Image by misterbisson via Flickr"Stereotyping diplomacy is very easy to do. We suffer from it enormously and we haven’t found any very effective response. There was a case the other day, about travel advice, in the light of recent sad events in the Yemen and Uganda, where a spokesman for the Travel Agents Association or something says - the Foreign Office travel people are bow-tied ex-Oxford types - if anything could be further from the truth I can’t imagine but that is the stereotype she wanted to portray because she feels that strikes a chord particularly in the tabloids and perhaps more generally across British public opinion."
Sir David Gore-Booth
Former British Ambassador to India
British Diplomatic Oral History Project | 1999 Former British Ambassador to India
David Alwyn Gore-Booth, diplomat and banker (1943- 2004)
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