One of Canada’s most significant 20th century diplomats received a promotion on this date in 1962. Saul Rae, a career foreign service officer, was named Ambassador to the United Nations by the Diefenbaker government. Saul’s son, Bob Rae, serves in the same post today.
Saul Rae joined the Department of External Affairs in 1940 and went on to hold a variety of important posts during his distinguished career. He was Ambassador to Mexico, part of the Canadian team at one of the Quebec Conferences held by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt (with Canada’s Mackenzie King as host), twice was Ambassador to the UN, and also served at Canada’s embassy in the United States.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.