Diplomatic Anecdotes
A history professor at Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, B.C., Gordon Martel has combed nearly three hundred diplomatic memoirs for anecdotes illustrative of the life and work of Foreign Service officers abroad over the past century. Six excerpts from this collection…
Caption That Photo Contest
Editor’s Note: We are grateful to Colin Robertson (Hong Kong) who sent us this photo for the Photo Caption Contest.
Canada and the New World Order / Le Canada et le nouvel ordre mondial
In the past year we have been exposed to a barrage of references to a “new world order”, and the PAFSO Professional Committee was quick off the mark to help members to define what this is all about, and what it means…
Constitution-Building in Namibia: Could it Happen Here?
“In the process of negotiating, bargaining and hammering out this constitution, the Namibians developed a special Namibian way of resolving internal differences and contradictions. The method is:
A “New Internationalism”?
Some Canadian governments consider it desirable to encapsulate the thrust of their foreign policy in code words or phrases. Mackenzie King was anxious that his government should be recognized internationally, after the Second World War, as enjoying authority as well as status.…
Sonnet 435
bout de papier, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1990), p. 39 by Sam Hanson A dry and dusty, bright and sunburnt landLast year was host to the United Nations.They’d come, they said, to take the place in hand:In freedom’s cause, with numbrous delegations.Others briefly came, and then complained:“The BOERS keep these simple folk in thrall!”The PEOPLE, […]
This Shouldn’t Happen to A…
(Editor’s note: Sidney Freifeld’s new book about some of the amusing sidelights of the Department over the years, Undiplomatic Notes: Tales from the Canadian Foreign Service, is being published by Hounslow Press in October.)
Frank Stone
Frank Stone joined the Department in 1949 and served in Bonn, Geneva, Washington and as Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N. in Geneva. He was Canada’s Ambassador to Pakistan before retiring from the Department in 1979. He died in Ottawa on December…
George Ignatieff: A Diplomat and Peace-Monger
par Yvon Beaulne
Shades of Green in Longer Shadows
by Geoffrey Murray
