\"Ambassador to the Soviet Union\" William Hayter Signed 3X5 Card COA For Sale

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Sir William Goodenough HayterKCMG(1August 1906 – 28 March 1995) was a British diplomat,Ambassadorto the Soviet Unionfrom 1953 to 1957, laterWardenofNew College, Oxford, andauthor. Born atOxford, Hayter was the son of Sir WilliamGoodenough Hayter (1869–1924), a judge inEgyptandan adviser to the Egyptian government, and his wife, Alethea Slessor, daughterof a Hampshire clergyman, the Rev. John Henry Slessor,rectorofHeadbourne Worthy.[1]His sistersPriscilla Napier(1908–1998) andAlethea Hayter(1911–2006) both went on to become writers.Through his mother, he was a cousin ofMarshal of the Royal AirForceSir John Slessor.Hayterwas educated (like his father) atWinchester CollegeandNew College, Oxford, wherehe was the college\'s senior classical scholar. At Winchester, he became\'prefect of hall\' (or head boy) and his contemporaries includedJohn Sparrow,Richard Crossman,William EmpsonandRichard Wilberforce. Hewas at New College withHugh Gaitskell,Douglas JayandHerbert Hart, but achieved only a Second inModsand anotherinGreats. However, he wasawarded a Laming Travelling Fellowship atQueen\'s College, Oxford,which meant spending nine months learning modern languages overseas. French andGerman were then both compulsory languages for entrants to theDiplomatic Service, so hespent the nine months in Paris andVienna. He was then briefly in residence at Queen\'s beforesitting theForeign Officeentranceexamination in 1930. He came third, behindFrank Roberts(laterBritish Ambassador in Moscow) but ahead ofDuncan Sandys. On 16 October 1930, Hayter was appointedaThird Secretaryinthe Diplomatic Service.[5]His first year at the ForeignOffice was spent in itsLeague of Nationsand Western Department. His next postwas inVienna, from October 1931, where he cultivated the city\'s highsociety. From April 1934 to January 1937 he was in Moscow, whereStalinwas beginning his purges. He travelled widely intheSoviet Union, visitingtheUkraineand theCrimea. He went on a trip to the Caucasus with the Germanambassador,CountSchulenberg, later executed for taking part in the20 July plotto killHitler.In October 1935, he was promotedSecond Secretary.Moscowwas followed by another year in the League of Nations department, and he made avisit to Spain during theSpanish civil war. In October 1938 Hayter was sent out to theBritish embassy in China, then accredited to the government ofChiang Kai-shekat war with Japan. In December 1940 hewas glad to be posted to Washington as First Secretary. Before long, hiscolleagues in China wereinternedby the Japanese. He arrivedjust before the attack onPearl Harborand had the task of reporting it to London.He was soon working closely with theState Departmentandthe American military.InMay 1944, Hayter returned to the Foreign Office in London; he worked in severalpolitical departments, then in February 1948 was promoted an assistantunder-secretary of state. He attended thePotsdam Conferenceassecretary to the British delegation and for three years chaired theJointIntelligence Committeeof the chiefs of staff.InDecember 1949 he went to Paris as British minister. He was generally scepticalabout the prospect of Britain\'s joining theEuropean Coal and SteelCommunity, but saw that European collaboration was in Britishinterests.InOctober 1953, aged forty-six, and shortly after the death of Stalin, Hayter wasappointed ambassador in Moscow, remaining a little over three years untilFebruary 1957; this period was later seen as the high point of his career. Hetook advantage of the new accessibility of the Soviet leadership and proposedtoAnthony EdenthatNikolai BulganinandNikita Khrushchevshould be invited to visit Britain.Eden agreed, the Soviet leaders accepted, and Hayter travelled with them. Oneblot on his time in Moscow was the (subsequent) exposure of the spyJohn Vassall, but an inquiry cleared Hayter of negligence. Thelast year of his mission in Moscow was dominated by theHungarian Revolution of1956and the Soviet invasion which followed it, and bytheSuez Crisis, when British and French intentions in Egypt werekept from Hayter and he felt that events hindered the chance of the Sovietswithdrawing from Hungary. The Soviets threatened the British over Suez, raisingthe possibility that they might intervene with rockets, and Hayter made astrong reply.In1957, he returned to the Foreign Office in London as political deputyunder-secretary of state. A year later, he was offered the headship of his oldOxford college. Disillusioned over Suez, and believing his diplomatic careerhad an uncertain future, he resigned from the diplomatic service to accept hiselection as Warden ofNew College, Oxford, fromtheMichaelmas termof1958.AtNew College, Hayter took a keen interest in the undergraduates and took on theduties of tutor for admissions. Having no role in teaching or research, he didnot seek to be active in the affairs of thewider universitybeyondhis college. However, he wrote several books about diplomacy and Russia, and anautobiography. In 1976, he retired to the village ofStanton St John, near Oxford, and continued to write.He was anHonorary Fellowof New College until his death at StantonSt John on 28 March 1995.In1959, theUniversity GrantsCommitteeappointed Hayter Chairman of the Sub-Committee onOriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies which it set up to reviewdevelopments in these fields since the Scarbrough Report was published in 1947.Working between January 1960 and May 1961, the Sub-Committee visited over tenuniversities in the UK as well as twelve in North America. The final report,usually referred to as the Hayter Report, recommended a significant expansionof research and teaching related to Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa to reflectchanges in the world order. Impressed by thearea studiesmodel the Sub-Committee saw in the US, itargued that: the main expansion in these studies should be in departments ofhistory, geography, economics and social science rather than in the languagedepartments, though linguistic training remained important; that there shouldbe a better balance between linguistic and non-linguistic studies; and thatmodern studies should receive greater emphasis compared to classical studiesthan had hitherto been the case. It suggested significant funding should beprovided for a period of ten years to expand provision as it had recommended.The findings of the Hayter Report were largely accepted and acted upon. It ledto a significant expansion of provision in these areas, including theestablishment of several new centres across the UK.Hayterwas charming and able, but few found real warmth in him. A different side wasevident when Sir William was appointed Chairman of the Stanton St John of theSDP. He hosted events such as addresses by Dr David Owen, on at least twooccasions, with great warmth and was held in great regard by his team includinghis Secretary Ben Beaumont. Lady Hayter played a full part in those activities.While still at school he had lost belief in Christianity, but he kept anaffection for theChurch of England.[1]