A Stubble-Jumper in Striped Pants : : Memoirs of a Prairie Diplomat / / Earl G. Drake.
In the spring of 1989, Earl Drake, Canadian ambassador to China, found himself in the midst of the Tiananmen Square crisis. Asked to evacuate Beijing's Canadian residents in a hurry, to maintain control of the embassy, and to provide a voice of reason to the media, he resolved to write his memo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1. A Prairie Puritan from Saskatchewan
- 2. A Neophyte at External: Ottawa, 1955 and 1959-1961
- 3. Getting Hooked on the Foreign Service: Pakistan, 1956-1958
- 4. A Dancing Leader: Prime Minister Suhrawardy of Pakistan
- 5. Confrontation and Partisanship: Malaysia, 1961-1964
- 6. An Avuncular Leader: Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia
- 7. International Development: Ottawa, 1965-1968 and 1972-1975
- 8. The Temptations of Paris: The OECD, 1968-1972
- 9. The Mighty World Bank: Washington, 1975-1982
- 10. A Controversial Leader: McNamara of the World Bank
- 11. The Poetic in the Midst of Reality: Indonesia, 1982-1983
- 12. An Iconoclast in China: Beijing, 1987-1989
- 13. Tiananmen Crisis: China, 1989-1990
- 14. An Unloved Leader: Premier Li Peng of China
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index