Alexander Cadogan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Cadogan

British diplomat

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1884

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 09-Jul-1968

Profession: diplomat

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sir Alexander Montagu George Cadogan (25 November 1884 – 9 July 1968) was a British diplomat and civil servant.
He was Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1938 to 1946.
His long tenure of the Permanent Secretary's office makes him one of the central figures of British policy before and during the Second World War.
His diaries are a source of great value and give a sharp sense of the man and his life.
Like most senior officials at the Foreign Office, he was bitterly critical of the appeasement policies of the 1930s but admitted that until British rearmament was better advanced, there were few other options.
In particular, he stressed that without an American commitment to joint defence against Japan, Britain would be torn between the eastern and western spheres.
Conflict with Germany would automatically expose Britain's Asian Empire to Japanese aggression.

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Work period	between 1909 and 1937 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1937-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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