bout de papier, Volume 21, Issue No. 4, 2005
Ronning Amok?
On New Year’s Day, 1969, Pierre Trudeau was interviewed by Norman Depoe for the CBC. In the course of their discussion, the Prime Minister casually questioned the justification for diplomatic representation in the modern world and he suggested that much of what…
Letter // Lettre
Editor, very much enjoyed ine two cover stone Lin vour Winter 2005 edition and woul like to add footnotes to each.
Left Behind In Nanjing
As Chester Ronning closed the doors of the Canadian Embassy C in China in 1951, police arrested innocent locally-engaged employee Tessie Wong
Chester Ronning: A Canadian Diplomat
by Sidney Freifeld
Reluctant Adversaries
Canada is now at one of the lowest points in our long relationship with China. Canada’s offer of permanent residence to PRC citizens unwilling to return to China after June 1989 and her strong stand on human rights issues have irked the…
Chester Ronning
The resonant Mandarin Chinese tones in which Chester Ronning told his colourful anecdotes convinced Chinese and foreigners alike that he was a man steeped in Chinese ways. Without doubt he was uniquely qualified to make a significant contribution to Canada’s relations with…
