Le carnet du rédacteur en chef
Le 20 janvier, M. Chrétien, sous-secrétaire d’État associé, a fait salle comble à l’amphithéâtre de l’immeuble Pearson, après avoir offert d’y rencontrer le personnel du Ministère. La rencontre tombait pile en cette période où les restrictions et les réductions de dépenses, jumelées…
John Wendell Holmes
John Wendell Holmes died August 13 in London, Ontario after a full and rewarding life devoted to international understanding. He never aspired to high office and was embarrassed by compliments. Yet during his 78 years he managed to combine three brilliant careers…
The One-Man Post: A Growing Phenomenon
In this era of stretched resources, one of the devices the Department has resorted to in order to improve program delivery in the most cost-effective manner – in this case delivery of the trade program — has been the creation of a…
Waldheim Fooled Canada Too
Amid all the brouhaha over the World War II activities of Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria and former two-term Secretary General of the United Nations, it seems to have been forgotten that Canada was the first country to which Austria appointed him…
Russian and Russians are No Enigma When You Know Both
The question of how it is that the Soviet Union fields so many English-speaking officials while our side fields so few came out in stark relief last June when the Soviet authorities pulled their service staff out of our Moscow embassy in…
I’ve Seen the Enemy and the Enemy is US
Throughout history mankind has devised ways to better his lot. Better organization. Better technology. Better education. Unfortunately, we are almost equally good at injuring ourselves by doing things like stiffling technology, fighting wars and setting false priorities.
Letters // Correspondance
Editor,
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
Democracy is alive and well at PAFSO. At the fall Annual General Meeting over fifty percent of the membership elected 11 new members to the Executive out of a slate of 20 candidates. I believe that we now have a very strong…
Editor’s Notebook
This issue of bout de papier is dedicated to the memory of the life and work of John W. Holmes who died August 13, 1988. Although he spent more of his working life as a scholar and a teacher, John Holmes made…
Comments on Comments by the Foreign Service
John Starnes comments on Stephen Lewis’s comments on defence policy:
