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Beginning and Ending: A Canadian Ambassador in Moscow
There is a wonderful image of exhaustion and elation in Chariots of Fire when Eric Liddell wins the 400 metres at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924. The cinematic treatment of that event stresses his unlikely victory (in a race longer…
Unofficially Dull But Officially Sharp
In this selection of documents, we depart from our usual practice of reprinting unpublished material from files at Library and Archives Canada. Instead, to complement the material elsewhere in this issue about Canada’s response to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968…
Habits of Hospitality: La genèse du Bureau du protocole
bout de papier is pleased to adapt and reprint an extract from Habits of Hospitality: A Short History of the Origins of the Protocol Division by Fred McEvoy, an Ottawa-based historian and writer, and Greg Donaghy, the Head of the Historical Section…
Post in a Prominent Place:
Although it is well understood that Canadian diplomats never succumb to temptation — other than those indulgences specifically authorized and funded by the Foreign Service Directives — the following documents are reprinted as an educational service for those members of PAFSO who…
First Days in the Foreign Service, 1952
Rummaging in old papers can be fun. The other day I came across the following letter dated September 22, 1952 to my parents in Princeton, New Jersey, recounting my first, deeply naive but enthusiastic week, at External Affairs. I and seven others…
Lester B. Pearson
In the spring of 1947, the year after Mike Pearson returned from his glorious American summer, he turned 50. There is no suggestion that he suffered a mid-life crisis — if such an
Prose, not Poetry
Scholars and others may debate whether or not there was a “golden age of Canadian diplomacy” but there is little doubt that Canadian diplomats of the 1940s and 1950s were distinguished not only by the quality of their despatches and memoranda but…
