Diplomatic Passport : More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1946-1962 (9781551996790)

by Ritchie, Charles

  1 At this point Canadian Ambassador to Washington.

  2 A. E. Ritchie was to succeed me as Canadian Ambassador to the United States and was subsequently Un der-Secretary of State for External Affairs.

  3 Viscount Hood, then British Minister in Washington.

  1 Then Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs; subsequently Canadian Ambassador to France and Governor General of Canada.

  1 Daughter of J. P. Morgan, the banker.

  2 Officer of the Department of External Affairs.

  1 Jetty Robertson, wife of Norman A. Robertson.

  2 Formally senior official at Canada House, London.

  1 Sir William Stephenson was Director of British Security Co-ordination in the Western Hemisphere, 1940-46, and subject of The Quiet Canadian.

  1 Sir Harold Beeley, then Deputy U.K. Representative to the U.N., later Ambassador to Egypt; Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, formerly British Ambassador to Egypt, then Under-Secretary at the U.N., later Lord Trevelyan.

  1 Hon. Alastair Buchan, journalist and author, and the son of John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir. He was Director of the Institute of Strategic Studies.

  1 Norman A. Robertson had returned from Washington and was now Undersecretary of State for External Affairs.

  1 Canadian novelist.

  1 Stuart Hampshire, the British philosopher, had published Thought in Action in 1959.

  1 Mr. Diefenbaker.

  1 Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, later the Hon. Lady Lindsay of Dowhill.

  1 Sir Patrick Dean, then Permanent Representative of the U.K. to the United Nations; later British Ambassador to the United States.

  1 The Duke and Duchess of San Miniato. The Duchess is Canadian by birth.

  2 Well-known Washington hostess of the period.