Diefenbaker''s World: A Populist in Foreign Affairs
ISBN: 9781487575212
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Diefenbaker John G. 1895-1979; Canada -- Foreign relations -- 1945-;

Basil Robinson served Diefenbaker as External Affairs liaison officer for five years. He presents an informed, balanced, and clear-eyed assessment of the time and the man whose compelling personality shaped it.

Robinson H. Basil :

H. Basil Robinson served thirty years in the Department of External Affairs, including a five-year stint as its liaison officer in the Office of Prime Minister Diefenbaker. In 1962 he was posted to Washington as minister at the Canadian Embassy. Mr. Robinson retired in 1977 as Undersecretary of State for External Affairs.


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