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Title

Personal policy making : Canada's role in the adoption of the Palestine partition resolution / Eliezer Tauber.

Author

Ṭaʼuber, Eliʻezer.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

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Description

xii, 170 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

• "Without the Canadian mediation between the two world blocs in 1947, the UN resolution to partition Palestine - 181(II) - might not have been adopted by the General Assembly. Canadians were among the main initiators of the partition plan and the establishment of a Jewish state, although involvement was not an official Canadian policy. The push was a private initiative of certain high-ranking foreign service officials who believed partition was the only practicable solution to the Palestine question.".
• "Based upon many original Canadian, British, American, UN, and Israeli documents, this study shows that the motivation of Lester Pearson - Canada's undersecretary of state for external affairs, and leader of the initiative - was not the desire to make Canada a middle power involved in international affairs, as some scholars of Canadian international affairs have previously argued.
• Instead, the impact of the Holocaust drove these officials to break ranks with their superiors to support the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Their actions, contradicting the express will of their own prime minister, would forever change the history of the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Contributions to the study of world history, 0885-9159 ; no. 96

Uniform Title

Contributions to the study of world history ; no. 96.

Subject

• Pearson, Lester B
• United Nations. General Assembly > History > 20th century
• Diplomats > Canada > History > 20th century
• Humanitarianism > History > Canada > 20th century
• Canada > Foreign relations > Palestine
• Palestine > Foreign relations > Canada
• Canada > Foreign relations > 1945-
• Palestine > History > Partition, 1947

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-163) and index.

Contents

1. The Special Assembly -- 2. UNSCOP -- 3. The Ad Hoc Committee -- 4. Subcommittee 1 -- 5. In the Working Group -- 6. Back to the General Assembly -- 7. Personal Policy Making -- 8. Lobbying Activities -- 9. Canada's Role in Jewish, Arab, and Canadian Eyes.

ISBN

0313321078 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001050131

OCLC

• ocm48053845
• SCSB-8414638

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries