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SUMMARY:FCDOA Online talk by Lord Peter Ricketts: Peace Makers: Shaping the Modern World: The Men and Women of the Foreign Office in the Second World War
DESCRIPTION:FCDOA Online talk \nby Lord Peter Ricketts\nPeace Makers: Shaping the Modern World: The Men and Women of the Foreign Office in the Second World War\non Tuesday 15 September at 11.00 am BST\n \nOn Zoom \nModerated by Dr Richard Smith\, FCDO Historian \nAdmission free \n\nThe Foreign Office is the Cinderella in Britain’s national story of the Second World War\, dominated by Churchill\, the epic battles and the clandestine world of the spies. Peace Makers celebrates the largely unknown story of the men and women who served in the Foreign Office in London and in Embassies around the world. \nIn London\, the policymakers and their support staff laboured through blitz and blackout\, advising ministers on issues of national survival while spending their nights on the roofs watching for incendiary bombs or patrolling the corridors with fixed bayonets on home guard duty. From early in the war\, a group led by Gladwyn Jebb were thinking ahead to the future peace\, drawing up blueprints for what became the UN and NATO and ensuring in the process a leading role for Britain in the post-war international order. \nBritish Embassies were vital to the war effort. They oversaw evacuations\, competed with Nazi agents for influence in the neutral states\, supported refugees\, organised escape lines for allied PoWs and nurtured relations with allies. \nThe War also changed the Foreign Office. A number of women proved to be highly effective at promoting British interests in tough places abroad. Their achievements helped sweep away the barriers which had kept women out of the senior ranks of the Foreign Office\, and which were jettisoned in 1945. The book includes for the first time the recollections of some of the many young women who joined the Foreign Office during the war. I had the great privilege of interviewing one lady in her 100th year who had been a secretary in Eden’s Private Office and travelled with him to Yalta and San Francisco in 1945. \nThe peace makers were a remarkable generation. This book aims to tell their story. \n  \n 
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