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Commercial Diplomatic Service

The British service created at the end of the First World War and jointly administered by the Foreign Office and the newly created Department of Overseas Trade. It developed from the growing corps of commercial attachÃ©s and soon saw the appointment to diplomatic missions of its own staff with its own ranks: commercial counsellors and commercial secretaries. In 1943 it was absorbed by the new, unified Foreign Service, though until 1965 trade commissioners were still posted abroad by the Board of Trade as part of the Trade Commissioner Service. See also Diplomatic Service, British.

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