Editing William Lyon Mackenzie King (section)

==== Foreign affairs, Cold War ====
King helped found the [[United Nations]] (UN) in 1945 and attended the opening meetings in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Visits By Foreign Leaders in 1945 |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/visits/1945 |website=Office of the Historian |access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref> Though he conceded that [[Great power|major powers]] such as the United States and the United Kingdom would dominate the organization, King argued that [[middle power]]s such as Canada should be given an influence on the UN based on their contributions to the settlement of disputes.<ref name="Neatby" />

King moved Canada into the deepening [[Cold War]] in alliance with the U.S. and Britain. He dealt with the espionage revelations of Soviet cipher clerk [[Igor Gouzenko]], who defected in Ottawa in September 1945, by quickly appointing a [[Kellock-Taschereau Commission|Royal Commission]] to investigate Gouzenko's allegations of a [[Canadians|Canadian]] Communist spy-ring transmitting top-secret documents to Moscow. [[Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada|Justice Minister]] [[Louis St. Laurent]] dealt decisively with this crisis, the first of its type in Canada's history.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hutchison |first=Bruce |date=1964 |title=Mr. Prime Minister 1867–1964 |url=https://archive.org/details/mrprimeministe100hutc |url-access=registration |location=Toronto |publisher=Longmans Canada }}</ref> St. Laurent succeeded King as external affairs minister in September 1946.<ref name="Neatby" />