Escott Reid

Escott Graves Meredith Reid CC ( born January 21, 1905 in Campbellford, Ontario, † September 28, 1999 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian ambassador.

Life

The parents of Escott Reid were Morna Meredith Meredith and Alfred John Reid (1861, † 1957). His grandfather Edmund Allen Meredith was, as he himself later, Secretary of State at the Foreign Ministry. Meredith Reid 1927 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. As a Rhodes Scholar in 1929 his Bachelor of Arts was founded in 1935 at Christ Church, Oxford Master of Arts.

1930 promoted the Rockefeller Foundation 's studies on the Canadian political parties and electoral systems in general and in Saskatchewan in particular.

From 1932 to 1938, he had a full time position as secretary of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs at Harvard University. He became involved in the League for Social Reconstruction, a club that had been founded in Montreal and Toronto in the winter 1931-1932. He joined the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, a Social Democratic Party in 1932, was formed in 1933. He advocated a policy of isolationism, the face of the impending Second World War, which was not common in the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. From 1937 to 1938 Reid was an Associate Professor of Administrative Law and Political Science at Dalhousie University.

In 1939, he joined the Foreign Service of the Secretary of State for External Affairs ( SSEA ) is designated as the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was employed by the missions in Washington DC, London, San Francisco and Ottawa. 1941 Reid accompanied the Minister of Commerce and Trade James Angus MacKinnon on a tour of Latin America, the trade agreements with several governments have been completed. The Executive Committee, United Nations Preparatory Commission Reid was involved in the creation of the United Nations and in 1945 a member of the Canadian delegation to the Conference of San Francisco. From 1946 to 1949 Reid headed the Office of Lester Pearson, and was instrumental in the conception of NATO. In 1947, he was Assistant Under- Secretary at the Foreign Ministry. From 1948 to 1952 Reid was deputy secretary of state.

From 1952 to 1957 he was High Commissioner of Canada to India. As such, he negotiated with Homi Jehangir Bhabha the Colombo Plan.

In 1956, he was Deputy UN High Commissioner for Refugees for the refugees in the Hungarian uprising. From 1958 to 1962 he was ambassador to Germany. From 1962 to 1965 he was director of the departments Southeast Asia and Middle East Department in the World Bank. From 1965 to 1969 he headed the campus Glendon College of York University.

Private

At Oxford she met and married Reid, Ruth Herriot from Winnipeg. Their children were Patrick Murray, Moma Meredith and Timothy Escott Heriott Reid ( born February 21, 1936 in Toronto ), a Canadian management consultant. Reid and his wife spent a large part of their retirement on their farm in Wakefield (Quebec ).

Awards

1971 Reid was a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 1993 he received the Pearson Peace Medal for his work as a civil servant.

Publications

From 1973 to 1989, Reid published seven books. These included works on the World Bank, the establishment of the United Nations, the development of the NATO Treaty, the Hungarian uprising and the Suez Crisis of 1956, his years in India and his friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru as well as the autobiography Radical Mandarin, as he self- referred.

• Radical mandarin: the memoirs of Escott Reid, University of Toronto Press, 405 pp., 1989

Single notes

• Canadian Ambassador to Germany
• Ambassador to India
• Companion of the Order of Canada
• Canadian
• Born 1905
• Died in 1999
• Man