This book brings together and interprets the information relating to Canada's contacts with Asiatic countries since the beginning of the Second World War. Lucidly written and freshly presented, it will be of great interest to everyone concerned with international affairs.

As Canada's policies in the Far East and Southeast Asia are the result of Canadian policies in general, Dr. Angus discusses the general policies first and then their particular application. He deals with the nature of Canadian nationalism; the war years and post-war adjustment; Canadian Far Eastern policy and the United Nations; the peace settlement with Japan and security; trade policy and access to resources; economic assistance and the forms it takes; cultural intercourse, human rights, and immigration; and Canadian opinion about the Far East.

Dr. Angus' book is published by the University of Toronto Press for the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.

H.F. Angus was born at Victoria, B.C., in 1891, and was a graduate of McGill University and of Balliol College, Oxford. After serving in the armed forces from 1914 to 1919, he joined the staff of the University of British Columbia, where he became Head of the Department of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology, and Dean of Graduate Studies. He is the author of The Problem of Peaceful Change in the Pacific Area, 1937; and editor and co-author of Canada and Her Great Neighbour, 1938, and British Columbia and the United States, 1942.

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