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Douglas H. Cooper

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    • The press portrayed him as a spin doctor and as an enemy of a free press. He authorised a strong denunciation of the author PG Wodehouse for making an ill-advised humorous broadcast from Berlin. In July he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , to his relief.

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    He was sent to Singapore as Minister Resident. He had authority to form a War Cabinet there, but both military and civil authorities were reluctant to cooperate with him. Eighteen months of underemployment followed. He chaired the Cabinet Committee on Security. He did a lot of writing and spent his weekends at Bognor where his wife had a smallholding.

    His remit included maintaining a working relationship between Churchill and de Gaulle, two men whom he found equally difficult. Paris was liberated in August and he moved there in September. On 18 November he formally presented his credentials as British Ambassador to France. He was to prove a very popular ambassador, with Lady Diana helping to make his term of office a great social success. Some contemporary eyebrows were raised at his willingness to entertain people with dubious records during the recent war, or his lack of interest at entertaining trade unionists.

    Cooper was in the words of the British historian P. Bell such a "devoted Francophile" that during his time as ambassador to Paris that he often tried the patience of the Foreign Office by going well beyond his instructions to maintain good relations with France by trying to create an Anglo-French alliance that would dominate post-war Europe.

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    Despite being a Conservative, Cooper was not replaced as Ambassador when Labour won the election as Ernest Bevin , the new Foreign Secretary valued an ambassador who was close friends with so many French politicians and even managed to have a friendship of sorts with the famously Anglophobic Charles de Gaulle. In January , Cooper acting without orders began the process that led to the Treaty of Dunkirk when he suggested to the French Premier Leon Blum that there should an Anglo-French military alliance, an idea Blum took up thinking this was an offer from London.

    His term as ambassador ended at the end of He bequeathed a large part of his library to the British Embassy in Paris. Duff Cooper was married to Lady Diana Manners from to his death. Cooper's only legitimate child, John Julius Norwich — , whose godfather was Lord Beaverbrook , [43] became well known as a writer and television host. The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper, — Duff Cooper's niece Enid Levita daughter of his sister Stephanie , is the paternal grandmother of the Conservative Party leader David Cameron , who served as Prime Minister from — Cooper was raised to GCMG in He took on some company directorships, including that of the Wagons-Lits company, but essentially devoted the rest of his life to writing.

    The Cabinet Office tried in vain, on security grounds, to block publication of his only novel, Operation Heartbreak , as it was based on a real incident during the war.

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    The book has recently been republished by Persephone Books. He was created Viscount Norwich , of Aldwick in the County of Sussex , in , in recognition of his political and literary career. Cooper's sixth and final book was his acclaimed memoirs, Old Men Forget , which appeared on 5 July Cooper suffered a dangerous haemorrhage in May On 1 January he was on board the French liner Colombie when he died suddenly aged He was with his wife on a voyage to Jamaica to stay with friends.

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    The ship docked at the Spanish port of Vigo so his body could be flown back to Britain. Cooper was the subject of a biography by John Charmley He could be short-tempered and self-indulgent, and devoted far too much time and energy to wine, women and gambling. Wells , in The Shape of Things to Come , published in , predicted a Second World War in which Britain would not participate but would vainly try to effect a peaceful compromise.

    In this vision, Duff Cooper was mentioned as one of several prominent Britons delivering "brilliant pacific speeches" which "echo throughout Europe" but fail to end the war; the other would-be peacemakers, in Wells' vision, included Leslie Hore Belisha , Ellen Wilkinson and Randolph Churchill.

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    Unlike Churchill and Eden, Cooper was not offered a job on the outbreak of war in September He went on a lecture. With the outbreak of the Civil War in , Cooper pledged his In May, Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker sent Cooper a letter.

    Lady Diana Manners — The Canadians slept on top when an air alert was on. The Canadians were so nice. They kept having tattoos and I could see it made them ill. The American MPs kept coming around to our house and searching it for stolen goods. The Canadians used to hide most of it under our coal bunker.

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    All were widely read on both sides of the Atlantic, though The Bravo was a critical failure in the United States. The book has recently been republished by Persephone Books. He spent six months at the front in the Guards, where he proved himself to be both brave and a natural leader. Along with the warrant was a copy of naval rules and regulations, a description of the required naval uniform, along with an oath that Cooper was to sign in front of a witness and to be returned with his letter of acceptance. James Russell Lowell , Cooper's contemporary and a critic, referred to it poetically in A Fable for Critics , writing, "

    So when the Americans came round in the jeep with "MPs" on its side, they never found anything. It upset my mother, because the Americans were not very nice people. I had the impression the Canadians thought he Americans were fair game for anything. It's good that we had metal gutters to catch the rain because the shrapnel used to rain down every night. The houses opposite us had an orchard over the back of them and it used to catch fire every so often. One day we saw a dog fight in the sky and a German plane was shot down and it landed up in the orchard — which caught fire again.

    A Home Guard captured a flying officer of the Third Reich. What a day that was! The Germans had tried to find out the location of Hanworth Aerodrome. It was rumoured they were building aircraft, which they were. My mother was a supervisor making and covering the wings for the gliders for Arnhem.

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    My sister was 10 years older than me so she had to look after me until my mother came home at night. My grandmother went and had a word with a high-up officer to collect her and return her home to look after us. The days we stayed with our grandmother it was bombs, bombs, and bombs every night. One day we had to go down in the cellar because the raids were so bad.

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    We had bunk beds. The firemen used so much water one night that we were floating. Half the houses in the road in Hackney had been on fire. The person who lived next door in Beech Way, Mr Watson, had been torpedoed three times, on three different ships.