Civilian Life
He served as Deputy Minister of Veterans’ Affairs. He served as a President of the UNAC during the 1950s.
He played a critical role in the Middle East peace process from 1954 to 1959. He was instrumental in developing UN peacekeeping. As Chief of Staff in 1954, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) was designed to maintain the General Armistice Agreements until permanent peace could be formulated.
He served as a Special Staff of the Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine (1954–56) with the Department of External Affairs and was thus nearby when the Suez Crisis of 1956 occurred. He led the UNEF from November 1956 to December 1959. He was Canada’s principal disarmament negotiator from 1960-68.
He held the chair of Strategic Studies at the Norman Paterson School for International Affairs, Carleton University from 1969-75. He wrote “Between Arab and Israeli” (1962); “General Mud: memoirs of two World Wars” (1970) and "Defense in the Nuclear Age" (1976).
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