Lying abroad
Fred Halliday, 21 July 1994
True Brits: Inside the Foreign Office
by Ruth Dudley Edwards.
BBC, 256 pp., £16.99, April 1994,0 563 36955 8 Show More
by Ruth Dudley Edwards.
BBC, 256 pp., £16.99, April 1994,
Mandarin: The Diaries of Nicholas Henderson
by Nicholas Henderson.
Weidenfeld, 517 pp., £20, May 1994,0 297 81433 8 Show More
by Nicholas Henderson.
Weidenfeld, 517 pp., £20, May 1994,
“... was to bring the Pretoria regime to its senses – namely, sanctions. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, in November 1989, the British Government continued for months to insist that it would take a decade or more to achieve German unity – little wonder that some in Bonn observed an uncanny resemblance between the name of our Foreign Secretary and the ... ”