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Satow's Guide to Diplomatic Practice |
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Satow\'s Guide to Diplomatic Practice
The highly technical manual on diplomacy (sense 1) first written by Sir Ernest Satow and published by Longmans, Green and Company of London in 1917 under the title A Guide to Diplomatic Practice. In 1922 he published a second edition to make corrections to the first and bring the work up to date. However, Satow died in 1929 and the three subsequent editions to appear were each revised by different persons recently retired from the Foreign Office. The third edition (1932) was produced by Hugh Ritchie, formerly a technical assistant in the Treaty Department; the fourth (1957) by Sir Nevile Bland, whose last post was ambassador at The Hague; and the fifth (1979) was revised by Lord Gore-Booth, who was permanent undersecretary at the Foreign Office in the second half of the 1960s. For students of Satow, therefore, the most valuable edition is the second, while for professional diplomats the best one is obviously the most recent, that is the fifth, which has also been translated into Japanese and Chinese. However, two points need to be made about the current edition, the first to bear the title Satow\'s Guide to Diplomatic Practice: (a) the information on which it is based is now at least a quarter of a century old; and (b) while there is still a family resemblance to the early editions written by Satow himself, the massive alterations and the inclusion of whole chapters on institutions and processes which did not even exist in Satow\'s lifetime (such as the UN) make the appropriateness of continuing to attach Satow\'s name to this Guide at least questionable. Though not an official document, and published commercially, it is in effect the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office\'s ‘Guide to Diplomatic Practice’. |
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