The Mist Procession: The Autobiography of Lord VansittartHutchinson, 1958
“A sure way of seeing ahead is to look back.” A cliché, perhaps, yet coming from a memoir by Lord Robert S. Vansittart, top British diplomat and resolute anti-appeaser of Hitler, it carries a powerful message. Principal Private Secretary at Number Ten from 1928 to 1930 and head of the Foreign Office till the eve of war, then Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the government, his book The Mist Procession, published in 1958, has a lot to tell us not just about the 1930s but about the world today.The title refers to an …read more
Source: The American Interest
