Sir Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, this month's president of the U.N. Security Council, is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), greying (50 years), well-tailored and crisply spoken. He is also a top man in the British Foreign Office hierarchy and a solid man in his country's squirearchy.
An Old Etonian who won a first class in modern history at Oxford, Sir Gladwyn has a Tudor manor house (Bramfield Hall) in Suffolk, built about 1550 and, as he says, "modernized in 1790." His wife Cynthia is a daughter of the late Sir Saxton Noble. His son Miles is now at Oxford. His daughters, Vanessa...
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