Golden Memories
When I reported for duty to the Department in June 1947 I went as directed to a ground floor office, in the same East Block where a month before I had felt intimidated by an oral board, and reported to Terry MacDermot,…
The Diplomacy of L.B. Pearson
by Geoffrey Pearson
External Affairs: Coming of Age 1946-1968 // L’essor, 1946-1968
Middle Power Diplomacy. The Golden Age of Canadian Foreign Policy. A Fundamental Re-examination.
Documents on Canadian External Relations, Vol. 19, 1953
This hefty volume (it weighs two kilograms) covers a single year. It was a year of startling events on the world stage: the inauguration of a new Republican Presidency in the United States which ended twenty years of Democratic dominance; the death…
George Bernard Summers, Q.C., LL.D. 1906-1993
Bernard Summers, the first Newfoundlander to enter the Canadian Foreign Service, died in Spain, after a long illness, on November 29, 1993. He will be remembered with respect and affection by many former colleagues.
The Foreign Policy Review of 1968
This is an excerpt from Mitchell Sharp’s memoirs, Which Reminds Me… (University of Toronto Press, 1993,228 pp., $35.00). The memoirs trace Mr. Sharp’s career from Ottawa mandarinate in the 1940s and the 1950s to Cabinet Minister through most of the 1960s and…
The One Hundred Days of the Last SSEA
On his last day as Secretary of State for External Affairs, Perrin Beatty discussed with the editor of bout de papier his impressions, memories and experiences of his stay in the Pearson Building
Alan McLaine
bout de papier is honoured to print below the text of the speaking notes for Mr. Blair Seaborn’s oral eulogy on that sad occasion. Editor
Paul Martin, 1903-1992
There will be a great variety of assessments of the life and work of the Right Honourable Paul Martin. It is fitting however that bout de papier contain an early appreciation of his service in the Department of External Affairs.
