bout de papier, Volume 11, Issue No. 4 – Vol 12, 1995
Unmentionables
Here are three excerpts from Not Mentioned in Dispatches / Confidences peu diplomatiques, the recently released collection of over 50 intriguing stories and anecdotes published by our colleague organization the Retired Heads of Mission Association (l’Association des chefs de mission a la…
Some Principles // Quelques principes
L’été est arrivé et bon nombre de nos collègues aux ministères des Affaires mondiales et d’Immigration Réfugiés et Citoyenneté partent pleins d’enthousiasme pour commencer leur affectation à l’étranger, alors que d’autres reviennent (parfois avec moins d’enthousiasme) à l’administration centrale.
Retirees on the go – Des retraités actifs
When our Ambassadors, Consuls General and High Commissioners retire from the public service, they usually join the Retired Heads of Mission Association, l’Association des Chefs de Mission a la Retraite. They do so principally because they want to stay in touch with…
Canada’s Diplomatic Spouses and the Debt We Owe Them
Prior to departing for Egypt in 1976, I was given letters of introduction to a number of prominent personalities by R.A.D. Ford and his wife Thereza, friends of my parents. They were in the latter stages of a 16-year tenure in Moscow…
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…
Ambassador Assignments: Canadian Diplomats Reflect on our Place in the World
Ambassador Assignments: Canadian Diplomats Reflect on our Place in the World is the second volume of ambassadorial memoirs edited by retired Ambassador David Chalmer Reece (the first was Special Trust and Confidence: Envoy Essays in Canadian Diplomacy published in 2003). Reece has…
An Open Letter to PAFSO
Dear colleagues:
Meet Paul Martin Sr.
Editor’s Note: John Hadwen is a retired foreign service officer and a member of the editorial board of bout de papier. The circumstances of his first appointment as head of post — as High Commissioner to Malaysia and Singapore as well as…
One Foreign Service Officer’s Experience
I have been in the Foreign Service for 15 years and will be going on my fifth posting this summer. I have been in a relationship for 20 years and my spouse has never been on posting with me because of the…
