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SIR HAROLD NICOLSON describes a delicate diplomatic mission with which he was entrusted on August 4. 1914-the day that war was declared
JOAN RIMMER talks about and plays a medieval instrument-the Psaltery This Was News-10, 15, 20, 25 years ago; including the voices of Somerset Maugham, General de Gaulle. Laurence Housman, Richard Dimbleby , and Commander Thomas Woodrooffe
Edited and introduced by Denys Gueroult