Sir Nicholas Henderson
March 16, 2009 by David Torrance
News just in that Sir Nicholas Henderson, the UK’s former ambassador to the United States, has died aged 89. He was ambassador to France when, in 1979, his valedictory memo (‘Britain’s Decline; Its Causes and Consequences’) was leaked to the press, who seized upon the line about Britain being ‘the sick man of Europe’. The full report was declassified in 2006 and can be read at the Margaret Thatcher Foundation website.
The Daily Telegraph, quick off the mark as ever, also has an obituary online.
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