Les hommes d’influence ou Verbatim
J’ai toujours prisé la lecture des journaux des conseillers des dirigeants politiques surtout depuis la parution aux États-Unis, il y a plusieurs années, des chroniques de Kissinger sous Nixon et Ford — The White House — The Years of Upheaval, suivies de…
Seize the Day: Lester B. Pearson and Crisis Diplomacy
Students of Canadian foreign policy, members of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and former colleagues of Lester Pearson already owe a considerable debt to Geoffrey Pearson for their appreciation of his father’s life and his…
Documents on Canadian External Relations, Vol. 19, 1953
This hefty volume (it weighs two kilograms) covers a single year. It was a year of startling events on the world stage: the inauguration of a new Republican Presidency in the United States which ended twenty years of Democratic dominance; the death…
Persiste et Signe
Edgar Pisani est un personnage hors du commun qu’il m’a été donné de rencontrer dans des fonctions officielles. Il a prononcé, à pied levé (sans doute s’y préparait-il depuis 73 ans) un discours que je n’hésite pas à qualifier de chef-d’oeuvre. Devant…
Foreign Service
As we plan to celebrate the centenary of the Trade Commissioner Service, John Kneale, a Fellow of the Foreign Service Institute, has published this excellent account of the life and work of an experienced trade officer, based on his postings in Algiers,…
Transition
Outsiders often wonder how government bureaucracies manage the transition to serving a new government, particularly after having served faithfully another political party for over nine years as was the case with the Ottawa bureaucracy and the Conservative government. The election of a…
PAFSO News // Nouvelles de l’APASE
Last issue, bout de papier published the letter that the President of PAFSO, Colin Robertson, sent to all political parties before the October federal election. The letter stated the Association’s views on a professional foreign service and its concerns over the increasing…
The Place of the Rainbow
A deep and malevolent rumbling, heard long before the source is seen, accompanied the earth’s steady trembling. Several columns of vapour, occasionally rising 500 metres into the air, hovered over the area and were visible from a distance of many kilometres. Approaching…
Orville Ault
Dr. Orville Ault died in Ottawa October 14, 1993 in his 94th year. He was a member of the faculty of Ottawa Teachers’ College, served from 1942-46 overseas in the Canadian Army, then became Director of Personnel Selection in the Civil Service…
George Bernard Summers, Q.C., LL.D. 1906-1993
Bernard Summers, the first Newfoundlander to enter the Canadian Foreign Service, died in Spain, after a long illness, on November 29, 1993. He will be remembered with respect and affection by many former colleagues.
