Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson with Senator Warren Austin (left), Representative of the United States to the United Nations.

Minister of Defence of France Jules Moch is greeted on his arrival in Ottawa on November 7, 1950 by Minister of Defence Brooke Claxton and the Chiefs of Staff. L to r: Lt. Gen. Charles Foulkes, Air Marshall W.A. Curtis, Moch, Claxton, Hubert Guerin, Ambassador of France to Canada and Vice Admiral H.T. Grant.

A gun crew of H.M.C.S Cayuga confronts Korean refugees in July 1950.

Personnel of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry board the U.S.N.S. Joe P. Martinez en route to Korea, November 25, 1950.

Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson in a meeting with Misister of Defence Brooke Claxton (right), September 1, 1950.

Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson discusses strategy with Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs Arnold Heeney (centre) and G.A. Riddel (right), Permanent Representative to United Nations, at the Fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 19, 1950.

In the delegates' lounge before a meeting of the Tenth Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council are, l to r: Dr. George Davidson, Deputy Minister of Welfare and Alternate Representative; Raymond Eudes, M.P., Representative of Chile to the U.N. and President of the Tenth Session of the Council; S.D. Pierce, Associate Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce, Alternate Representative; and John Holmes, Acting Permanent Delegate to U.N. Lake Success, New York, February 8, 1950.

Major-General Howard Kennedy, Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Lake Success, New York, March 7, 1950.

R.C.A.F personnel prepare to defend North America from Goose Bay, Labrador in early 1950.

The Chairman of the Canadian Section of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, General A.G.L. McNaughton (second from the right), greets members of the American section as they arrive in Goose Bay, Labrador for a board meeting in June 1950.

Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson addresses the final session of the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers' Conference, 14 January 1950

Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson waves farewell as his "North Star" prepares to leave R.C.A.F. Station Rockcliffe for the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers' Conference, 2 January 1950