Person
Alexander Cadogan
Sir Alexander Montagu George Cadogan was a British diplomat and civil servant. He was Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1938 to 1946. His long tenure of the Permanent Secretary's office makes him one of the central figures of British policy before and during the Second World War. His diaries are a source of great value and give a sharp sense of the man and his life. Like most senior officials at the Foreign Office, he was bitterly critical of the appeasement policies of the 1930s but admitted that until British rearmament was better advanced, there were few other options. In p…
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- 1884-11-25
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Postings
| Office | Representing | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, New York | United Kingdom | 1946 | 1951 |
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