Volume 20 (1954)

Note: These Historical documents are reprinted in either English or French, depending on their language of origin.

Greg Donaghy, Editor • Ted Kelly, Assistant Editor

Introduction Location of Documents List of Abbreviations List of Persons Illustrations

Chapter I - Korean Conflict Chapter II- United Nations and Other International Organizations Chapter III - North Atlantic Treaty Organization Chapter IV - Commonwealth Relations Chapter V - Relations with the United States Chapter VI - Europe and the Middle East Chapter VII - Far East Chapter VIII - Latin America

Chapter I

KOREAN CONFLICT

1. Armistice Negotiations
2. Geneva Conference on Korea, April 26-June 15, 1954
3. Withdrawal of Canadian Forces
4. Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
5. Korean Relief

Chapter II

UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

1. United Nations

• a) Ninth Session of the General Assembly, New York, September 21-December 17, 1954
  
  • i) Instructions for the Canadian Delegation
    
  • ii) Cyprus
    
  • iii) Disarmament
    
  • iv) Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
    
  • v) International Finance Corporation
    
  • vi) Final Assessment
    
• b) International Relief Contributions
  

2. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: Ninth Session of the Contracting Parties
3. International Monetary Fund, Washington, August 11, 1954
4. Proposed International Tin Agreement

Chapter III

NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION

1. Annual Review and Mutual Aid Policy
2. Ministerial Meeting of the North Atlantic Council, Pairs, April 23, 1954
3. Soviet Proposals for European Security
4. European Defence Community and German Rearmament
5. Future Defence Planning
6. Ministerial Meeting of the North Atlantic Council, Paris, December 17-18, 1954

Chapter IV

COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS

1. Admission of New Members
2. Meetings of Finance Ministers
3. Colombo Plan

• a) Canadian Contribution
  
• b) Meeting of the Commonwealth Consultative Committee for South-East Asia, Ottawa, September 20-October 9, 1954
  
  • i) Membership of Japan
    
  • ii) Assessment
    
• c) Ceylon
  
• d) India
  
• e) Pakistan
  
• f) Nepal
  

4. United States Military Aid to Pakistan
5. Prime Minister's Tour

Chapter V

RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES

1. Defence and Security Issues

• a) United States Defence Policy: A "New Look"
  
• b) Distant Early Warning System, Mid-Canada Line and Continental Air Defence
  
• c) Strategic Consultations
  
• d) Radar Defence System: Pinetree Line
  
• e) United States Communications Facilities
  
• f) Temporary Radar Facilities
  
• g) Strategic Air Command Training Flights
  
• h) Experimental Sounding Station
  
• i) Loran Station, Baffin Island
  
• j) Security Control of Merchant Seaman on the Great Lakes
  

2. Arctic Sovereignty and Northern Development
3. Atomic Energy
4. Economic Issues

• a) Disposal of United States Agricultural Surpluses
  
• b) Joint Canada-United States Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs, Washington, March 16, 1954
  
• c) United States Restrictions on Imports
  
• d) St. Lawrence Seaway
  
• e) Natural Gas
  
• f) Trans-Atlantic Cable
  

5. Great Lakes Fisheries Convention
6. International Joint Commission

• a) Columbia River System
  
• b) Pollution of Boundary Waters
  
• c) Chicago Diversion
  

Chapter VI

EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST

1. Western Europe

• a) Organization for European Economic Cooperation: Trade Liberalization
  
  • i) Quantitative Restrictions on Dollar Imports
    
  • ii) Convertibility
    
• b) Commercial Agreements with Spain and Portugal
  

2. Eastern Europe

• a) Strategic Controls on Exports to the Soviet Bloc
  
• b) Soviet Union
  
  • i) General Relations
    
  • ii) Restrictions on Soviet Embassy Personnel in Ottawa
    
• c) Trade with Czechoslovakia
  
• d) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-International Service
  

3. Middle East

• a) Arab-Israeli Relations
  
• b) Israel: Export of Arms
  

4. Export of Military Equipment

Chapter VII

FAR EAST

1. Indochina

• a) Establishment of the International Commissions for Supervision and Control
  
• b) Operation of the International Commissions for Supervision and Control
  
• c) International Commission for Supervision and Control for Vietnam
  
• d) International Commission for Supervision and Control for Cambodia
  
• e) International Commission for Supervision and Control for Laos
  

2. Japan

• a) Trade
  
• b) Immigration
  

Chapter VIII

LATIN AMERICA

1. Organization of American States

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