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100			_aWoodhouse, C. M.
245		0	_aBritish foreign policy since the second world war
260			_aLondon
260			_bHutchinson
260			_c1961
300			_a255 p.
520			_aIntentions are sometimes known in part from what ministers said when they did what they did, and also from their later memoirs, such as Sir Anthony Eden's.¹ But they cannot be fully known without access to official sources. I do not share A. J. P. Taylor's view that 'the Foreign Office knows no secrets', because I know it to be untrue from my own experience. In one or two instances where I happen by the accident of government service to have specialized knowledge that is not public, I have suppressed it for the sake of uniformity. This book should there fore be read as based entirely on published sources. It consequently also leaves out of account any consideration of the influence upon foreign policy of permanent officials, though I believe this to be greater than is generally appreciated.
650			_aForeign policy - Great Britain - 1939 - 1945
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