Antony Anderson - The Diplomat: Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis

photo: Iden Ford

ANTONY ANDERSON has written and produced for numerous Canadian and international broadcasters, including CBC Radio, the Discovery Channel, History Television, and TVOntario. His independent documentaries for Global Television include Foreign Fields , a critical look at Canadas fading role on the world stage. His articles have appeared in the Dorchester Review , the National Post , the Ottawa Citizen , the Toronto Star , the Halifax Chronicle Herald , the Winnipeg Free Press , the Hamilton Spectator , and the Vancouver Province .

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From February 1970 to March 1971, Lester Pearson sat for a long series of interviews with the CBC which used them for his television memoirs, First Person Singular, and a documentary series on his time as Liberal leader facing John Diefenbaker, The Tenth Decade. I went back to the original interview transcripts because while Pearson wrote the first volume of his memoirs, he was only able, while dying from cancer, to prepare drafts of certain chapters, including the one on Suez, for the next two volumes. These interview transcripts contain many gems, and indeed his editors incorporated portions of them into the final volumes. The transcripts are held in the CBC fonds. See finding aid for accession 1985-0298.

Eedson Louis Millard Burns fonds

Walter Harris fonds

Arnold Danford Patrick Heeney fonds

William Lyon Mackenzie King fonds

Victor Mackie fonds

Peter Stursberg fonds

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Robert Bothwell, Ramsay Cook, John English, Robert Fulford, Jack Granatstein, Patricia (Pearson) Hannah, Lord Douglas Hurd, Pierre Hutton, James Ingram, Tom Kent, Keith Kyle, Sir Donald Logan, Sir Guy Millard, Geoff Murray, John B. de Payne, Geoffrey Pearson, Sir Peter Ramsbotham, Denis Stairs, Malcolm Templeton, Sir Brian Urquhart, Margaret K. Weiers, Michael Wilson.

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