peter Stursberg, with occasional comments by Olive Diefenbaker, about: his world tour in 1958; Olive Diefenbaker; Charles de Gaulle; Pope John XXIII; Monsignor W.A. Carew ; Dr. Manoutchehr Eghbal; Mohammed Ayub Khan; Gamal Abdel Masser; Jawaharlal Nehru; Dr. Hastings K. Banda; Sir John Kotelawala; Sir Oliver Goonetilleke; S.W. Bandaransike; Sirima Bandaranaike; Tuanku Abdul Rahman; Lee Kuan Yew; Adrian Menderes; Robert G. Menzies; W.M. Hughes; S.G. Holland; [Manzengarb]; H.F. Verwoerd; E.H. Louw; H.S. Suhrawardy; Winston S. Churchill; Randolph Churchill; Clement Atlee; Harold Macmillan; Queen Elizabeth II; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John Foster Dulles; Senator Homer Capehart; Richard M. Nixon; John F. Kennedy; Joseph Kennedy; Walton Butterworth; Lauris Norstad; Douglas Harkness; Gordon Churchill; E. Davie Fulton; Mel Jack; George Nowlan; George Hees; Pierre Sévigny; Léon Balcer; Mrs. Geneviève Balcer; William Brunt; Helen Brunt; David Walker; Dalton Camp; Eddie Goodman; Duff Roblin; Marcel Faribault; John Robarts; Leslie Frost; Sir Robert Borden; Sir Arthur Meighen; Robert Thompson; T.C. Douglas; Lester B. Pearson; Pierre Elliott Trudeau; Jack Pickersgill; Walter Gordon; Wishart Spence; Gerda Munsinger; John C. Doyle; Lucien Rivard; Charles Lynch; Patrick Nicholson; Iran; Pakistan; India; Ceylon; Malaya; Singapore; Australia; New Zealand; Hawaii; Japan; international aid; the Colombo Plan; international aid; the world food bank; international relations; the Commonwealth; relations between Canada andGreat Britain; Canada - U.S. relations; the Organization of American States; the European Economic Community; racial discrimination; communism; democracy; Parliament; Senate reform; the House of Commons; the Progressive Conservative government’s support in Quebec from 1958 to 1962; the Progressive Conservative government and its Cabinet from 1958 to 1962; the 1962 federal election; finance; the devaluation of the Canadian dollar in 1962; defence; NORAD; the Cuban missile crisis in 1962; the debate over nuclear arms in 1962 and 1963; the Progressive Conservative government’s leadership crisis in 1962 and 1963; the 1963 federal election; the Liberal government of 1963 to 1965; the 1965 federal election; the 1967 Progressive Conservative Party leadership convention; and national unity. This interview was recorded by the Public Archives of Canada at the Coral Reef Club in Barbados, on December 20, 21 and 22, 1973. <7h>

Language:

English

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1. LAC did not receive a release form.~2. The tapes and transcripts are open for consultation.~3. Reproduction of the sound recordings and the transcripts require the written permission of the estate of John G. Diefenbaker.~4. John Diefenbaker died on 16 August 1979.~5. There is a 53-page transcript for the portion of the interview conducted on December 20 and 21, 1973 and a 32-page transcript for the portion conducted on December 22, 1973. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.
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GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : with written permission of Diefenbaker Estate

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