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Pearson or Lie: The Politics of the Secretary-General's Selection, 1946*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

James Barros
James Barros
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University of Toronto
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1977 , pp. 65 - 92
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1977

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4 U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945 1, 1439.

5 For the pertinent memoranda see FO/371/45153 and FO/371/45154, PRO.

6 See the minute by Cockram of the Dominions Office, February 22, 1945, FO/371/50676, PRO.

7 Stettinius (San Francisco) to Pearson, June 23, 1945, San Francisco Conference 1945, Lester Pearson File, Edward R. Stettinius Papers, University of Virginia.

8 After his election as Deputy Secretary-General in 1936, the Irishman Sean Lester, was told by Anthony Eden that his election meant that he “would be the next SG.” See Barros, Betrayal from Within, 269.

9 Ibid., 1–14.

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12 Ibid., 1448–49. The question of a Secretary-General's re-employment by his own government after his retirement was undoubtedly raised by Acheson because of the stir that was created in 1933 following Drummond's resignation from the League. He was immediately re-appointed to the Foreign Office and posted as ambassador in Rome. Barros, Betrayal from Within, 2–3, footnote.

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