Portraits and Appreciations
Viscount Edgar Vincent D'Abernon
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Portraits and Appreciations
Viscount Edgar Vincent D'Abernon
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Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, (19 August 1857 – 1 November 1941) was one of the foremost interwar British politicians, also a diplomat, art collector and author. He was appointed ambassador to Germany between 1920 and 1925 and was a leading figure in rehabilitating Germany and subsequently championing the policy of appeasement.Contains 24 appreciations of people: The Earl of Cromer, The Marquess Curzon, D. Lloyd George, The Earl of Balfour, J. Ramsay MacDonald, Winston Churchill, The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Sir Austen Chamberlain, The Earl of Birkenhead, 'The Souls', Ambrose McEvoy, John Singer Sargent, Raymond Poincaré, Aristide Briand, General Weygand, Gustav Stresemann., Carl von Schubert, K. Joseph Wirth, General von Seeckt, Ago von Maltzan. Hugo Stinnes, Walter Rathenau, and Pilsudski. There are also essays on The French Character and The German Character. In Appreciations he endeavours to outline the essential characteristics of the French and German peoples—"our two most powerful neighbours".