bout de papier, Volume 4, Issue No. 4, 1986
bout de papier, Volume 6, Issue No. 3, 1988
Imperial Twilight?
In past numbers of bout de papier, we have printed extracts from papers in the major project spearheaded by Escott Reid, a “Re-Examination of Canadian Foreign Policy (1951-52).” The intent of the series was to provide reference works as overall guidance for…
Panditji Pearson in Colombo: the View from Headquarters
The Conference of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers which took place in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) was the first such gathering to take place in Asia and it undoubtedly was a new and interesting experience for the members of the Canadian Delegation, which…
The Great Dominion: Churchill and Canada, 1900–1954
Note de la rédaction : Dans le second article de la série sur Churchill et le Canada, 1900-1954, David Bilks, professeur émérite de relations internationales a la University of Leeds, achève son tableau d’une relation très spéciale. Il documente l’extraordinaire appui du…
The Great Dominion
Note de la rédaction : Vous trouvez qu’on a suffisamment parlé de Winston Churchill? Pas au goût de Randolph Gherson, membre du comité supérieur de rédaction; grâce à ses bons offices, bout est heureux de publier une série de deux articles sur…
A Rich Broth: Memoirs of a Canadian Diplomat
This book can be read with interest and amusement both by those who are familiar with the Foreign Service and those who are not. Those familiar with diplomatic life will enjoy the opportunity to compare notes; those not familiar with it can…
The Constitutional Crisis and the Head of State
The Prime Minister’s decision to return Canada to a neo-colonial status by going directly to the Queen of Britain for authority to add eight new seats to the Senate ought to provoke a serious debate over the question of the Head of…
Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean
The Commonwealth Caribbean has had ties with Canada stretching back into the eighteenth century colonial system. Yet it, like Latin America, to which it is now more bureaucratically linked, has remained less attractive to the aspiring Foreign Service Officer than have other…
Llewellyn Stephens
After service in the Canadian Army, Llewellyn Stephens joined DEA in 1945, serving in a number of posts abroad and in Ottawa. He was High Commissioner to Pakistan from 1963-66. He died in Ottawa on August 1, 1991.
