Diplomatic intrigue and speculation

24th March 1941:The Soviet Ambassador to Britain gets a revealing insight into American and Greek attitudes to the growing war

British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky.

Ivan Maisky was the Soviet Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1943. His diaries¹, first published in 2015, were a revelation to many, a record of the extraordinary access that he gained to not only many senior British politicians, including Churchill, but to many Foreign…