Lydia’s Revenge
“When will you be returning from lunch, Ludwig?” Lydia asked sharply as Liebnitz headed out the door.
Une diplomatie de l’espoir. Le Canada et le désarmement 1945-1988
Il faut féliciter Albert Legault et Michel Fortmann pour la somme de travail qu’ils ont fournie dans la préparation de ce volumineux ouvrage. Une diplomatie de l’espoir est, en effet, comme son titre l’indique, une étude complète de la politique canadienne vis-à-vis…
The State, Business and Industrial Change in Canada
Except for the discussion a year or two ago about a Federal Business Development Bank loan program for strip clubs, we have not heard much about industrial policy lately. It was different back in the 1970s, when a great deal of political…
Roland Michener: The Last Viceroy
Roland Michener was not a dull man. Unfortunately, Peter Stursburg’s biography of him, The Last Viceroy, is a dull book and, in my view, fails to convey to the reader the real nature of the man.
Documents on Canadian External Relations, Vol. 11 and Vol. 18
How does one set about reviewing 2322 documents collected in two massive volumes with a combined thickness of six and a half inches? Before such a presence, imposing in its rich red and black bindings with gilt lettering, the humble reviewer must…
Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean
The Commonwealth Caribbean has had ties with Canada stretching back into the eighteenth century colonial system. Yet it, like Latin America, to which it is now more bureaucratically linked, has remained less attractive to the aspiring Foreign Service Officer than have other…
Canadese: A Portrait of the Italian Canadians
The literature on Italian-Canadians — not unlike that on many other ethnocultural minorities — has undergone in recent decades an important transition. At its early stage it was dominated by the filiopietistic genre — a type of writing that celebrates the past…
Cairo in the War — 1939-1945
Artemis Cooper, married to the writer Antony Beevor, is the grand-daughter of Duff and Diana Cooper. Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount of Norwich, was Minister of Information in Churchill’s cabinet from 1940-42 and British Ambassador to France from 1944 to 1947.…
The Foreign Service Academy: “Teaching the New Thinking on Foreign Policy”
The long-awaited, much heralded Foreign Service Academy has opened its doors for business. This is great news for Foreign Service officers who have argued for years for an institute to provide ongoing professional upgrading. At the first annual Homecoming Football Game between…
Rt. Hon. Roland Michener
A distinguished lawyer, Roland Michener was first elected as a member of the Ontario Legislature and later to the Parliament of Canada, where he subsequently became Speaker of the House of Commons for five years. He served as High Commissioner to India…
