The Foreign Office and its Critics

Plowden Committee on Representational Services Overseas 1962-63, Cmnd. 2276 (London: H.M.S.O., 1964): Duncan Committee on Overseas Representation 1968-69, Cmnd. 4107 (London: H.M.S.O., 1969): Central Policy Review Staff, Review of Overseas Representation , London: H.M.S.O., 1977).

Plowden Committee, op. cit., pp. 2-3.

Duncan Committee, op. cit., p. 23.

CPRS, op. cit., p. 11.

Plowden Committee, op. cit., pp. 86-87: Moorhouse, G. , The Diplomats (London: Jonathan Cape, 1977), pp. 57-61.

C. Hood , The Limits of Administration (London: John Wiley and Sons, 1976), pp. 3-16..

CPRS, op. cit., pp. 3, 344.

C. Curran , "The Think Tank and our Talents," The Listener, February 2, 1978. 9.

Expenditure Committee, 9th Report, 1975-76, Diplomatic Manpower and Property Overseas, HC 604 (London: H.M.S.O., 1976).

For previous developments see M. Partington , " Parliamentary Committees: Recent Developments," Parliamentary Affairs, 23 (4), 1970.

A. Sampson , The New Anatomy of Britain ( London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971 ), pp. 286-302: Moorhouse, op. cit., pp. 24-31.

Ibid.

H. Trevelyan , " Towards a British Rôle in Foreign Affairs ," International Affairs, 54 (2), 1978.

C.J. Makins , " A New Vehicle for Diplomacy," The Guardian, May 9, 1977, p. 7.

Financial Times, August 3, 1977, p. 13.

CPRS, op. cit.

Parliamentary Debates, 5th Series, Commons, Vol. 911, May 19, 1976, cols. 1399-1403.

Financial Times, August 3, 1977, p. 13

The Guardian, August 5, 1977.

The Guardian, January 19, 1978.

Expenditure Committee, 4th Report 1977-78, The CPRS Review of Overseas Representation, Vol. 1, HC 286-1. (London: H.M.S.O., 1978).

The Guardian, April 14, 1978.

The United Kingdom's Overseas Representation, Cmnd. 7308 (London: H.M.S.O., 1978), p. 3.

Ibid., pp. 6-7.

Ibid., pp. 18-20.

W. Wallace ," After Berrill : Whitehall and the Management of British Diplomacy," International Affairs, 54 (2), 1978. pp. 233-235.

Select Committee on Overseas Development, 1st Report, 1977-78: Trade and Aid, Vol. 1, HC 125 (London: H.M.S.O., 1977 ).

Select Committee on Overseas Development , 1st Report, 1977-78: Trade and Aid, Vol. 2, HC 125 (London: H.M.S.O., 1977), p. 123:

Ibid. (Vol. 1.) pp. X-XI, XIX-XXI.

CPRS, op. cit., p. 189.

Select Committee on Overseas Development... , Vol. 1, op. cit, p. XX.

Ibid., p. XXII.

CPRS, op. cit., Chaps. 5 and 6.

Hood, op. cit.

Cprs , op. cit, p. 188: Select Committee on Overseas Development ..., Vol. 1, op. cit, especially pp. XV, XIX.

Ibid., p. XV.

Reportfrom the Select Committee on Cyprus 1975-76, HC 33, ( London: H.M.S.O. 1976): Expenditure Committee, 5th Report, Trade and Industry Sub-Committee, 1977-78, The Fishing Industry, Vol. 1, HC 356 ( London: H.M.S.O., 1978).

Report from the Select Committee on Cyprus, pp. XIII, XVIII, IX.

Ibid., p. X.

See Roy Hattcrsley's evidence to the Committee, pp. 13-15.

See especially The Times leader, September 8, 1975.

Parliamentary Debates, 5th Series, Commons, Vol. 911, 1975-76, May 19, 1976, cols. 1399-1403: Parliamentary Debates, 5th Series, Lords, Vol. 371, 1975-76, June 14-15, 1976, cols. 1052-1089.

Expenditure Committee ... The Fishing Industry, Vol. 1, op. cit., p. 86.

Ibid., p. 65: See also Vol. 2, Minutes of Evidence, Qs. 7892-7916.

Ibid., Chap. 4.

The Guardian, May 5, 1978.

Economist, May 22, 1976, p. 52.

Report from the Select Committee on Cyprus, pp. 58-59.

Select Committee on Overseas Development ... Vol. 1, op, cit., pp. XIV-XIX.

New Statesman, November 10, 1978.

The Guardian, December, 12, 1975, p. 13.

The Guardian, December 2, 1978; Observer, December 3, 1978.

Ibid., June 22, 1978.

Wallace, op. cit., p. 227.

See, for instance, Trevelyan, op. cit.

Makins, op. cit.

Unattributed discussion paper submitted to the BISA Annual Conference 1977. Mimeo.

Observer, January 29, 1978; The Guardian, January 28, 1978.

Report from the Select Committee on Cyprus, pp. IX-X.

Wallace, op. cit., pp. 228-229.

Expenditure Committee, 9th Report, 1975-76, op. cit.; Parliamentary Debates, 5th Series, Commons , Vol. 935 (2) 1976-77, July 22, 1977, col. 733.

Comment made by Moorhouse, op. cit., p. 43.

The United Kingdom's Overseas Representation, p. 11.

Expenditure Committee, 5th Report, 1976-77, Progress Towards Implementation of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. HC 392 (London : H.M.S.O., 1977).

New Statesman, January 12, 1979.