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Sir Albert Thomas (Archie) Lamb KBE CMG DFC (born 23 October 1921) is a British former ambassador and a writer. He served as British ambassador to Kuwait from 1974 to 1977, and to Norway from 1978 to 1980. ==Career== Albert Thomas Lamb was born in Britain on 23 October 1921, the son of R. S. Lamb and Violet Lamb (née Haynes). He was educated in Swansea at the Bishop Gore School. Lamb joined the Foreign Office in 1938. On the outbreak of World War II in 1939 he volunteered for the Royal Air Force, but was not called for service until 1941. He did pilot training in Southern Rhodesia; on his way back to Britain in SS ''Oronsay'' his ship was torpedoed and he spent nine days in a lifeboat before being rescued. He flew combat missions in Hurricanes and Typhoons and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war Lamb returned to the Foreign Office and served at Rome, Genoa and Bucharest. He then studied Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies 1955–57 and subsequently served in Bahrain, as consul in Kuwait〔(The London Gazette, 19 March 1965 )〕 and as political agent in Abu Dhabi. He served at the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 1965–74, rising to assistant under-secretary, before being appointed ambassador to Kuwait 1974–77〔(The London Gazette, 1 October 1974 )〕 and to Norway 1978–80.〔(The London Gazette, 28 February 1978 )〕 Lamb found the Norwegian political establishment insular and unsympathetic to their NATO partners, who at the height of the Cold War, were concerned about Norway's vulnerable border with the Soviet Union. In his last diplomatic dispatch, Lamb says of the Norwegians "...you demand your allies' full support but restrict their ability to give it... 'All for Norway' is the Royal motto of the The King of Norway; it sums up the Norwegian interpretation of the North Atlantic Alliance".〔Paris, Matthew and Bryson, Andrew (2013), ''(The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the Diplomatic Bag )'', Penguin Books, 〕 After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, he became a director of the nationalised companies British National Oil Corporation (BNOC), later privatised as Britoil, and British Shipbuilders. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Archie Lamb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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