AMBASSADORIAL INTELLIGENCE
SIR ROGER MAKINS'S successor in Washington, Sir Harold Caccia, is a contrasting figure. Whereas Makins has served much of his career in Washington and has an American wife (the daughter of the donor of the Davis Cup), Caccia (pronounced Catcher) has made only fleeting visits there. . . . Where the one is tall and gangling, the other is small and collected. Where Makins is gregarious, Caccia yearns for the solitary ptrsuits. . . . —Pendennis in the Observer, July 22.
SIR ROGER WILL, I expect, be glad to get back from our Embassy in Washington. He is by inclination a back-room boy . . . and he often found the razzle-dazzle of the Washington round somewhat discon- certing. . . . This aspect of public life should hold no terrors for Sir Roger's successor at Washington, Sir Harold Caccia (pronounced Catchier). With his bubbling charm and total lack of stilting self- consciousness he should be a natural television star.
—Atticus in the Sunday Times, July 22.
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