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Mentioned in Despatches. Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick was a British politician. He served as a Conservative in Parliament (1924–29 and 1931–45). After a stint as secretary of state for war (1935–37), he became first lord of the Admiralty (1937) but resigned to protest the Munich agreement.
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (1890 – 1954) was a politician, diplomat, and author, whose courage in resigning from Cabinet over the Munich Agreement and consistency in working for closer diplomatic ties with France were complemented by his skill as a historian and his talent for friendship. Background and education.
10 de ene. de 2021 · Duff Cooper strongly disagreed, but the argument retained a firm hold on the Foreign Office. Before he left London, Prime Minister Chamberlain sent his parliamentary private secretary to strongly impress on him the need to ‘abstain from anything that might be considered British propaganda’.
1 de dic. de 2007 · An insouciant rake, recognized—like the subject of his most famous book—for his charm, sparkling conversation, and extraordinary smoothness with women, Duff Cooper (1890–1954) aspired to ...
56 Duff Cooper and Western European union, 1944-47 could not afford to imitate such an attitude. The main danger to that balance was, he went on to argue, the Soviet Union. He did not base his case on sterile anti-bolshevism, although he noted that the ideology of communism gave the Russians a potential fifth column in every western European ...
After his resignation in protest against the Munich agreement, Cooper spent his time fostering the idea of an Anglo-French alliance as the corner-stone of a European combination against Hitler's Germany.
