bout de papier, Vol. 9, No. 4 (1992) — Fall 1992 // Automne 1992, p. 37
Jack was an accomplished linguist in Russian, German, Spanish and French. He served in the Intelligence Corps in World War II. Joining External Affairs in 1943, he was posted immediately to the Embassy in Kuibyshev, to which diplomatic missions had been evacuated from Moscow. After the war he served in the Canadian Military Mission in Berlin, Prague, Belgrade, the CBC International Service, the Imperial Defence College in London, Madrid, as Chief of Protocol in Ottawa, Adviser to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Minister and then Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Ambassador to Austria and a Governor of the TAEC, and lastly as Ambassador to Poland, from where he retired in 1975. Jack was a member of the Senior Editorial Board of bout de papier. He died in Ottawa 23 May 1992.
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