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Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators: Canada's Imperial and Foreign Policies

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Until the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Mackenzie King prided himself on never publicly saying anything derogatory about Hitler or Mussolini, unequivocally supporting the appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and regarding Hitler as a benign fellow mystic. In Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators Roy MacLaren leads readers through the political labyrinth that led to Canada's involvement in the Second World War and its awakening as a forceful nation on the world stage. Prime Minister King's fascination with foreign affairs extended from helping President Theodore Roosevelt exclude “little yellow men” from North America in 1908 to his conviction that appeasement of Hitler and Mussolini should be the cornerstone of Canada's foreign and imperial policies in the 1930s. If war could be avoided, King thought, national unity could be preserved. MacLaren draws extensively from King's diaries and letters and contemporary sources from Britain, the United States, and Canada to describe how King strove to reconcile French Canadian isolationism with English Canadians' commitment to the British Commonwealth. King, MacLaren explains, was convinced by the controversies of the First World War that another such conflagration would be disruptive to Canada. When King finally had to recognize that the Liberals' electoral fortunes depended on English Canada having greater voting power than French Canada, he did not reflect on whether a higher morality and intellectual integrity should transcend his anxieties about national unity. A focused view of an important period in Canadian history, replete with insightful stories, vignettes, and anecdotes, Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators shows Canada flexing its foreign policy under King's cautious eye and ultimately ineffective guiding hand.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix Chronology xi Illustrations follow page 84 1 The Beginnings of the Affair 3 2 Asian Apprenticeship 12 3 Leadership Manoeuvres 31 4 Chanak and All That 41 5 Canada at the League of Nations 56 6 The Advent of the Dictators: Mussolini 62 7 The Advent of the Dictators: Hitler 68 8 King and Abyssinia: The Muddle 82 9 King and Abyssinia: The Domestic Scene 102 10 King and Abyssinia: The End 123 11 Appeasement 153 12 A Berliner in Berlin 171 13 Appalling Mischief 186 14 The End of the Affair 231 15 A Good Bit of Wool 252 Notes 263 Bibliography 289 Index 307

About the Author :
Roy MacLaren has been a diplomat, businessman, minister in three federal cabinets, and Canada's high commissioner to the United Kingdom.

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"MacKenzie King in the Age of the Dictators is particularly valuable for its examination of pro-fascist currents in Canada ... MacLaren tracks in meticulous detail King's approach to Canada's foreign policy, from labour minister in Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal government to his interwar stretch as prime minister." – Canada's History "This is a fair, clear-eyed account that does not set out to condemn King. Instead it dispassionately chronicles the common denominator in his reprehensible approach to immigration, his "muddle" over the invasion of Ethiopia, and his long infatuation with dictators: Canadian isolationism. On the whole, Mackenzie King in the Age of Dictators is refreshingly revisionist ... Canadians should read this book--and buy copies for friends and family." – Literary Review of Canada "A tour-de-force indictment of Mackenzie King and, by implication, the political system that made him the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history. For those concerned about the contemporary rise of fascism and neo-Nazism around the world, Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators is ominous and terrifying." – The Globe and Mail


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780228005902
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 521 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0228005906
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Canada's Imperial and Foreign Policies
  • Width: 152 mm


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