1940BiddleCrop Published 12 December 2017 at 554 × 340 in Brendan Bracken: “Winston’s Faithful Chela” / Holding forth, London, 1941: Bracken lectures Dutch diplomat Eelco van Kleffens. Charles de Gaulle, seemingly oblivious, chats with U.S. Ambassador to Holland Tony Biddle. (Wikimedia Commons) Share this article: