Witold Weynerowski fled Poland with his family shortly before his second birthday and two months after the German invasion of September 1, 1939. The remainder of the war was spent in Holland. The family emigrated to Canada in 1949. The author joined the Department of External Affairs in 1966 and took his retirement in 1993. He served in various senior capacities including that of Canadian Ambassador to Iraq, from 1980 to 1983, and to Tunisia and Libya, from 1983 to 1986.
