Britain and the Commonwealth

Appointed in 1938 to the British Colonial Office, John Chadwick ended his Whitehall career as Undersecretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He served as a diplomat in Canada and the Irish Republic and was attached to British delegations to the United Nations and NATO. Since 1966, he has been first director of the Commonwealth Foundation, an international trust charged with strengthening professional links throughout the Commonwealth. Mr. Chadwick is the author of New foundland— Island into Province (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1967), and A Decade of the Commonwealth, 1955–64 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1966), among other books, as well as numerous magazine articles.