bout de papier, Volume 8, Issue No. 1, 1990
Canadian Diplomacy: A View from the Fourth Estate
It is so easy to figure out what the Americans are thinking about the latest coup, declaration of war or arms cut proposals from abroad.
Comments on Comments by the Foreign Service
John Starnes comments on Stephen Lewis’s comments on defence policy:
Departmental Personnel Policy
In his column of April 28, Frank Howard of the Ottawa Citizen published excerpts of a telex emanating from the Embassy in Bonn:
The Press on Patronage and the Foreign Service
The following article, from the Sudan Times, Khartoum, was re-printed recently in the American Foreign Service Journal: It is with interest that we note… a perceived lack of strength in the ranks of the career diplomats in the Foreign Service. We note…
Not the Revue de Presse
Being snippets from the press that you are unlikely to see in the revue de presse.
Public — and Not-So-Public — Affairs
Having served two rather strenuous tours of duty as External’s Spokesman and Head of the Press Office — once in the early Fifties and again in the early Sixties — I thought I knew a fair amount about how to deal with…
In Case You Missed It
The column devoted to gleanings from the press and parliament on items of interest to the foreign service that one would not find in the Press Scan.
