Escott Reid

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

Life

Escott Meredith Reid's parents were Morna Meredith and Alfred John Reid (1861; † 1957). His grandfather Edmund Allen Meredith was, like himself later, State Secretary in the State Department. Meredith Reid received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 1927 . As a Rhodes Scholar he was in 1929 Bachelor of Arts, 1935 at Christ Church in Oxford Master of Arts.

In 1930 the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored his studies on Canadian party and electoral systems in general, and that in Saskatchewan in particular.

From 1932 to 1938 he held a full position at Harvard University as secretary of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs . He was involved in the League for Social Reconstruction, a club that had been founded in Montreal and Toronto in the winter of 1931-1932. He joined the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation , a social democratic party that was formed in 1932-1933. He advocated a policy of isolationism in the face of the looming Second World War that was not widely used 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), as the Canadian State Department called itself, and was employed on missions in Washington, DC , London , San Francisco and Ottawa . In 1941 Reid accompanied the Minister of Commerce and Industry James Angus MacKinnon on a tour of Latin America, on which trade agreements were concluded with several governments. In 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 San Francisco Conference . From 1946 to 1949 Reid headed Lester Pearson's office and was instrumental in the design of NATO . In 1947 he became Assistant Under-Secretary at the State Department. From 1948 to 1952 Reid was deputy state secretary in the Foreign Ministry.

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

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

Private

In Oxford, Reid met and married Ruth Herriot of 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 much of their retirement on their farm in Wakefield, Québec .

Awards

In 1971 Reid became 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 founding 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, and the autobiography Radical Mandarin , How He Is self designated.

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

predecessor	Office	successor
Warwick Fielding Chipman	Canadian high commissioner to New Delhi (Canadian high commissioner in India) November 21, 1952 to May 4, 1957	Chester Alvin Ronning (* 1894 in China)
	Deputy UN High Commissioner for Refugees 1956
Charles Stewart Almon Ritchie	Canadian envoy in Bonn November 22, 1957 to 1962	John Kennett Starnes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Photograph from 1947 ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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3. ↑ Timothy Escott Reid: http://web.archive.org/web/20110328083502/http://www.physical.utoronto.ca/alumni/halloffame_bio.php?id=71
4. ↑ Stéphane Roussel, Greg Donaghy, Escott Reid: diplomat and scholar
5. ↑ INDE: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Photography: Escott Reid as Canadian High Commissioner to India, between Zhou Enlai and Indira Gandhi 
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