Disappearing Ink
Tom Stevenson: Life of a Diplomat, 10 August 2023
And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy
by Catherine Ashton.
Elliott and Thompson, 256 pp., £20, February,978 1 78396 634 9 Show More
by Catherine Ashton.
Elliott and Thompson, 256 pp., £20, February,
“... touch. The British diplomatic records – pink telegrams from the Foreign Office to its outposts, white ones sent to London from missions abroad – are full of entertaining examples. John Russell’s 1967 dispatch from Brazil begins: ‘Like the surface of the moon Rio is short of water, covered in dust and pocked with deep holes.’ American diplomats wrote ... ”