The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

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Peele, Gillian "St George's and the Empire Crusade" in Cook, Chris and Ramsden, John (Eds) By-elections in British politics (UCL Press, 1997) Diana herself had revealed that although she was brought up as a daughter of the eighth Duke of Rutland, she was actually fathered by Harry Cust, a Lincolnshire landowner and Member of Parliament (MP). I had been glad when Eden had become Foreign Secretary and I had always given him my support in Cabinet when he needed it. I believed that he was fundamentally right on all the main problems of foreign policy, that he fully understood how serious was the German menace and how hopeless the policy of appeasement. Not being, however, a member of the Foreign Policy Committee, I was ignorant of how deep the cleavage of opinion between him and the Prime Minister had become. It is much to his credit that he abstained from all lobbying of opinion and sought to gain no adherents either in the Cabinet or the House of Commons.

In 1948 he was awarded GCMG and, in July 1952, elevated to the peerage as 1st Viscount Norwich. He died in January 1954 and was succeeded by his son, John Julius. Extent In December 1943 he was appointed British Representative to the Free French Committee of National Liberation, then based in Algiers, on the understanding that when France was liberated he would become Ambassador to Paris. Part of his work in Algiers was to maintain a working relationship between Churchill and de Gaulle, which Duff likened to being ground between two mill stones. He took up his post as Ambassador to Paris in August 1944. The capital had been liberated, but much of France was still occupied. Following the deaths at relatively young ages of Asquith, Horner, Shaw-Stewart, and Anson—the first three in the war; Anson by drowning—Lady Diana married Cooper, one of her circle of friends’ last surviving male members, in June 1919. Seventy-five years ago today, on 13 September 1944, a Dakota aircraft, with an escort of 45 Spitfires, flew across the English Channel towards Paris. The plane carried the new British Ambassador to France, Alfred ‘Duff’ Cooper. The liberation of Paris from German occupation in August 1944 meant a chance to reopen the British Embassy which had been closed since June 1940. With the provisional government of General Charles de Gaulle now in the French capital, it was a priority for the British to re-establish a presence in the city. The new AmbassadorTurning to literature, he produced Talleyrand (1932), a short biography that was published by his nephew Rupert Hart-Davis to critical praise and lasting success. [7] The 1931 by-election for the constituency of UK Parliament constituency saw the Empire Free Trade Crusade party threatening the Conservative position at a time when satisfaction with Baldwin's leadership was at a low. When the original Conservative candidate stepped down, Duff Cooper agreed to contest the election in what was regarded as a referendum on Baldwin's leadership. He won the seat with a majority of 5,710, thus returning to Parliament and serving until 1945. [8] Začal se tedy věnovat literatuře a napsal životopisnou knihu Talleyrand(1932), za kterou si vysloužil chválu kritiky a zajistil si trvalý autorský úspěch. [11]V roce 1937 vyšla i v českém překladu Josefa Hrůši v nakladatelství J. R. Vilímka. V roce 1931 se po odstoupení původního kandidáta utkal znovu o místo poslance ve volbách a vrátil se do Parlamentu, ve kterém pak zasedal až do roku 1945. [12] Schillinger, Liesl (11 November 2012). "Susan Mary Alsop: A Two-Continent Hostess". The New York Times . Retrieved 1 September 2018.

Philip Ziegler Diana Cooper: The Biography of Lady Diana Cooper (Hamish Hamilton, 1981, ISBN 978-0-241-10659-4), pp 271-2 Ziegler, Philip (January 2008). "Cooper, (Alfred) Duff, first Viscount Norwich (1890–1954)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press . http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32547 . Retrieved 11 December 2008. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

a b c d Robert Gottlieb (7 August 2015). "The life of Lady Diana Cooper: 'the most beautiful girl in the world' ". Financial Review . Retrieved 2 September 2020.