Murder by Cuisine
In the last year of the millennium, diplomats awoke to the existence of a vast plot against them. Years of dire personal experience and high-profile disaster — the Pineapple and Fungus Soup or Second Xian Incident (1982), the Chocolate-covered Chitlins Affair (Little…
If Only I Had Known
Foreigners living in Japan have a saying: “After you have lived here for two weeks you can write a book about it; after two years, an article; but after five years you cannot seem to put pen to paper.” Mary Taylor has…
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
Two years ago, John Lewis Gaddis spoke about the impact of the release of Russian and East European records on our understanding of the Cold War in a seminar at the Lester B. Pearson Building which was arranged in collaboration with the…
Vu Du Quai
Ceux que la politique étrangère de la France intéresse auront quelques bonnes heures de lecture devant eux, s’ils s’avisent de lire les mémoires que ce diplomate français vient de publier. Cet ouvrage est à la fois informatif, anecdotique et enrichissant, parce qu’il…
Day One
Day One for me was August 30, 1993, and I joined the Department as a vision of sartorial safety; a bureaucratic fashion plate for the ’90s. My steel blue, round-around-the-middle Sears suit ensured I would blend into my surroundings, as if I…
Words Not Deeds
Nearly a decade after the “war to end all wars” statesmen gathered in Paris to sign the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, more commonly known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact in honour of its principal sponsors, American Secretary of State Frank…
South-Eastern Turkey — History to Burn
Those who have had the pleasure to be posted to Ankara know very well the gem that Turkey is. From a professional point of view, the internal politics combined with the complex mixture of Turkey’s relations with the EU, Greece, Former Soviet…
Leo P. Martin, PAFSO Executive Director 1975-83
Leo Martin died peacefully Thursday, December 3, 1998 at age 79. Leo devoted his working life in service of Canada, from his tour of duty with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (R.C.A.S.C.), during WWII, through to his retirement from the federal…
Marion Macpherson 1924-1998
Following is the text of the eulogy delivered by Vernon Turner at the memorial service for Marion Macpherson.
Lucien Lamoureux 1920-1998
The little church in Aylmer, Quebec, in which Lucien Lamoureux was baptized in 1920, recently held a memorial service for its most distinguished member.
