bout de papier, Volume 8, Issue No. 2, 1991
Don Collier
Don Collier was a foreign service officer who was happiest when on a posting. His love of travel and seeing the world began soon after he discovered studying engineering did not play to his strengths. Working at the university radio station did…
Low Politics
Visits by Ministers and other VIPs can be the bane of a diplomat’s existence at an overseas post – so many things to go awry, so little appreciation when things go right. Murphy’s Law usually takes over. One incident, forever etched in…
Impressions of a Short Visit to North Korea
As a veteran of the Cold War and the realities of the division of the two Germanies, the parallel with the Korean situation has not gone unremarked. Unlike the German Democratic Republic, however, to which I was accredited from 1984-86, I have…
