ABSTRACT
Although Younger had anticipated that Herbert Morrison’s appointment as Foreign Secretary would reduce his work load, he found that, in the event, he was working as hard as ever. So much so, in fact, that it was to be six weeks before he wrote the next entry in his diary, which is dated 13 May 1951. The intervening period had seen two significant developments on the British political scene: the death of Ernest Bevin and the resignations of Aneurin Bevan, Harold Wilson and John Freeman.1
