The best, and best written, book in English on the practice of diplomacy is by the late British diplomat (or as he would have ...

DWIGHT MORROW—Harold Nicolson— Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). Biographies by Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine; Swinburne; Curzon) have been characterized by careful scholarship, an almost ostentatious ...

HAROLD NICOLSON : THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945, VOL. II OF DIARIES AND LETTERS. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. 511 pages. Atheneum. $8.50. “One should write one’s diary for one’s great-grandson ...

DIPLOMACY—Harold Nicolson—Harcourt, Brace ($2). Intriguing European diplomats have long regarded their phlegmatic British rivals as men of diabolic cunning. They compress their admiration and ...

In 1919 the experienced British diplomat Harold Nicolson had called it “the ghost at all our feasts.” This curious and lopsided diplomatic story has attracted the attention of columnist and ...