Mont Tremblant Conference
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The Mont Tremblant Conference, or the Eighth International Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, was a conference held at Mont-Tremblant in Quebec, Canada, in December 1942, organized by the Institute of Pacific Relations. Unofficial delegates from 12 countries met to discuss the waging of World War II in the Pacific theatre, and the structure of international affairs after the war, with a particular focus on the welfare of countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Mont Tremblant Conference
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Host country | Canada |
Date | December 4–14, 1942 |
Venue(s) | Mount Tremblant Lodge[1] |
Cities | Mont Tremblant |
Participants | Australia Canada China Dutch East Indies Free France India Korea (government in exile) Netherlands New Zealand Philippines Thailand United Kingdom United States |
Chair | Alfred Sao-ke Sze |
Precedes | Hot Springs, Virginia conference, 1945 |
The conference was held shortly after the signing of the Atlantic Charter and nearly a year after the initial creation of the United Nations,[2] so delegates to the conference debated their competing interpretations of the Charter, and discussed what the war in the Pacific portended for the postwar order. The main dispute in the conference was the American delegation's critiques of British colonial policy, and the British delegation's concerns that America might return to isolationism after the war, which they worried could threaten world stability if Britain also pursued decolonization.
Historians have tended to view the conference as a reflection, more than a cause, of wartime and postwar international policy. Historical analyses of the conference have focused on its role as an early forum for conversation about decolonization, which was made possible by its timing, its focus on the Pacific, and its inclusion of delegates from a number of countries that had not been included in other major wartime conferences. Substantial time at the conference was devoted to the interests of India and Korea, which was a departure from the focus on Europe that had characterized most previous discussions about the postwar order.