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Subjects (Group/Subheading): Canada-Vietnam to 1975/Early policy on Vietnam
One liner: We must not accept colonialism as an alternative to communism
Keywords: Event: Geneva Conference 1954
Date Published: 1954-05-28
Acquired: 2016-10-17
Source (Type/Source/Notes):
Government
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GAC Digital Library
[Canadian] /
Report to Parliament, 14 pages
Collection: 572 Global Affairs Canada Digital Library
Author: Pearson, L. B. (Lib)
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Notes: Pearson lays out his definition of the problem and outlines a solution, pages 10-12, and Canada's role pages 13-14. "the urge for national freedom and for social and economic reform, and not devotion to communism as such, is the mainspring of the greatest revolution of our time, the emergence or the masses of Asia from colonial control, feudal restrictions and western pressures … [but] communist imperialism, directed from Moscow or from Peking or both, has been too successful in exploiting, and in some cases in capturing these forces" Among his solutions: "must be divorced from anything that could be called colonialism and not designed to maintain regimes, colonial or national, that have little or no popular support". Canada, as a pacific nation, has an interest in what happens in the area. Canada will make it's peacekeeping contributions through the UN. Recourse to the UN must be initiated by the nations in the area. |