Foreign Office

EL spent six weeks in Constantinople with her sister and her husband , who was on a political mission for the Foreign Office .

This book was reprinted as no. 6 in Chatto's Landmark Library series in 1968 and again by Virago in 1985. The travel element remained constant (blended with romance or spying) as AB followed her husband's...

Production was arranged at Birmingham Repertory Theatre under Sir Barry Jackson , when the Lord Chamberlain's office banned the play. The Foreign Office , MJ learned, thought it most undesirable that anything humorous should be...

In Permission to Resign,: Goings-on in the Corridors of Power, Ann Bridge provided an account of her husband 's forced resignation from the Foreign Office in 1928 and the successful campaign to re-instate him.

While working for the Foreign Office (Political Intelligence Department ), AW edited a thirty-page, illustrated leaflet, Accord, which was produced every month to be dropped from planes over occupied France.

Julia's husband, Philip, has died in mysterious circumstances in Soviet Central Asia (possibly Afghanistan), a place of stray bullets and booby-traps, while on a mission for the British Intelligence Service (a branch of the...

After AB 's husband retired from the Foreign Office they settled, not at first in England but in Ireland: at Rockfleet Castle in Mayo, which they had bought as only a Regency ruin in 1938.

A British Foreign Office official warned that what he called the uniform unpleasantness of the Spanish characters (which was news to her: was he responding to the fact that people behave badly in extreme circumstances?)...

He had been offered either Teheran or Peking (now Beijing). He resigned from his Foreign Office employment in the summer of 1929 in favour of the editorship of the London Evening Standard. Later...

Mary Sanders (later AB ) married Owen O'Malley (a member of the British Foreign Office and as he put it himself an autocthonous Irishman, later knighted) at St Mark's Church...

This was three months after the annulment of AW 's first marriage came through. Eric had a job with the Foreign Office . They were married for five years, successfully, without any sexual...

In 1928 Owen O'Malley , with other members of the foreign service, was accused of speculating in francs: what became known as the francs case. His Times obituary suggested that he would have been...

During these years, beginning in the Second World War, she worked in the Ministry of Information (where she became head of the American section), the Committee of Ministers for Reconstruction (from spring 1941), the Ministry...

MS began on a top-secret job: writing anti-Nazi propaganda for MI6 , the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office .

After her intelligence work came a succession of temporary office jobs: for a different branch of the Foreign Office , for a tea company, and for the American Red Cross .