Elizabeth Pauline MacCallum

Overview

Elizabeth Pauline MacCallum born Marash, Turkey June 20, 1895 (d. 1985). First Canadian woman head of mission, Beirut 1954; Middle East expert; specialist at San Francisco conference on founding of UN and partition of Palestine; foresaw Kurdish discontent, and long conflict in Palestine.

Quotations

"The claims of the Jews were honourable and understandable. But weren't the claims of the Arabs just as honourable and understandable?" (1920s Foreign Policy Association study in Margaret Weiers, Envoys Extraordinary, p. 38, 1995; photo international.gc.ca)