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 ...

KING GEORGE THE FIFTH. HIS LIFE AND REIGN (570 pp.)—Harold Nicolson—Doubleday ($7.50). When the little prince was born, in 1865, his grandmama Victoria wanted his first name to be Frederick ...