The Sword and the Olive : Recollections of Diplomacy and the Foreign Service 1913 - 1954.

Rendel, Sir George William, KCMC (1889-1979). - Rendel, George

Verlag: London, John Murray., 1957

8° (22x14), (xi), 348 p., with 12 illustrations on plated, publisher's hardbound blue cloth with pictorial jacket, tight and clean, well cared, provenance: library of Altshausen Castle with handwritten dedication to Princess Eudoxia, dauther of the last tsar of Bulgaria, Ferdinand I, and signed by the author himself: 'To Her 'Royal Highness / Princess Eudoxie / these recollections, which / include so many happy / and some critical days in / Bulgaria, are respectfully / inscribed by the author / George Rendel / 25.8.76' Rendel entered the Diplomatic Service and was the head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938.- In 1922 he produced a seven-page British Foreign Office document which detailed the persecution of Greeks and other minorities in the Ottoman Empire. The document drew on official reports and eyewitness testimonies by personnel who were present. Rendel stated that throughout the First World War, 'it is generally agreed that about 1,500,000 Armenians perished in circumstances of extreme barbarity, and that over 500,000 Greeks were deported, of whom comparatively few survived'.] He then went on to describe further massacres and deportations of Greeks in the period after the Armistice. In 1937 he and his wife Geraldine crossed Arabia. Geraldine was the first European woman to be received for dinner at the royal palace in Riyadh. Rendel was His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria, but the United Kingdom broke off diplomatic relations as the country became under the control of the Nazis. It fell to Rendel to take his staff of 50 by train to Istanbul, Turkey. His party was caught in a huge bomb explosion at the Pera Palace Hotel. Rendel was upstairs when the bomb in the baggage room exploded with devastating consequences. His daughter Ann, then 21 and acting as Legation Hostess, was knocked down and slightly injured. In all, there were four deaths and 30 injured. It was later claimed by the Germans that various bombs had been placed in the Legation's luggage before it had left Sofia. In 1941, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a post held until 1943.[4] He was knighted in the latter year and served as Ambassador to Belgium between 1947 and 1950. Sprache: Englisch. * * * * --- due to EPR-Restrictions NO SHIPPING to Bulgaria, Danmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia and Spain --- * * * *. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 55580AB

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Titel: The Sword and the Olive : Recollections of ...
Verlag: London, John Murray.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1957
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers