Escott Reid

Download or read book Escott Reid written by Stéphane Roussel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Granatstein introduces Reid and the forces that shaped his progressive idealism in the 1920s and 1930s. Hector Mackenzie assesses Reid's contribution to the creation of the United Nations in the mid-1940s, while David Haglund and Stephane Roussel examine Reid's crucial role in the negotiations to establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Greg Donaghy, Bruce Muirhead, and Alyson King write, respectively, about Reid as high commissioner to India, as an important influence on World Bank policy in the early 1960s, and, finally, as founding principal of York University's Glendon College.