THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | APRIL-MAY 2025 91 Affairs in 1953 and retired in 1993 after serving as ambassador to Japan and, before that, as the deputy minister for external affairs, and Nick Etheridge, who joined the Department of External Affairs in 1967 and retired in 2002 after serving as high commissioner to Bangladesh and then as director of the Defence Relations Division in Ottawa. The truly exceptional essay in the collection is the one written by Manfred Von Nostitz, who lived in Saigon, Phnom Penh, and Hanoi in 1968-1970 and returned to head the Canadian ICCS delegation in Can Tho in 1973, where he succeeded in establishing probably the most operational of the regional commissions. Prior to 1954, the Canadians had only a small diplomatic service and little East Asian experience. By 1973, nearly a third of all Canadian diplomats had served somewhere in Indochina. Of the dozen young diplomats who contributed to this volume, half went on to become ambassadors, and many of the others played prominent roles in subsequent Canadian politics or in the world of peacekeeping. Their early work not only influenced By 1973, nearly a third of all Canadian diplomats had served somewhere in Indochina. their subsequent diplomatic careers but, more important, the role of Canada in world affairs. n Parker Borg served for more than 30 years in the State Department, including as U.S. ambassador to Mali and Iceland and in senior positions in the Offices of Combating Terrorism (S/CT), International Communications (CIP), and Counternarcotics (INM). Earlier, he served in Vietnam twice: first with Civil Operations and Rural Development Support (CORDS) in 1968-1970 (where he never encountered any Canadians), and second on temporary duty as a cease-fire observer after the Paris Accords in 1973 (where he reported on the work of the Canadians and other members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision, or ICCS).
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