Oliphant, Lancelot, Sir, 1881-1965
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Name (Hebrew)
אוליפנט, לנסלוט, 1881-1965
Name (Latin)
Oliphant, Lancelot, Sir, 1881-1965
Date of birth
1881
Date of death
1965
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q6483629
Sources of Information
- The Author's An ambassador in bonds, 1947.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography :
Wikipedia description:
Sir Lancelot Oliphant, KCMG, CB (8 October 1881 – 2 October 1965) was a British diplomat, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium, Minister-Plenipotentiary to Luxembourg and Director General of the Foreign Office. His decision that Britain would neither join nor fund a joint partnership with Saudi Arabia to explore for oil, thus forcing the Saudis to cooperate with the United States, left him with the unwanted sobriquet The diplomat who said 'No' to Saudi oil.
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