A Diplomat's Handbook of International Law and Practice

It gives me great pleasure to write a foreword to: 1r. Sen's excellent book, and for two reasons in particular. In the first place, in producing it, Mr. Sen has done something vvhich I have long felt needed to be done, and which I at one time had am bitions to do myself. Vhen, over thirty years ago, and after some years of practice at the Bar, I first entered the legal side of the British Foreign Service, I had not been working for long in the Foreign Office before I conceived the idea of ​​writing - or at any rate compiling - a book to which (in my own mind) I gave the title of "A ~ fanual of Foreign Office Law." This work, had I ever produced it in the form in which I visualized it, could probably not have been published consistently with the requirements of official discretion. But this did not worry me as I was only contemplating something for private circulation within the Service and in Government circles. : Mr. Sen's aim has been broader and more public-spirited than mine was; but its basis is essentially the same.