In the Midst of Events

Kenneth Younger was the number two man in the Foreign Office during the final period of the Attlee government a crucial point in post-war history. Now his papers have been collected for the first time providing new insight on contemporary events including the Schuman Plan the Korean War German Rearmament the Japanese Peace Treaty and the Abadan Crisis. Younger was an inveterate diarist and here his insights into the grand games of world politics are collected for the first time.