bout de papier, Volume 7, Issue No. 4, 1990
Don Guillermo — A Valued Friend in Mexico
When Guillermo Pérez retired last November he had been in the service of the Embassy in Mexico for fifty years and forty seven days, chauffeur and friend to a dozen ambassadors, local guide to countless Canadian visitors. I knew Guillermo for only…
Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside
Hugh Keenleyside joined External Affairs by examination in 1928 and was sent the following year to open the Canadian Legation in Japan. On return to Canada in 1936 he assumed responsibility for American and Far Eastern Affairs.
Letters // Correspondance
We much enjoyed Hugh Stephens’ account of his 1991 trip to Pyongyang, North Korea (bout de papier, Vol. 9 No. 4) and congratulate him on it. Particularly interesting were his observations about Kaesong and the truce village of Panmunjon. As he says,…
