After a longand on the whole painful period of readjustment to the changed realities of the world and its own circumstances, Britain is now examining ways of cutting its diplomatic coat according to its financial and influential cloth. In this series of five programmes Peter Jenkins , political columnist of The Guardian, talks to past members of the Foreign and Commonwealth Service and to commentators on foreign policy about what the shape of that coat should be, and how the pattern should be arrived at.
1: Moving into the second rank
Sir Denis GREENHILL. , K.C.M.G.,
Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, talks to PETER JENKINS about the Duncan Report (in which Britain is newly defined as * major power of the second order ') and how its implementation would affect the formulation and execution of our foreign policy.