Harald Juell

[1] He was born in Arendal, the son of Christian Fredrik Iuell (1858–1922) and Mathilde Fredrikke Augusta Hoyer (1864-1937).

He studied at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales and at the Faculté de Droit in Paris from 1916 to 1918.

In 1932 he returned to the foreign service and became secretary of the Norwegian delegation which negotiated trade treaty with the United Kingdom.

[2] In addition he spent some time working to find the facts surrounding the death of writer and war correspondent Nordahl Grieg.

[2] In their book review, newspaper Verdens Gang praised the effort of telling relevant stories from the war, but added that the tone and style was too dry and mundane.