Freifeld On: Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry A . . .
To those of us who were his close friends and neighbours in the early days of the United Nations, the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize award to Ralph Bunche came hardly as a surprise. We knew that not only human being but that,…
Dancing Cheek to Cheek
On December 5 the department held a dinner dance at the new Convention Centre. It was a smashing success with the RCMP Band playing a medley of popular tunes that kept the dance floor full. Our FS1(Ds) provided a series of very…
The Dinner Party
Napoleon gave this advice to his Ambassador going to Warsaw:
Gone From Sight
Missing sons and those tense social functions comprise this time’s tales. Keep them coming.
Freifeld On: Diefenbaker in Dublin
It was on a January morning in 1961 that a cypher telegram from External Affairs in Ottawa came in to the Canadian Embassy in Dublin informing us that, in response to an earlier invitation, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, accompanied by Mrs. Diefenbaker,…
Advice Forgotten
by Alfred Pick
La formation sur le tas
Bathtub gin, pathos in Pretoria and a voyage to Cochabamba all make for a good read. Keep those tales rolling. We give book prizes for the best stories.
A Case of Mistaken Identity
None of the homework that my wife Crenia and I did in anticipation of our posting to Ireland in any way prepared us for what was to happen one night at a black tie dinner at the Official Residence of the French…
