Freifeld On: Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry A . . .
To those of us who were his close friends and neighbours in the early days of the United Nations, the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize award to Ralph Bunche came hardly as a surprise. We knew that not only human being but that,…
Write your own Caption Contest
bout de papier, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1985) — Fall 1985 // Automne 1985, p. 43 In fact, it’s a shot of Andrew MacNaughton, George Ignatieff and an unidentified colleague near Lake Success at the United Nations. View the original scanned pages → Originally published in bout de papier, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1985) — […]
We Interviewed John Holmes
Behind the ruddy-elfin features, owlish eyebrows and sliding glasses are a pair of penetrating eyes that give a measure of their owner. Gentleman, scholar and diplomat, John Holmes embodies the talents and traits of all three professions.
General Tommy Burns
Tommy Burns died on September 13 at age 88. He was many things: soldier, teacher, writer, scholar and bureaucrat. But most of all he was a peacekeeper and peacemaker. He dedicated his post-war career to service in the United Nations peacekeeping operations…
The Making of a Peacemonger
I unhesitatingly commend to Bout de papier readers — of whatever vintage and stream — that they read George Ignatieff’s shortish book. First, it is a highly entertaining and witty “good read” – quite a rarity among memoirs dealing with Canada’s foreign…
Breaking with Moscow
This is an important book, and perhaps especially so for those in and beyond Ottawa who prefer to see the world exclusively through North/South rather than East/West prisms.
Paul Martin
With this issue we begin a series of interviews with former Secretaries of State for External Affairs. Paul Martin was SSEA during the Pearson years (1963-68). Member of Parliament since 1935, Paul Martin was later Government Leader in the Senate (1968-75) and…
A PLAY ON REORGANIZATION
Eight organization charts, drawn side by side and left to speak for themselves: External Affairs I (1982), External Affairs II (1983), United Nations, American, Chinese, Women’s Lib, Vatican and Arab.
