ASIN: B00HNGT5KU
Publisher: Oldwicks Press Limited
Pages: 254
Embassy life Moscow and Bangkok 1949-52.Nothing could ever be quite the same as working in post-war Moscow and pre-tourist Bangkok in the early 1950s – a period now epitomised as ‘The Forgotten Decade’.After the hardship of the 1930s, the Second World War and the austerity of post-war Britain, it was exciting to be young in the more prosperous though socially still rather starchy 1950s. When Harold Macmillan told us at the 1959 election that ‘You’ve never had it so good’, we agreed. Jean Floyd was 22 when the Foreign Office sent her for secretarial duties to the British Embassy in Moscow in 1949, shortly after the beginning of the Cold War. It was a time when the outbreak of World War III was regarded as a serious possibility, especially after the start of the Korean War in 1950. The use of atomic bombs was not being ruled out. The wartime camaraderie with ‘our brave Russian allies’ had ...
