- Research Article
- 10.1023/a:1008946717852
Lloyd George, Lenin and Cannibals: The Harriman Arbitration: The 1999 Freshfields Lecture
- Jan 01, 2000
- Arbitration International
- V.v Veeder
OVER 35 years ago, on a warm summer's evening on 26 July 1963, two elderly men walked across the Kremlin Square towards the Terem Palace. The shorter man was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Nikita Khrushchev. The second man was tall, looking like the millionaire son of a millionaire, which was what he was. He had served as the American ambassador to Moscow and London; and he had worked as a personal adviser to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and now, President Kennedy. He had also been elected Governor of New York and had been a candidate for his party's nomination for President. An Anglophile, he had been a supporter and friend of Winston Churchill in London during the darkest days of the Second World War, a good friend of his son Randolph; and as it proved,...
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