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100			_aMoorhouse, Geoffrey
245		0	_aDiplomats: the foreign office today
260			_aLondon
260			_bJonathan Cape
260			_c1977
300			_a405 p.
520			_aThis is a peculiar book, in that it has been written with a great deal of help from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office without in any sense having been sponsored by it. Author would not, indeed, have accepted his publisher's invitation to tackle the subject on any other terms. He was informed by the FCO, when he began his research in 1974, that he would be subject to the provisions of the thirty-years rule like anybody else, but that otherwise he was free to conduct whatever investigation he wanted, and that as much assistance as possible would be given. The FCO was true to its word. This is not to say that everybody he talked to in the next couple of years (and the number approached 400 by the time I had done) was equally helpful. Some diplomats were evasive, and a comparative handful made it plain that they thought I was poking my nose where it had no business to be.
650			_aInternational relations
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