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Canada and the Cost of World War IIThe International Operations of Canada's Department of Finance, 1939-1947 |
How Canada helped Britain finance the war effort.
Canada's most famous contributions to the Allied victory in World War II include Dieppe, the campaign in Italy, the bombing missions over Germany, and D-Day. Much less known are Canada's financial contributions to the war effort. In this sequel to his groundbreaking Maturing in Hard Times, legendary public servant Robert B. Bryce offers a first-hand account of the wartime activities of the Department of Finance during his formative years as its deputy minister from 1939-47.
Bryce chronicles in splendid detail how the tiny and overburdened department in Ottawa worked behind the scenes to deal with the critical public policy challenges that accompanied World War II and postwar reconstruction. Canada's financial aid made it possible for Britain to wage an effective war and then deal with the destruction it wrought. Bryce details how Canada's Department of Finance can also be credited with overcoming some of Britain's most pressing balance-of-payments problems after the war.
Bryce chronicles in splendid detail how the tiny and overburdened department in Ottawa worked behind the scenes to deal with the critical public policy challenges that accompanied World War II and postwar reconstruction. Canada's financial aid made it possible for Britain to wage an effective war and then deal with the destruction it wrought. Bryce details how Canada's Department of Finance can also be credited with overcoming some of Britain's most pressing balance-of-payments problems after the war.
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Part of the Carleton Library Series (number 204 in series)
440 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773529380
May 2005
Formats: Cloth
Robert B. Bryce was deputy minister in the Department of Finance and chairman of the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration.
Matthew J. Bellamy is an instructor in economics and history at Carleton University and the author of Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990.
Matthew J. Bellamy is an instructor in economics and history at Carleton University and the author of Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990.
Foreword vii
Gordon Robertson
Preface xiii
Kevin G. Lynch
Introduction 1
1 The Unprepared Beginnings 11
2 The EAC and Trade Problems 30
3 The Air Training Plan Negotiations 41
4 Financing Britain 52
5 Scarce us Dollars and the Hyde Park Declaration 85
6 us Economic Arrangements and Dollars Galore 117
7 Mutual Aid to Allies 146
8 Financing Britain Further and Keynes’s Visits 189
9 Working up to Bretton Woods 225
10 International Institutions 254
11 The 1946 British Loan and Settlement 283
Afterword 323
J.L. Granatstein
Notes 333
Bibliography 377
Index 385
Gordon Robertson
Preface xiii
Kevin G. Lynch
Introduction 1
1 The Unprepared Beginnings 11
2 The EAC and Trade Problems 30
3 The Air Training Plan Negotiations 41
4 Financing Britain 52
5 Scarce us Dollars and the Hyde Park Declaration 85
6 us Economic Arrangements and Dollars Galore 117
7 Mutual Aid to Allies 146
8 Financing Britain Further and Keynes’s Visits 189
9 Working up to Bretton Woods 225
10 International Institutions 254
11 The 1946 British Loan and Settlement 283
Afterword 323
J.L. Granatstein
Notes 333
Bibliography 377
Index 385
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