John Hadwen 1923–2007
The following is the tribute given by James (Si) Taylor at the Memorial Service on Friday, September 7, 2007. John Hadwen was a member of the senior editorial board of bout de papier and a constant supporter of the foreign service.
A Year of Self-Funded Leave
Picture this. You are in remote Borneo, climbing Southeast Asia’s highest mountain and enjoying some of the greatest biological diversity on the planet. You start out early in the morning with a spring in your step and frequent stops to soak in…
Paving the Way in Delhi
Fifty years ago I was on temporary duty in South Africa, after three years in Australia, when a telegram came from Ottawa ordering me to go to Delhi to “pave the way for a new mission”. Those were the days when one…
Fifty Years of Independence: The Legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru
by William Warden It was the summer of 1983 when we picked up our belongings and followed -t was the summer of 1983 when we – the route of the Moghul Emperors down the Grand Trunk Road from Rawalpindi to Delhi. Two…
Growing Up in the Foreign Service
Life in the Foreign Service has its ups and downs, and who is better qualified to talk about these trials than the children of Foreign Service officers?
An Asian Day is Over / Une journée en Asie c’est déjà terminée
The ADM returns to his office. He stops to ask one of the officers how the trade awards went in Indonesia. No word until tomorrow. It is now about nine o’clock in the evening in most of the Asian posts. The Asian…
Moving Day in Bombay
It was moving day at last. Sari, suit and salwar kameez were exchanged for jeans and T-shirts. It was difficult to believe that the years of negotiating and planning, setbacks and problems, anticipation and despair, were over. Well, almost over. It was…
Bombay Daze
An elephant’s skin: grey and creased. Below, the tide begins to reclaim the mudflats, the muddy water creeping forward in the gentle folds of a pachyderm’s hide. The returning waters displace dazzling white herons, replete after a morning’s fishing and beckon the…
1992 Photo Contest Winners
bout de papier received over 200 entrants for our first-ever Photo Contest which was sponsored by Tradex Management Inc. There were three Winners, three Honourable Mentions, and three Judges.
Roland Michener: The Last Viceroy
Roland Michener was not a dull man. Unfortunately, Peter Stursburg’s biography of him, The Last Viceroy, is a dull book and, in my view, fails to convey to the reader the real nature of the man.
