Background
FORD, Robert Arthur Douglass was born on January 8, 1915 in Ottawa. Son of Arthur Rutherford Ford and May Lavinia Scott.
FORD, Robert Arthur Douglass was born on January 8, 1915 in Ottawa. Son of Arthur Rutherford Ford and May Lavinia Scott.
University of Western Ontario and Cornell University.
Instructor, History Department, Cornell University 193940. Department, of External Affairs since 1940, served Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, London 1940-1951. Charge d’Affaires, Moscow 1951-1954.
Head of European Division, Department, of External Affairs 1954-1957. Ambassador to Colombia 1957-1958, to Yugoslavia 1959-1961, to U.A.R. 1961-1963. to USSR 1964-1980. Special Adviser on East-West Relations 1980.
Founder; President Association France-Canada du Bourbonnais. Honorary Doctor of Letters (Western Ontario) 1965. Honorary Doctor of Laws (Toronto) 1987.
Governor-General’s; Professional Institute of Public Service of Canada 1971.
Poetry': A Windowon the North 1956, The Solitary City 1969, Holes in Space 1979, Needle in the Eye 1983, Doors, Words and Silence 1985, Dostoyevsky and Other Poems 1988, Coming from Afar: Selected Poems 1990. Russian Poetry: A Personal Anthology 1984, A Diplomat’s Reflections on The Soviet Union 1989, Diplomate et Poete a Moscou 1990, A Moscow Literary Notebook 1991, and articles on foreign affairs.
Institute Institute of Geopolitics. Palme Commission, on Disarmament and Security Issues.
Married Maria Thereza Gomes in 1946 (died in 1983).