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| Title: | Pearson's Prize
: Canada & the Suez Crisis |
| Author: | John Melady |
| ISBN: | 1550026119 : 9781550026115 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 150x230mm |
| Pages: | 207 |
| Weight: | .512 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press - August 2006 |
| List Price: | 15 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Canada: Suez canal: World history: postwar; from c1945-: International relations |
In the autumn of 1956, the world was on the brink of war. Egyptian President Gamel Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal, and Britain, France, and Israel attacked him. Russia supported Nasser, and Soviet Premier Khrushchev threatened nuclear holocaust if the United States became militarily involved. Soon, the matter became a major problem for the United Nations. Fortunately, because of the efforts of Lester Pearson, then Canada's Minister of External Affairs, the crisis was defused. Pearson proposed a UN peacekeeping force be sent to Egypt to separate the warring factions there and keep the peace. Because his idea was adopted, Pearson helped save the world from war. For his outstanding statesmanship, Pearson won the Nobel Prize for Peace, the only Canadian ever to do so. This book, written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the event, is about the Suez and about Pearson's work during a tension-filled time in the twentieth century.
