Sails of the South Pacific
“I say! I say! Aren’t you Liebnitz, the puzzle wizard?” The vacationing logician found himself face to face with a tall bluff man sporting a white walrus moustache, his red face beaming and his three-piece tweed suit totally unsuitable for the tropical…
Which Reminds Me … A Memoir
In Canada, there are three basic types of political/bureaucratic memoirs. The first is a pastiche of self-serving vignettes dictated into a tape recorder and carefully stitched together into a readable but not very informative whole by a professional writer. Most have a…
Malaysian Development: A Retrospective
This volume is a unique and valuable contribution to understanding the pattern of economic development of Malaysia. It consists of fourteen articles written between 1970 and 1987 by an established Canadian academic who has specialized in the study of South East Asia.…
The Perfect English Spy (Sir Dick White and the Secret War 1935-90)
Chock full of information about security and intelligence operations, mostly British and American, this book provides extraordinary insights into Dick White’s unique stewardship of MI5 and MI6 over many years. It does not capture, however, White’s complex personality nor does it provide…
The Voyage and “Foreign Affairs”
This is it!!! Have we died and gone to heaven?
Reflections on China’s Wall
Everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China; a massive structure, five metres high and almost as wide, originally built over 2,000 years ago, stretching in a continuous, unbroken line across the north of China for thousands of miles, protecting her…
John Lawrence Paynter, 1941-1995
The following was prepared for the Memorial Service held for John Paynter at the Asia Centre (University of British Columbia) in November 1995.
A New Political Impulse to Economic and Trade Cooperation
Towards an OECD Free Trade Area and Optional Free Trade Areas for the Newly Industrialized and Lesser Developed Countries
Envoys Extraordinary — Women of the Canadian Foreign Service
The following two excerpts are taken from Margaret Weiers’ Envoys Extraordinary: Women of the Canadian Foreign Service, Dundurn Press, 1995, $29.99.
A Giant Game of Scrabble
“It’s almost like a giant Scrabble game … It’s arcane. We dance around commas, we argue over ‘ands’ and ‘ors’. But in the end, we come up with an agreement that reflects the substance, the positive message that we wanted to put…
