Book Review: Canada in World Affairs, Vol. VI: 1949–1950
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205901400308 |
| Date | 01 September 1959 |
| Author | George W. Brown |
| Published date | 01 September 1959 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
Book
Reviews
CANADA
IN
WORLD
AFFAIRS,
Vol.
VI:
1949-1950.
By
W.
E.
C.
Harrison.
(Toronto:
Oxford
University
Press.
vii,
374pp.
$4.00.)
This
book
was
to have
been
reviewed
by
the
late
Professor
Brebner.
Unfortunately,
the
assignment
was unfinished
at
his
death,
and
the
review
has
therefore
regrettably
been
delayed.
No
one
will
regret,
more
than
does
the
present
reviewer,
that
the
Journal
has
been
deprived
in
this
instance of
the
benefits
of
the
knowledge
and
judgement
for
which
Professor
Brebner
was
so well
known.
Every
biennium
since
World
War
II
has
had
its
tensions
and
alarms-none
more
so
than
the
years
1949-50.
From
the
defence
crisis in
Western
Europe
marked
by
the
Berlin
blockade,
through
the
summer
of
1949
with
the
explosion
of
Russia's
first
atom
bomb,
to
the
rearming
of
Western
Germany and
the
Korean
War,
traced here
to
the
cease-fire
negotiations
in
1951,
these
years
are
crowded
with
events
and
developments
which
make
them
a
kind
of
watershed
in
the
postwar
period.
Canada,
like
every
other
nation, had
to
make
her
own
adjust-
ments
to
the
irresistable
shifting
of
balances in
the
world
scene,
and
the
process
was
neither
simple
nor
easy.
There
were,
it
is
true,
familiar
landmarks
in
areas
of
interest
and
patterns
of
policy.
Canada's
primary
concerns
were
still
with
Britain
and
the
United
States,
with
the
paramount
and
endless
problem
of
British-American
co-operation,
with
the
United
Nations
as
an
instrument
of
internationalism,
and
with
the
strategic
signifi-
cance
of
the
North
Atlantic
and
Western
Europe.
But
there
were
new
and
startling
developments:
NATO,
the
unprece-
dented
if
welcome,
bridge
of
the
Atlantic;
the
changing
Common-
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