 | Radical Mandarin: The Memoirs of Escott Reid Subjects: Reid Escott; Canada -- Foreign relations -- 1918-1945; Canada -- Foreign relations -- 1945–; Diplomats -- Canada -- Biography; In the golden age of Canadian diplomacy, during the government of Louis St Laurent and Lester Pearson, Escott Reid played a central role. In this memoir, he recalls some of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century and his own and Canada's role in them. Reid Escott : ESCOTT REID is the author of a number of books, among them Time of Fear and Hope: The Making of the North Atlantic treaty, 1947-49 ; Hungary and Suez ; Envoy to Nehru ; and On Duty: A Canadian at the Making of the United Nations, 1945-46 . In 1971, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. He lives on his farm in Ste Cecile de Masham, Quebec. |
