Sir Nicolas Cheetham KCMG (8 October 1910 – 14 January 2002) was a British diplomat and writer.
He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1934[1] and served at Athens, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Vienna.
In 1948 Cheetham, in charge of the Allied Control Commission in Vienna, attended a meeting of the Anglo-Russian Society to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Red Army.
Afterwards, in answer to a question in the House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, said that the Government fully endorsed Cheetham's action.
[2] (Cheetham's obituary in The Daily Telegraph recalled that "he attracted attention with another walkout from a party, when President Nkrumah of Ghana called Britain 'a colonialist oppressor'.