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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.
3 de mar. de 2009 · Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick (born Feb. 22, 1890—died Jan. 1, 1954) 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.
23 de oct. de 2005 · Dishing the dirt - about time too. Duff Cooper's frank and racy diaries are finally out. Robert McCrum on a vivid, fascinating and often distasteful portrait of the early 20th century. 'Keep...
Duff Cooper was a British politician, diplomat, and author, who resigned from the Cabinet over the Munich Agreement and worked for closer ties with France. He wrote biographies of Talleyrand and Haig, and a novel based on Operation Mincemeat.
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’.
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 ...
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 ...
