Saul Rae 1914-1999
The following are excerpts from a eulogy by Jake Warren, retired Ambassador, at a Memorial Service for Saul Rae on Wednesday, January 13, 1999.
NATO Membership Enlargement — A Moral Issue
The word “expansion”, when applied to geo-political situations, connotes an element of calculated planning and irredentism which is wholly lacking in the current enlarged membership issue facing the NATO member states. In fact, in the intense planning for peace within the Alliance…
John Halstead C.M. 1923-1998
John Halstead was one of the ‘Greats’ of our Foreign Service. The service of Thanksgiving for his life was held on a bright, sunny day in mid-February. It was a celebration of one who followed until death his credo of giving the…
The Diplomacy of L.B. Pearson
by Geoffrey Pearson
Canada in the New World Disorder
While my subject is a bit less difficult than the examination question that asked candidates to describe the universe and give three examples, it has its problems. I shall try to be highly selective, but not, I hope, incoherent. I want to…
Letters // Correspondance
Émile Martel
Global Policymaking / Les politiques globales
The Policy Staff, the Trade and Economic Policy Branch and the Political and International Security Affairs Branch take the lead across a wide breadth to global political, security, economic and trade issues facing Canada.
Documents on Canadian External Relations, Vol. 19, 1953
This hefty volume (it weighs two kilograms) covers a single year. It was a year of startling events on the world stage: the inauguration of a new Republican Presidency in the United States which ended twenty years of Democratic dominance; the death…
Towards a New World Order
One of the more difficult problems now facing all NATO governments, individually and collectively, is how to structure national armed forces to meet the largely unknowable requirements of the decades ahead.
