Book Review: Canada in World Affairs
| Author | J. B. Brebner |
| Published date | 01 September 1956 |
| Date | 01 September 1956 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070205601100309 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK REVIEWS
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one,
including
our
allies,
offers
comfort
neither
to
chauvinist
nor
sensationmonger,
and
if
one
politician
attacks
another with
anything
taken
from
the
book,
there
will
be
ammunition
in
it
for
both.
The
captured
German
photographs
from
Dieppe
are
among
the
most
interesting
in
a
set
of
photographic
illustrations
which
are
not
always
particularly
good.
The
excellence
of
the
maps
by
Captain
C. C.
J.
Bond,
however,
will
come
up
to
the
expectations
of
those
who
know
the
work
of
that
skilled
cartographer.
The
Ministers
responsible
for
the
prosecution
of
this
work,
Mr.
Claxton and
his
successor,
Mr.
Campney,
are
to
be
congratu-
lated
on
discharging
their
debt
to
history
and
on
the
calibre
of
their
historian.
But
Mr.
Campney
should
tell
the
Queen's
Printer
that
his
books
are
much too
heavy.
Queen's
University,
May,
1956
ERIc
HARRISON
CANADA
IN
WORLD
AFFAIRS-Vol.
VII:
September,
1951
to
October,
1953.
By
B.
S.
Keirstead.
1956.
(Toronto:
C.I.I.A.,
Oxford.
xi,
268pp.
$3.50, $2.75
to
C.I.I.A.
members)
Ideally
the
series
of
which
this
volume
is
an
instalment
might
be
the
standard
work
of
reference
for students
and
writers,
especially
outside
Canada,
but
it
has
been
robbed
of
its
full
effectiveness
by
delays and
by
the
inaccessibility
of
the
pivot
on
which
the
series
was
swung
by
the
Canadian
Institute
of
Inter-
national
Affairs
in
1938-Canada
Looks
Abroad,
by
R.
A.
MacKay
and
E.
B.
Rogers.
It
is
over
five
years
since
Volume
IV
appeared
and
Volumes
V
and
VI,
covering
1946-1951
are
still
lacking.
A
commentator
on
Canadian
international
behaviour
who
is
located
in
London
or
New
York,
for
instance,
must
be
somewhat
at
sea because
of
the
gaps and
tardiness,
and because
he
cannot
quickly
learn
about
the
roots
in
Canadian
domestic
circumstances
of
the
external
ambitions
which
Canada
-pursues
among
relatively
oblivious
nations.
In
the
circumstances,
Professor
Keirstead
has resorted
to
bold,
formalized
devices
which
succeed
well
in
making
Canadian
policies
during
his
period
intelligible.
His
first
chapter
discusses
by
definition
his
book's
scope
and
method
and
proceeds
to
the
external situations
which
constituted
"The
Challenge"
to
positive
Canadian
foreign
policy
(for
it
has
been
chiefly
positive
since
1947).
He
then
precedes
the
attempts
in
response
by a
swift
and
skilful
discussion of
the
internal
determinants
of
Canadian
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