Book Review: Canada: In Defence of Canada
| Published date | 01 September 1966 |
| Author | Michael Howard |
| Date | 01 September 1966 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070206602100323 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
386
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
own
breast
by
suggesting
we
should
kili
all the
seals
now while
the
market
is
high!
He's
realistic,
too,
in
pointing
out
total
mineral
produc
tion
in
the
Yukon
and
Northwest Territories
was
only
1.1
per
cent
of
total
Canadian
(1962)
production.
Oil
discoveries,
however,
may
make
the
Middle
Eastern
oil fields
look
puny-but
we'd
better
get
at
it
soon
before
nuclear
power
in
the
1980's
makes
the
stuff
obsolete.
Marsden,
too,
tells
us
of
the Hovercraft
which
may
revolutionize
Arctic
trans-
port,
and
of
nuclear
submanne-tugs
to
carry
oil
or other
freight
in
"dumb"
submarine
barges
towed behind
under
the
Arctic
ice.
Terence
Armstrong,
knowing more about Arctic
Russia
than
any
other
non-Russian,
characteristically
invites
us
to
be
doubtful
of
what
he
says!
He
has
praise
for
Russia's
northern
development,
says
it
is
making
the
most
of
regional
authority
but
not
to
the
point
of
in-
efficiency,
minmizes talk
of
oppression
or neglect,
and
declares their
great
work
in
education
is
the
lesson
Canada might
best
exannne.
Margaret
Lantis
disarmingly
observes
that
we
do
not have
"to undo
or
modify
some
other
nation's
political
administration,
official
language
and system
of
education.
So-we're
on
our
own,
to
fail
or
succeed.
Diamond
Jenness writes
movingly
of
the
Eskimo's unique
age-old
self
reliance
in
accepting
"the
venomous
barbs
of
fate"-and
implies
that
North
American
ewviUzation
may
be
the
unkindest
cut
of
all.
Gordon
Smith
writes
fascinatingly
of how
Canada
might
have
lost
the
Arctic
by
default.
We
will
best
retain
sovereignty over
its
water,
ice
and land
now
if
we
yield
reasonable
rights
of
water
passage
to
other
countries
and
take
a
lead
in
respecting and
improving
international
law
in
these
matters.
Messrs.
F
B.
Fingland,
Neil
Field,
R.
J.
Sutherland
and
George
Rogers
add
useful
studies
of
history
defence and
economics
to
our
look
at
the
Arctic
Frontier.
The
maturity
of
the
book
is
that
none
of
the
contributors
boasts
of
certainties,
none
is
satisfied
with
the
record. Graham
Rowley's
parting
thought
is
perhaps
one
answer-
that
Canada
with
a
small
population
has
a
large
Arctic
area
to
explore
and
exploit,
and
it
is
therefore
in
our
own
interest
to encourage
international
scientific
and
political
co-operation. "The
terms east
and
west
lose
their
normal
signifi-
cance
at
the
North
Pole.
It
remains
for
some
country
to
take
the
initiative
in
putting
forward
definite
proposals,
and
there
is
no
country
better
placed
to
play
this
role
than
Canada.
Ottawa
I.
NORMAN
SMITH
IN
DEFENCE
OF
CANADA.
Appeasement
and
Rearmament.
Volume
II.
By
James
Eayrs.
1965.
(Toronto:
University
of
Toronto
Press.
xiv
261pp.
$6.95)
This,
the
second volume
of
Professor
Eayrs's
study
of
the
develop-
ment
of
Canada's
defence policy
since
1918,
covers
the
years
1935
to
1940.
It
begins
with the
advent
to
power
of
Mr.
Mackenzie
King's
administration,
whose
first
act
in
foreign
affairs was
to
repudiate
the
support
given
by
the
Canadian
representative
in
Geneva
to the
policy
of
sanctions
against
Italy.
It
ends
with
Mr.
King's enrolment
at
Ogdens-
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