Ronald Arthur Burroughs CMG (4 June 1917 – 24 May 1980) was a British diplomat who served as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Algeria between 1971 and 1973.
[3] In the book Parris states that in ‘diplomatic circles The Spanish Ambassador’s Suitcase despatch is by impute probably the greatest funny of them all’.
[1] Burroughs was appointed First Secretary at the British Embassy in Cairo, a position he held between 1950 and 1953 before returning to London where he worked at the Foreign Office until 1955.
[1] He spent one year at The Canadian National Defence College before his appointment as First Secretary in Vienna, between 1956 and 1959, and was subsequently a Counsellor at the Foreign Office between 1959 and 1962.
[3] In the book Parris states that in ‘diplomatic circles The Spanish Ambassador’s Suitcase despatch is by impute probably the greatest funny of them all’.