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LORD PERTH - Mr Eric Drummond as he then was - began his career at the Foreign Office under the rule of Lord Salisbury ; and he imbibed from that ancient master of foreign affairs the tinge of cynical nonchalance which on occasions ...
LORD PERTH - Mr Eric Drummond as he then was - began his career at the Foreign Office under the rule of Lord Salisbury ; and he imbibed from that ancient master of foreign affairs the tinge of cynical nonchalance which on occasions ...
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The British Government was not fortunate in its foreign appointments during the critical years of the 1930's . Room should have been found for Sir Eric Drummond at the Foreign Office , where all his previous experience had been gained .
The British Government was not fortunate in its foreign appointments during the critical years of the 1930's . Room should have been found for Sir Eric Drummond at the Foreign Office , where all his previous experience had been gained .
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To have made Sir Eric Drummond Foreign Secretary would , of course , have been an innovation - though Lord Salisbury had earnestly begged Lord Lyons , then ambas- sador in Paris , to become Foreign Secretary in 1886.
To have made Sir Eric Drummond Foreign Secretary would , of course , have been an innovation - though Lord Salisbury had earnestly begged Lord Lyons , then ambas- sador in Paris , to become Foreign Secretary in 1886.
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 290 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1952 |
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