[GROVES LESLIE]: (1896-1970) United States Army Corps of Engineers Lieutenant General. Groves oversaw the ...

[GROVES LESLIE]: (1896-1970) United States Army Corps of Engineers Lieutenant General. Groves oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during WWII. A very interesting content T.L.S., `Sherfield´, one page, 4to, London, 26th November 1968, sent to Groves by Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield (1904-1996) British Diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States 1953-56. Baron Sherfield reassures Leslie Groves on qualifications of new British Ambassador to the United States, stating in part `It is perfectly true that he made his name as a television interviewer, that he was a left-wing socialist, and that he edited the left-wing periodical ''The New Statesman''. But he was also a competent and successful Junior Minister in the Atlee Government. Since 1964, he has occupied the very demanding post of High Commissioner in India with ability and distinction.´, further adding `I consider that he has the qualities to make a good British Ambassador in Washington. There are very few people whose past sayings or writings will stand up to really close scrutiny, and this applies particularly to a journalist or editor. I am sure that the new president is a big enough man to understand this..´ Folded. EX Major John Freeman (1915-2014) British Politician, Diplomat and Broadcaster. High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to India 1965-68. He was appointed British Ambassador to the United States 1969-71 under British Prime Minister Harold Wilson tenure. Freeman had refer to Nixon as ''A discredited and outmoded purveyor of the irrational and inactive'' whose defeat for the Republican nomination would be a ''victory for decency''.