In the Midst of Events: The Foreign Office Diaries and Papers of Kenneth Younger, February 1950-October 1951Geoffrey Warner Kenneth Younger was the number two man in the Foreign Office during the final period of the Attlee government, a crucial point in post-war history. Now, his papers have been collected for the first time, providing new insight on contemporary events including the Schuman Plan, the Korean War, German Rearmament, the Japanese Peace Treaty and the Abadan Crisis. Younger was an inveterate diarist, and here his insights into the grand games of world politics are collected for the first time. |
Contents
To the Foreign Office FebruaryAugust 1950 | 7 |
The United Nations SeptemberDecember 1950 | 33 |
From Bevin to Morrison JanuaryMarch 1951 | 52 |
The end of the Labour government AprilOctober 1951 | 72 |
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