1. Lester Pearson, hand-written note attached to Riddell to Pearson, 31 December 1946, in University of Toronto Archives, R. G. Riddell Papers: Accession B2006–0021, Box 1004, File 12.
2. John Kirton,Canadian Foreign Policy in a Changing World(Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007), III; Kim Richard Nossal,The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 3rded. (Scarborough: Prentice Hall [1985] 1997), 156; Robert Bothwell,The Big Chill: Canada and the Cold War(Toronto: Irwin, 1998), 21. In theDictionary of Canadian Biography, it is also cautiously called Louis St. Laurent's “most notable speech.” See “St. Laurent, Louis-Stephen,”Dictionary of Canadian Biography[online],http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=42124(23 November 2006). For the statement's relative lack of importance at the long-term policy level, see David Malone, “Foreign Policy Reviews Reconsidered,”International Journal56, no. 4 (Autumn 2001): 555–78; William Hogg, “Plus ça change: Continuity, Change, and Culture in Foreign Policy White Papers,”International Journal59, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 521–36; and Adam Chapnick, “Peace, Order and Good Government: The ‘Conservative’ Tradition in Canadian Foreign Policy,”International Journal60, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 635–50.
3. “Public Skeptical of Lasting Peace,” 27 November 1946; “Canadians Think Food Effort Is All That Can Be Expected,” 13 November 1946, both in Canadian Institute of Public Opinion,Public Opinion News Service Release, Gallup Polls of Canada.
4. “Individual Has No Voice in Keeping Peace,” 11 December 1946, in ibid.
5. Martin, 2 April 1946, in House of Commons,Debates, quoted in Paul Martin,A Very Public Life, vol. 1,Far from Home(Ottawa: Deneau Publishers, 1983), 448.