Daphne Park, the Glossary

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1. 64 relations: Allied Commission, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Axis powers, Barbara Craig, BBC, British High Commission, British Library, Catherine Hughes (diplomat), Chargé d'affaires, Chatham House, Cipher, Congo Crisis, Consul (representative), David Lea, Baron Lea of Crondall, Ditchley Foundation, Embassy of the United Kingdom, Moscow, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Hanoi, Hereford and Worcester, Jeff Rooker, Katanga Province, Kinshasa, Life peer, Lusaka, Malawi, Manhattan Project, Mark Allen (businessman), MI6, Monmouth, NameBase, NATO, Newnham College, Cambridge, Nuclear weapon, Nyasaland, Operation Jedburgh, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the British Empire, Patrice Lumumba, Principal (academia), Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), Resistance during World War II, Rosa Bassett School, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Royal Society of Arts, Shinkolobwe, Somerville College, Oxford, Soviet Union, Special Operations Executive, ... Expand index (14 more) »

2. British expatriates in the Soviet Union
3. British women diplomats

Allied Commission

Following the termination of hostilities in World War II, the Allies were in control of the defeated Axis countries.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.

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Barbara Craig

Barbara Denise Craig (née Chapman; 22 October 1915 – 25 January 2005) was a British archaeologist, classicist, and academic, specialising in classical pottery.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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British High Commission

A British High Commission is a British diplomatic mission, equivalent to an embassy, found in countries that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Catherine Hughes (diplomat)

Catherine Eva Hughes (née Pestell; 24 September 1933 – 10 December 2014) was a British diplomat and academic administrator. Daphne Park and Catherine Hughes (diplomat) are members of HM Diplomatic Service.

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Chargé d'affaires

A chargé d'affaires, plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador.

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Chatham House

The Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House, is a British think tank based in London, England.

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Cipher

In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure.

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Congo Crisis

The Congo Crisis (Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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Consul (representative)

A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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David Lea, Baron Lea of Crondall

David Edward Lea, Baron Lea of Crondall, OBE (born 2 November 1937) is a British former trade unionist and Labour politician.

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Ditchley Foundation

The Ditchley Foundation is a foundation that holds conferences, with a primary focus on British-American relations.

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Embassy of the United Kingdom, Moscow

The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in the Russian Federation.

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First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) (FANY (PRVC)) is a British independent all-female registered charity formed in 1907 and active in both nursing and intelligence work during the World Wars. Daphne Park and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry are British women in World War II.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Hanoi

Hanoi (Hà Nội) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.

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Hereford and Worcester

Hereford and Worcester was an English non-metropolitan county created on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 from the areas of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire (except Halesowen, Stourbridge and Warley, which became part of the West Midlands) and the county borough of Worcester.

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Jeff Rooker

Jeffrey William Rooker, Baron Rooker (born 5 June 1941) is a British politician and life peer who served as a government minister from 1997 to 2008.

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Katanga Province

Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.

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Kinshasa

Kinshasa (Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until June 30, 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Life peer

In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.

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Lusaka

Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia.

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Malawi

Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.

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Mark Allen (businessman)

Sir Mark John Spurgeon Allen KCMG (born 3 July 1950) is a British diplomat, intelligence officer, and businessman.

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MI6

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.

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Monmouth

Monmouth (Trefynwy; meaning "town on the Monnow") is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, situated on where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, from the Wales–England border.

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NameBase

NameBase is a web-based cross-indexed database of names that focuses on individuals involved in the international intelligence community, U.S. foreign policy, crime, and business.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Nyasaland

Nyasaland was a British protectorate located in Africa that was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name.

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Operation Jedburgh

Operation Jedburgh was a clandestine operation during World War II in which three-man teams of operatives of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the Free French Bureau central de renseignements et d'action ("Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations") and the Dutch and Belgian armies in exile were dropped by parachute into occupied France, the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince of Wales (the future King George IV), while he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961), born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa, was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following the May 1960 election.

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Principal (academia)

The principal is the chief executive and the chief academic officer of a university or college in certain parts of the Commonwealth.

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Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)

The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo) was a sovereign state in Central Africa, created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960.

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Resistance during World War II

During World War II, resistance movements operated in German-occupied Europe by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda, hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns.

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Rosa Bassett School

Rosa Bassett School was a grammar school for girls in South London.

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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society, was established, according to its royal charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level.

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Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England

The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) was a government advisory body responsible for documenting buildings and monuments of archaeological, architectural and historical importance in England.

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Royal Society of Arts

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, commonly known as the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), is a London-based organisation.

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Shinkolobwe

Shinkolobwe, or Kasolo, or Chinkolobew, or Shainkolobwe, was a radium and uranium mine in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), located west of Likasi (formerly Jadotville), south of Kambove, and about northwest of Lubumbashi.

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Somerville College, Oxford

Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II.

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Streatham

Streatham is a district in south London, England.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Susan Williams (historian)

Susan Williams is a historian and author, based in London.

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Tanganyika Territory

Tanganyika was a colonial territory in East Africa which was administered by the United Kingdom in various guises from 1916 until 1961.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar (Улаанбаатар,, "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia.

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University of Kent

The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury, abbreviated as UKC) is a semi-collegiate public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

British expatriates in the Soviet Union

• Alan Woods (political theorist)
• Alaric Jacob
• Anthony Courtney
• Arthur Robert Hone
• Daphne Park
• Dave Springhall
• Erik de Mauny
• Freda Utley
• Gareth Jones (journalist)
• Geoffrey Bennett (historian)
• Gervase Cowell
• Greville Wynne
• Herbert Marshall (writer)
• Hugh Lunghi
• Iris Morley
• Janet Chisholm
• Jessie Eden
• John Miller (journalist and author)
• John Vassall
• Philip de Zulueta
• R. Palme Dutt
• Rose Cohen
• Sally Belfrage
• Tony Hoare
• Walter Duranty

British women diplomats

• Audrey Glover
• Barbara Salt
• Carma Elliot
• Caroline Wilson (diplomat)
• Catherine Ashton
• Cicely Mayhew
• Clara Grace Thornton
• Daphne Park
• Karen Fogg
• Kate Smith (diplomat)
• Lorna Arnold
• Lucile Sayers
• Margaret Beckett
• Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale
• Monica Milne
• Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Park

Also known as Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Margaret Sybil Desiree Park, Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth, Lady Park of Monmouth.

, Streatham, Surrey, Susan Williams (historian), Tanganyika Territory, Tanzania, The Daily Telegraph, The Right Honourable, The Washington Post, Ulaanbaatar, University of Kent, University of Oxford, Uranium, Vienna, World War II.