Putting Paid to Palmy Days at the Yacht Club
The Auditor General’s report questioned the procedures leading to the purchase of 34 membership-debentures in Hong Kong’s Aberdeen Marina Club. The memberships were purchased as part of the department’s Recreational Hardship Support Service, a program set up on the recommendation of the…
Tarmac Diplomacy
A new chapter was added to the black art of aircraft clearances in the early days of November last year when our SSEA, Joe Clark, made his departure for Addis Ababa from Delhi after attending Mrs. Gandhi’s funeral. The morale of the…
Pols Pros and Grey Paper
Rumours of changes involving ministers, deputies, indeed the structure of both department and the foreign service, may prove little more than midsummer madness. We hope so. What the department does not need at a time when it is wrestling with such fundamental…
