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Everything irons out in the end. The wrong people get the credit, no one lives perfectly happy ever after: that, Author Nicolson implies, is the world's way. England, diplomacy, good intentions have somehow muddled through again...
PUBLIC FACES-Harold Nicolson-Houghton Mifflin...
Five years ago, Harold Nicolson wrote a good book with a bad title (Some People). Public Faces is another such-a more ingenious and less amusing satire on the dignified, dangerous asininities of diplomacy and also a book that deserves a better name. Author Nicolson retails his solemn state secrets as one having had authority. Onetime diplomatist for Britain, he resigned before yielding to the temptation to be indiscreet...
Frank Walter Nicolson, dean of Wesleyan University L.H.D...
...Author. Harold Nicolson (44), third and youngest son of Sir Arthur, grew up in the diplomatic atmosphere of foreign legations, entered the Foreign Office in 1909, later served in Embassies at Madrid and Constantinople. He married (1913) Authoress Victoria Sackville-West (TIME, Sept. 1). They have two sons. Egregious among present biographers, historians, he has a style polite, accurate, ironic, never loud. Viz: "Mr. Henry White, the United States representative was conciliatory, ignorant and charming...