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...Diplomacy, by Harold Nicolson...
...article for Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Harold Nicolson discussed the delicate problem of writing tasteful but truthful obituary notices of well-known lusty characters. The English necrologists, he said, have developed a special technique: "To tell the truth by denying its opposite." For example, it was said of the late novelist Norman Douglas: "His worst enemy could not have accused him of being either a hypocrite or a puritan." The past master of this art, Nicolson decided, was Sir Sidney Lee, author of the official biography of King Edward VII, who loved to eat his royal meals...
...System Is a System. But it was not small talk and tiny deeds that made British diplomacy so successful. In a recent speech, Harold Nicolson, a scholarly ex-veteran of the Foreign Office, got to the point. "Continental critics and admirers," he said, "are united in the awe with which they regard the skill, persistence and flexibility that our diplomatists . . . have manifested in extracting advantage from the passions of less dispassionate countries...
...Inverchapel Blast) filled with blurbs from such notables as Journalist Barbara (the Economist) Ward, the King's physician, U.S. General George C. Marshall ("Inverchapel is a leader among peace-loving people . . .") and General Dwight D. Eisenhower ("I am delighted ... Lord Inverchapel. . . friendly relations . . ."). From London came Author Harold Nicolson to speak for him (candidates themselves never appear). Deadpan and in piping voice, Nicolson began: "Lord Inverchapel is extraordinarily unconventional . . ." Students burst into shouts of "at his age" and "whooooo...
...They had no inkling that prostrate on the floor in the back seat lay the real general, with guns pointed at his head. Twenty days later, on May 16, 1944, kidnaped Major General Karl Kreipe was handed over to British authorities in Cairo, putting finis to what Harold Nicolson has called "one of the best adventure stories that I have read...