Roy MacLaren - 30 Jun

MACKENZIE KING

IN THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS

Roy MacLaren

MACKENZIE KING

IN THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS

Canadas Imperial and Foreign Policies

McGill-Queens University Press

Montreal & Kingston | London | Chicago

McGill-Queens University Press 2019

ISBN 978-0-7735-5714-7 (cloth)

ISBN 978-0-7735-5811-3 (ePDF)

ISBN 978-0-7735-5812-0 (ePUB)

Legal deposit second quarter 2019

Bibliothque nationale du Qubec

Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free
(100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. Lan dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de lart dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Mackenzie King in the age of the dictators : Canadas imperial and foreign policies / Roy MacLaren.

Names: MacLaren, Roy, author.

Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2019004800X | Canadiana (ebook) 20190048158 | ISBN 9780773557147 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780773558113 (ePDF) | ISBN 9780773558120 (ePUB)

Subjects: LCSH: King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950. | LCSH: DictatorsHistory20th century. | LCSH: CanadaForeign relations1914-1945.

Classification: LCC FC580 .M33 2019 | DDC 971.063/2dc23

In memory of my father, Wilbur Glen MacLaren, an eighteen-year-old gunner in a Prince Edward Island battery, who survived severe wounds at Passchendaele in October 1917, thanks in large part to the care of German prisoners of war who had been pressed into service as Canadian stretcher-bearers.

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Acknowledgments

I thank first Henry Newton Rowell Jackman for his intellectual and practical support for this book. The idea arose in part from our frequent conversations about Canadian public policy during the interwar years. Hal Jackman, liberal in his many benefactions, is untiring in his commitment to helping others realize their full potential. A great Canadian, as was his grandfather before him.

Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, granddaughter of Walter Riddell, was helpful in discussing her grandfathers role in recognizing the imperative need, before and after the Second World War, to construct and realize the potential of collective security.

Ellice Evans of Mount Allison University showed exemplary dexterity as well as both patience and comprehension in readying the manuscript for review and publication.

Amanda Wagner, of the splendid Robarts Library in the University of Toronto, demonstrated an inventive flexibility in applying the sometimes elusive disciplines of technology to the disciplines of writing history and did it with unfailing humour and wit.

Courtney Lundigran of Trinity College Library in the University of Toronto displayed a rare understanding of how to identify sources electronically, a skill that has somehow eluded me.

Neville Thompson of the University of Western Ontario, an expert in the history of public policy in the British Commonwealth in the interwar years, was always constructive and stimulating in his suggestions and analyses.

No author could want a better editor than Mark Abley of McGill-Queens University Press. Remarkably well informed and imaginative at the same time, he, a notable author himself, was wonderfully supportive.

My wife, Susan Eleanor MacLaren, was unfailingly constructive in her many contributions to the final draft of this manuscript.

To them all I am most grateful.

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