“Six mois à Hanoi”

Drawing on an unpublished memoir by Marcel Cadieux entitled “Six mois à Hanoi,” this article offers the first biographical study of a Canadian diplomat to serve on the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam. It argues that Cadieux's pioneering experience on that commission during its first months in 1954–5 shaped his pro-American views on the Vietnam War as under-secretary of state for external affairs between 1964 and 1970. It also uses Cadieux's tenure in Hanoi as a lens through which to explore larger issues of both long-standing and more recent interest to Canadian international historians, including the bureaucratic culture of the Department of External Affairs, Canadian diplomacy's relationship with the decolonizing countries of the Third World, and the role of race, culture, religion, and anti-communism in the making of Canadian foreign policy

Bureaucracy · Commission · Communism · Diplomacy · Foreign policy · Memoir · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vietnam War · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Public Administration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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