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The good fight : Marcel Cadieux and Canadian diplomacy
\"Before official bilingualism was established in 1969, francophones were scarce in the Canadian public service. Marcel Cadieux was one of the few, becoming arguably the most important francophone diplomat and civil servant in Canadian history. Brendan Kelly's insightful, entertaining biography reveals a complex figure. Born in 1915 to a Montreal letter carrier who believed that \"having a son in Ottawa is like having a daughter who is a prostitute,\" Cadieux held the nationalist views of many young French Canadians in the 1930s. Yet he made the distinctly unconventional decision to join the Department of External Affairs in 1941. Against the backdrop of rising Quebec separatism and the Cold War, he headed the department from 1964 to 1970 and served as Canada's first francophone ambassador to the United States from 1970 to 1975. Drawing on Cadieux's unpublished diary--where this blunt, witty, strong-minded man was at his most unguarded--The Good Fight offers a unique window to domestic and foreign events and personalities whose legacies are still being debated. Cadieux believed deeply in the dignity of public service, writing several books on this theme. The principles reflected in his career still speak eloquently to readers today, when professionalism and expertise are often undervalued.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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La luce nell'oblio : illuminismo e massoneria nella Persia cagiara
The link between Iran and European cultures has a much older history than recent geopolitical events and, in the decades immediately preceding the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, the contact between Persia and Europe planted the seed in a ground ready for the growth of modern ideas, ambition, aspirations, new values and, consequently, for the birth of a modern class made up of intellectuals inspired by the Enlightenment and Freemasonry. The following essay will address the history of freemasonry in Persia: from the first contacts that occurred with the first trips of Iranian diplomats to Europe, up to the successful attempt to create a recognized lodge in 1908 in Tehran, passing through the history of the controversial “House of oblivion” in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Blinken meets China's top diplomat in Beijing
Secretary of State Antony Blinken sat down June 19 with China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, on the second and final day of his Beijing visit.
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Obituary : Roger Essex Burchall Peren
Pays tribute to the late retired diplomat who helped develop the diplomatic service in New Zealand, and became the foundation director of the New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies in 1987. Cites comment from colleague Brian Lynch about his stellar career in Asia. Notes his contributions to academia and to the New Zealand Institute for International Affairs. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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