Viscount Edgar Vincent D'abernon
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Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, (19 August 1857 – 1 November 1941) was one of the foremost interwar British politicians, also a diplomat, art collector and author. He was appointed ambassador to Germany between 1920 and 1925 and was a leading figure in rehabilitating Germany and subsequently championing the policy of appeasement.
Contains 24 appreciations of people: The Earl of Cromer, The Marquess Curzon, D. Lloyd George, The Earl of Balfour,...
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After the cataclysmic events of the First World War officially ended on the Western Front in 1918, the Democratic Western Powers were still faced with the fallout of the struggle for power in Russia. There was a very real chance that the Communist contagion would transfer across the borders of Russia to Eastern Europe, as it would do some two decades later. Viscount Edgar Vincent D'Abernon was head of the Interallied Mission to Poland and was eye-witness...