This second volume of the author's memoirs deals with his youth in Halifax and his career at Oxford -- the years when Charles Ritchie turned from a callow, blundering youth into a callow, blundering young man.
In his first book, The Siren Years, the public was introduced to Charles Ritchie as a young diplomat serving with the Canadian Embassy in wartime London. In Diplomatic Passport, we follow his career as he climbs the rungs of the diplomatic-service ladder ' as an advisor to the C…
In the fourth volume of selections from his delightfully wise and witty diaries, we see Charles Ritchie, the seasoned (but never stuffy) diplomat, in his last two major postings -- as Canadian Ambassador to Washington and as Canadian High Commissioner to London. Full of anecdote…