bout de papier, Volume 6, Issue No. 4, 1989
Letters // Correspondance
I would like to offer two postscripts to the piece on Victor Odlum’s evacuation planning (Vol. 6 No. 4). While it is true that the famous evacuation plan never had to be carried out, Odlum did organize a safari of Embassy locally-engaged…
Preparing for the Worst: Post Evacuation à la Victor Odlum
One of the most colourful appointees as a Canadian Head of Post was General Victor Odlum. He was originally appointed in 1940 as our first High Commissioner to Australia (in order to relieve the Prime Minister of the political embarrassment of having…
