Roy Maclaren: 3 books
Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators
Canada's Imperial and Foreign Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
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...
Commissions High
Canada in London, 1870-1971
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
MacLaren, a former diplomat posted to London, offers an insider's perspective on immigration, Canada's trade and finance, the coronation of George VI, the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and NATO. For many years the position of high commissioner was so important that the incumbent had to be a minister...
The Fundamental Things Apply
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
During the parliamentary years, from his first election in 1979 to his appointment to London in 1996, MacLaren draws on his diary to offer impressions - at times devastating, at others sympathetic - of those he encountered in his several ministerial capacities and global travels. Earlier, life in...