Marcel Cadieux
 Marcel Cadieux    (diplomat) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | June 17, 1915 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | March 19, 1981 (Age 65) Pompano Beach, Florida, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Collège André Grasset, University of Montreal, McGill University, NATO Defence College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Catholic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canadian Cold Warrior diplomat and also "one of the most pro-American under-secretaries ever to hold the office." Bilderberg/1966 and Bilderberg/1969. Ambassador to the United States 1970-75.
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Marcel Cadieux was a Canadian civil servant and diplomat, where he was the "first and most prominent cold warrior in the Department of Foreign Affairs," and also "one of the most pro-American under-secretaries ever to hold the office.[1] He attended the 1966 and 1969 Bilderberg meetings.
Background
Cadieux was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at the Collège André Grasset, obtained a Master's degree in law from the Université de Montréal,[2] and studied constitutional law at McGill University in Montreal.
Career
Cadieux joined the Department of External Affairs in 1941[3], as one of the few French-speaking Canadians in the diplomatic service. In 1951 Cadieux was sent to the NATO Defence College (NATO) in Paris and then the Canadian Permanent Delegation to the North Atlantic Council. Three years later he was posted to Hanoi in Vietnam as a member of the tripartite International Control Commission supervising the Geneva peace agreements.
When Cadieux returned to headquarters in 1955 he was first named head of the United Nations Division, then assistant under-secretary and legal adviser, and finally under-secretary – and all in nine years.
His "conservative Quebec Roman Catholicism predisposed him to a visceral hatred of communism as an ideology and to a deep suspicion of the Soviet Union as its main purveyor." These views influenced his attitude to the Cold War in general and to such specific issues as East-West relations, western defence, nuclear weapons, the UN, international law, and the Vietnam War.
A staunch federalist, Cadieux believed that French Canadians could and should find a place Canada,[1] abandoning separatism.
Cadieux viewed the Diefenbaker government as ignorant and amateurish.[4] "Whereas Norman Robertson had on occasion seemed anti-American for his views on such issues as trade, Cuba, and nuclear weapons, in Cadieux the United States had one of the most pro-American under-secretaries ever to hold the office."[1]
From 1964 to 1970, he was Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs.[5][6] When undersecretary, he directed the Havana embassy staff to debrief regularly with the US State Department and the CIA on Cuban developments.[7]
Cadieux served on the negotiating committee to determine maritime boundaries with the United States.[8][2] He was Canada's first francophone Ambassador to the United States from 1970 to 1975,[9][10] and head of the Canadian Mission to the European Communities from 1975.
He was appointed to advise the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in 1978. He also wrote several books on Canadian diplomacy.[11]
A professor of international law at the University of Ottawa, he was the first Canadian to sit on the United Nations International Law Commission.
In 1969, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1966 | 25 March 1966 | 27 March 1966 | Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof | Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment. |
| Bilderberg/1969 | 9 May 1969 | 11 May 1969 | Denmark Hotel Marienlyst Elsinore | The 18th Bilderberg meeting, with 85 participants |
References
- ↑ a b c https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/100770/1/Kelly_Brendan_201606_PhD_thesis.pdf
- ↑ a b Janice Gross Stein. Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb. Signal; 2011. ISBN 978-0-7710-8139-2. p. 38–.
- ↑ J. F. Bosher. The Gaullist Attack on Canada, 1967-1997. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP; 2000. ISBN 978-0-7735-2025-7. p. 87–88.
- ↑ https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/100770/1/Kelly_Brendan_201606_PhD_thesis.pdf page 189
- ↑ Gary Evans. In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. University of Toronto Press; 1991. ISBN 978-0-8020-6833-0. p. 110–.
- ↑ Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy. University of Toronto Press; 1991. ISBN 978-0-8020-6873-6. p. 16–.
- ↑ John M. Dirks A Cooperative Disagreement: Canada-United States Relations page 205
- ↑ Robert Bothwell. Alliance and Illusion: Canada and the World, 1945-1984. UBC Press; 1 November 2011. ISBN 978-0-7748-4088-0. p. 377–.
- ↑ Trudeau’s World: Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968-84. UBC Press; 1 October 2017. ISBN 978-0-7748-3640-1. p. 73–.
- ↑ Arthur E. Blanchette. Canadian Peacekeepers in Indochina 1954-1973: Recollections. Dundurn; 1 September 2001. ISBN 978-0-919614-96-3. p. 175–.
- ↑ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marcel-cadieux
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