Foulkes, Charles: my Army and political recollections (March 9, and June 5, 1967)

Rank: General. Medals and Honours: Companion of the Bath (CB); Order of the British Empire (CBE); Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

Interviewee: Foulkes, Charles, b. 1903

ABSTRACT: Gen. Charles Foulkes, 9 March 1967. 43pp. First briefing of Maj-Gen. Pearkes as Minister of National Defence. NORAD. Diefenbaker Government, a Cabinet Committee not allowed. Diefenbaker's problems at the NATO meeting in Paris. Mackenzie King. Difficult Diefenbaker attitudes, mostly bad. Canadian defence posture. Standardization, Canadian/American defence relations. Bomarc. Hansard, NATO, and nuclear implications well presented. Gen. Charles Foulkes, 5 June 1967. 39pp. Civil Defence background and the Dept. of National Defence. Costly plans for the survival of the government. Critical of Diefenbaker and nuclear weapon responsibilities. Practical problems of the provincial/federal civil defence. Evacuation and fall-out in relation to cities. The beginning of integration of the Armed Forces in 1946! Carried forward slowly by Pearkes. Indecisive Cabinet meetings. Canadian problems with defence production, the Arrow and the Bobcat. Pearkes as commander of the 1st Cdn. Division in England: tough! Pearkes' move to the Pacific Coast. Canadian Corps before Dieppe (1942). Pearkes, Mackenzie King, and others re "Zombies", conscription, etc. Diefenbaker's contradictions, dual control of nuclear weapons.

An interview/narrative of Charles Foulkes's recollections of Major-General Pearkes. General Foulkes worked with Pearkes who was Minister of National Defence at the time. Interview took place on March 9 and June 5, 1967.

Interviewer: Roy, Reginald H.

In Collection:

• Canadian Military Oral Histories

Contributor

• Roy, Reginald H.
• Foulkes, Charles, b. 1903

Subject

• Armed Forces--Officers
• North American Aerospace Defense Command
• Military history
• Pearkes, G. R. (George Randolph), 1888-1984
• Dieppe Raid (1942)

Language

• eng

Date created

• March 9, 1967 to June 5, 1967

Relation

• Part of the Social Sciences Research Centre collection of interviews.

Resource type

• Sound

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 sound recording (MP3)

Geographic coverage

• England

Coordinates

• 52.16045, -0.70312

Additional physical characteristics

• One original sound tape reel (ca. 45 min.) : 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 1 sound cassette copy : standard, mono. in Special Collections.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Canadian Military Oral History Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• reminiscences
• sound recordings
• interviews
• oral histories (literary genre)

Archival item identifier

• FC_218

Fonds title

• Reginald Herbert Roy fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC104

Is referenced by

• Special Collections Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/reginald-herbert-roy-fonds

Date digitized

• October 8, 2010

Technical note

• Digital sound recording in .wav format at 16 bits and 44 kHz. In .mp3 format at 56 kbps and 24 kHz. Digitized by JF, technical and cataloguing metadata provided by JF and JP. Transferred from audio reel to audio cassette between 1987-1997. Interview migrated to digital format for UVic Special Collections in 2010. Migration metadata by KD and MT.

Rights

• This interview has been posted with the understanding that it may be used for research purposes only. Should the interviewee or their heirs have any objections to this interview being accessible on the Internet, it will be removed promptly. Contact UVic Special Collections for permission if using for other than research purposes: speccoll@uvic.ca

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/0dbv-aa41

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