Obituary: Sir Harold Beeley

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 2, 2001| Author: John Longrigg | Copyright information

HAROLD BEELEY's reputation, and the high esteem in which his colleagues in Britain and abroad held him, rests mainly on his role as one of the most influential creators and practitioners of British policy in the Middle East during the thirty-odd years after the end of the Second World War. He recognised, perhaps earlier than others, that a romantic notion of desert hawks and black tents was an unreliable basis for policy; and was delighted when a well-known Arabist of the old school was heard...

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