Percy Stewart Cooper
As part of a successful career in the Canadian Armed Forces, Brigadier Cooper served twice as Military Adviser to the Canadian Delegation to the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Laos in 1956-57 and 1961-62. He was seconded to External Affairs…
Elsie M. Falls (Morris)
Elsie Falls died suddenly in hospital in Ottawa on Thursday, January 6, 1994. Elsie was the Accountant and Benefits Administrator of PAFSO’s life insurance program from 1972 to 1985. Upon her retirement in 1985, Elsie moved to Carp, Ontario and married her…
An Unexpected Invitation
It happened quite some time ago: during the summer of 1958. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was still very much a going concern under the inspired and undisputed leadership of Marshal Tito. The fifteenth anniversary celebrations of the dismal failure of…
The Foreign Policy Review of 1968
This is an excerpt from Mitchell Sharp’s memoirs, Which Reminds Me… (University of Toronto Press, 1993,228 pp., $35.00). The memoirs trace Mr. Sharp’s career from Ottawa mandarinate in the 1940s and the 1950s to Cabinet Minister through most of the 1960s and…
Third Culture Kids
Nothing adds veracity to writing like first-hand experience. Robin Pascoe’s second book on family life in the foreign service proves that she is writing about a subject she knows intimately. Culture Shock – Successful Living Abroad: A Parent’s Guide (Times Editions Pte…
Witness to a Collapsing Empire
As diplomats, perhaps one last pilgrimage to the Kremlin or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have been more appropriate. But we chose to say good-bye to Russia in St. Petersburg at the Piscariovskaya Memorial to the victims of the 900-day siege…
A Week of Red October in Moscow
We live on Kutuzovski Prospekt. It is a much travelled street nine lanes wide, bringing travellers from the west of Moscow into the heart of the city, past the White House on to Prospekt Kalinina, and then to the Kremlin. We live…
The One Hundred Days of the Last SSEA
On his last day as Secretary of State for External Affairs, Perrin Beatty discussed with the editor of bout de papier his impressions, memories and experiences of his stay in the Pearson Building
Marler House in Tokyo
On 27 May, 1991, Prince Takamado, a cousin of the Emperor, met the Prime Ministers of Canada and Japan in Marler House in Tokyo to sign a document commemorating the opening of the new chancery. If ghosts could return, the spirit of…
Soda Bombs and Soup Mix
Protocol. Precedent. Panic.
