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Article: Pitfalls of 'recognition'.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1984
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PITFALLS OF 'RECOGNITION'
RIGHT NOW, London is a good place to be if the day's good resolution is to write a column on the perils, hypocrisies, and absurdities of diplomatic recognition. The subject is of universal interest, and some choice examples of what I mean have been happening in places not far from where I sit, such as the Palace of Westminster and St. James's Square.
To take the latter first, we have been having some pretty good television stuff with the weird happenings at the Libyan "People's Bureau' at 5 St. James's Square, not far from such civilized and unexciting institutions as Chatham House (the Royal equivalent of the Council on Foreign ...