Sir Alexander Cadogan was the Foreign Office's permanent under-secretary and an unusually well-informed figure across government. His diaries are recommended as a useful source, though some passages require reading between the lines because relevant information was published later. He chaired the BBC board from 1952 to 1957. Churchill reportedly told him that the job required fairness and sense, a remark that links his wartime administration with his later public service.
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Alexander Cadogan's diaries and later BBC service
Cadogan's place in the delegation opens a useful route into Foreign Office records and his later chairmanship of the BBC.