Temp Feaver
Herbert Frederick Brooks-Hill Feaver, known always to friends and acquaintances alike as Temp, died in Ottawa on January 11, 1988, at the age of 80. He had been ailing for some time, but his final illness was mercifully short.
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
This is my last column for bout de papier, written with one foot on the airplane. Thanks to CIDA’s decentralization plans, I am being posted to Dar-es-Salaam, from whence it will be very difficult to come back for Executive meetings and other…
Editor’s Notebook
Promotions are cause for champagne and celebration. But not so for the Editorial Board of bout de papier. Promotion has robbed bout of our editor only months after he slipped so naturally into the position. Dan Livermore has left a distinct legacy…
Spring in Fort Pearson
bout de papier, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1988) — Spring 1988 // Printemps 1988, p. 37 It may be true that Ottawa has buttwo seasons, winter and July. But Springdoes come each year to Pearson’s fort. I knowfor I have read the subtle signs. In Springa young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of posts,the middle […]
Departmental Personnel Policy
In his column of April 28, Frank Howard of the Ottawa Citizen published excerpts of a telex emanating from the Embassy in Bonn:
A Matter of Principle
There has always been a fuzzy line when it comes to the limits of consular assistance to be provided to Canadians abroad. There is the constant judgement call which must be made between following our consular mandate by providing legitimate assistance to…
Mr. Mackenzie King and the Onset of War, 1937-1941
by James A. Gibson
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du président
Members in Canada watching television on January 24 will almost certainly have tuned in to a late evenig CTV interview of Minister Clark by Doug Fisher. For those of you who missed it, it was an interesting session touching, variously, on Central…
Communications
A few months ago, the executive of PAFSO swapped the normally-hurried week-day lunch for the expansive luxury of an all-day Saturday meeting. It was a strategy session, designed to reflect on what the organization was doing, where it needed to go in…
Vignettes
…extracts of three articles on a common theme: women in the foreign service.
