Chester Ronning
The resonant Mandarin Chinese tones in which Chester Ronning told his colourful anecdotes convinced Chinese and foreigners alike that he was a man steeped in Chinese ways. Without doubt he was uniquely qualified to make a significant contribution to Canada’s relations with…
Paul Martin
With this issue we begin a series of interviews with former Secretaries of State for External Affairs. Paul Martin was SSEA during the Pearson years (1963-68). Member of Parliament since 1935, Paul Martin was later Government Leader in the Senate (1968-75) and…
Getting into External
Last summer this ad ran in Canada’s national newspaper. Bout de papier tracked down its author, Barry Yeates, a former foreign service officer who served in Washington, and asked about the experience. Mr. Yeates, currently manager, consultant and principal in Foreign Service…
An Interview With Charles Ritchie
We begin with this issue, a series of interviews with some of the great men and women who have served in the Canadian foreign service. Since his retirement from the Foreign Service in 1971, Charles Ritchie has written a series of books…
Letters to the Editor
Editor, Bout de Papier:
Attention Spouses! // Avis Aux Conjoints . . .
Some of you received a pamphlet entitled — Survivor’s Pension Benefits — enclosed with the last issue of PAFSO’s Bout de papier explaining the various pension benefits available to a spouse of an employee of the Department of External Affairs should the…
A PLAY ON REORGANIZATION
Eight organization charts, drawn side by side and left to speak for themselves: External Affairs I (1982), External Affairs II (1983), United Nations, American, Chinese, Women’s Lib, Vatican and Arab.
A SPECIAL ON RE-ENTRY
So you have just come back to Canada from a posting abroad! In this issue of the Bout de papier, we would like to direct you — as best as we can — through the confusion of homecoming.
“ABOVE ALL HISTORY”
Napoleon called history a fable agreed upon, Voltaire thought it was tricks we play on the dead. To Henry Ford it was bunk. To others, tradition and precedent became a ball and chain hindering progress. Such views on the usefulness of history…
REORGANIZED AGAIN
Well, the other shoe has dropped. We have been shaken up once again. It has been called an “organizational adjustment”, but what the Under-Secretary announced June 30 amounts to a second, fundamental reorganization of the Department of External Affairs. There is still…
