Moscow Despatches “Inside Cold War Russia”
Reviewed by Geoffrey Pearson
NATO: Reviewed, Revised and Renewed
What I have to say about the review of Canada’s participation in NATO, following the election of the first Trudeau government in 1968, will be my personal recollections. They will be of a general character as befits a Minister. In the nature…
Containment: Forty Years Later
We asked four retired Canadian diplomats: George Grande, John Halstead, John Holmes and George Ignatieff for their views on the success of containment. They all reread Kennan’s famous piece and then went to work.
Sécurité commune
Le seul gage solide de paix est une meilleure compréhension entre Moscou et Washington
Herbert Norman
Born in Japan, the son of missionaries, Herbert Norman joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1939 and served in Tokyo, Wellington and Cairo, in the latter two posts as Canadian High Commissioner and Ambassador respectively. While posted to Cairo he commited suicide…
A Perfect Spy
John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) has done it again in his latest novel, A Perfect Spy (Book-of-the-Month Club main selection). I found it among the best of his books I have read or seen portrayed on film and TV. A…
Breaking with Moscow
This is an important book, and perhaps especially so for those in and beyond Ottawa who prefer to see the world exclusively through North/South rather than East/West prisms.
