Article: "Interests but no foreign policy": Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean, 1941-1966.

Canadians have long delighted in the notion of a diplomatic "golden age," whose Pearsonian qualities of selfless and progressive internationalism set them apart as a chosen, if perhaps smug, people. Even today, the notion retains its potency, encouraging pundits and politicians alike to hark back to a simpler age when, in the pithy words of journalist Lawrence Martin, there "was some idealism around this place. We didn't kneel at the altar of militarism." (2) While historians have generally acknowledged that there was obviously more Canadian foreign policy after 1945, they have been skeptical of the idealist notions associated with a transformative "golden age." Canada's ...

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