Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Illustrations -- PROLOGUE -- 1 Out of Africa, Amiably, December 1963 -- EARLY YEARS -- 2 The Family in Lossiemouth -- 3 Margaret's Short, Crowded Life, 1870-1912 -- 4 Schooldays at Bedales, 1912-20 -- 5 Oxford Years, 1920-24 -- 6 Three Travelling Tongues, 1924-25 -- 7 Authors and Antilopes, 1925-29 -- PARLIAMENTARY YEARS -- 8 Bassetlaw and Five Elections, 1923-35 -- 9 Learning under Ramsay, 1929-35 -- 10 Palestine: Under Weizmann's Charm, 1922-36 -- 11 Ross and Cromarty - and the Churchills, 1936 -- 12 Bringing Peace to Ireland, 1935-38 -- 13 The Abdication and Dominion Crises, 1936-38 -- 14 Bereavement and Appeasement, 1937-38 -- 15 Moyne, Hailey, and a New View on Colonies, 1935-40 -- 16 Palestine: The Split over Partition, 1938-40 -- 17 In Search of Beauty -- 18 London under Attack -- 19 The Submarine War and Ireland, 1940-41 -- CANADA -- 20 Ottawa, 1941 -- 21 Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crises, 1942-44 -- 22 Balancing the Triangle, 1941-43 -- 23 Twists over "Tube Alloys," 1942-46 -- 24 Birds and Other Pursuits, 1941-45 -- 25 Love on the Ski Slopes, 1946 -- ASIA -- 26 Malaya: Salvaging a Federation, 1946-48 -- 27 Old Attitudes and Closed Clubs, 1947-54 -- 28 The Malayan Emergency, 1948-53 -- 29 Building Trust between Communities, 1948-51 -- 30 Fast Friends -- 31 Borneo People, 1946-56 -- 32 Brunei and Singapore, 1946-55 -- 33 The Colombo Plan and Vietnam, 1948-54 -- 34 Siam, Sihanouk, Sukarno, and Seminars, 1948-55 -- 35 India: Picking Up the Pieces after Suez,1955-60 -- 36 Leading Laos to Neutrality, 1961-62 -- AFRICA AND LATER YEARS -- 37 Kenya: Preparing for Uhuru, 1963-64 -- 38 Rhodesia, South Africa, and Nigeria, 1965-74 -- 39 Bridges to China, 1962-75 -- 40 Years of "Retirement," 1969-81 -- 41 An Assessment: Man and Diplomat -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C.

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